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| More bad news in the rugby league world.
After doing so well last season, this comes as a real shock.
Let's hope something or someone can help.
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| It's a massive risk going full time and then failing to make super league.
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| ran before they could walk, hindsight they should have remaind part time
similar to salford, a team in a football mad city who dont care about any other sport (apart from ice hockey in sheffield0, will always struggle for support and financial input
hope someone does come along and help them out
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| Well I hope the piece of sh*t investor who left them in this mess is happy.
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| Seriously, they went full time on gates of 300 playing on a university playing field! Are they surprised they couldn't afford it?
Then they release this press release saying they are working on building a new stadium! Jesus. Will this Mickey Mouse club ever learn - live within your means!!
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| Tip of the iceberg. Quite a few clubs in the lower leagues are in the brink and soon we'll end up with a smaller sport than we already have.
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24148_1315916334.jpg [quote="OFFTHECUFF":1xb0p6sn] Wish i could watch a team like Leigh. [/quote:1xb0p6sn]
[quote="Steve":1xb0p6sn] Dislike Leigh with a passion, but they are a million miles ahead of any other club in this league, a sad fact. [/quote:1xb0p6sn]:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_24148.jpg |
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| Quote: freddies wig "Seriously, they went full time on gates of 300 playing on a university playing field! Are they surprised they couldn't afford it?
Then they release this press release saying they are working on building a new stadium! Jesus. Will this Mickey Mouse club ever learn - live within your means!!'"
This was basically my reaction too.
Crowds of 400 watching a team playing out of a school field is not the basis of a Full Time club.
It just doesn't add up.
Good luck to the Eagles and their fans, I hope they find an answer to their problems.
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| Quote: rollin thunder "It's a massive risk going full time and then failing to make super league.'"
Spot on. Give it one season at full time if that doesn't get you promotion go back to being part time, unless to have a rich backer, ie Leigh and London.
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| Quote: Huddersfield1895 "Spot on. Give it one season at full time if that doesn't get you promotion go back to being part time, unless to have a rich backer, ie Leigh and London.'"
Except they had a rich backer, Leigh and London could find themselves in a similar situation if the backer the pulls out
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| The format of the Middle 8's is part of the problem, and the same for Bradford. How can you budget for the season ahead when the big drop in income comes before it ends? It's one thing budgeting for the year ahead in the close-season, but it's ludicrous that a team is faced with losing half a million pounds half way through. The only way to sustain it is to budget for the loss, but then how do you recruit the talent?
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| Quote: Slugger McBatt "The format of the Middle 8's is part of the problem, and the same for Bradford. How can you budget for the season ahead when the big drop in income comes before it ends? It's one thing budgeting for the year ahead in the close-season, but it's ludicrous that a team is faced with losing half a million pounds half way through. The only way to sustain it is to budget for the loss, but then how do you recruit the talent?'"
Exactly. The best option for the Bulls now, which looks like being enacted, is a focus on a much cheaper much smaller more affordable squad but with a core of quality (Chisholm, obrien, sidlow, Moss, welham, pryce(?)) with some championship quality players (with champ wages) and a heavy reliance on the academy program which is starting to bear fruit again at odsal, so this year's 4 or 5 Academy products (lumb, Ryan, mellow etc) could be added to by another 5 or 6 next season. So rather than this year's bloated 40 odd squad size we'll be running with about 26, at least 10 of which will be recent Academy products. So a much more realistic base to develop from than banking it all on going up.
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| Quote: ColD "Except they had a rich backer, Leigh and London could find themselves in a similar situation if the backer the pulls out'"
I would imagine that Leigh and London would soon revert to part time if they didn't have a rich backer.
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| I think we are going to see a lot more of this due to how championship clubs are funded (based on league position). If a club finishes a few places lower than expected (like sheffield and bradford this year) they are going to be missing a big chunk of income and face financial difficulty.
This is not a sustainable funding set up for rugby league IMO, we haven't got a big que of clubs ready to replace them like in football.
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| Quote: Huddersfield1895 "I would imagine that Leigh and London would soon revert to part time if they didn't have a rich backer.'"
As would the Giants , possibly HKR and a few others
So your point being ?
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