i think they have a range of tickets in one of the boxes that are £100,000 each... people seem to buy them sometimes... but never actually go the game....

And again Crusaders will be this time as well as last year?
In what way were we not ready? Don't get me wrong we have improved a lot over the past few years off the field but where we 'in' the top 14 clubs in 2007? Without a doubt!

Going from one sponsor to about ten (& still growing) winning NRC, a full review of club the year before that made sure it was now fully cost effective etc etc.

Which all apply to Batley as well so where has the other £975,000 of profit for Widnes come from?


At the end of the day Widnes is a village between St Helens and Warrington and would bring nothing to Super League. If Crusaders do fold then the number of Super League teams should drop to 13 this year and 12 the year after when either Wakefield or Castleford should be kicked out (decide that by toss of a coin as they are as useless as each other).

Not sure that shows anything. I think the accounts will, whenever they are released.

Quote: Ian 77 Redux "Not sure that shows anything. I think the accounts will, whenever they are released.'" A simple summary/explanation of Widnes' performance has been slipped into this worrying release on the Batley official website batleybulldogs.co.uk/index.php?o ... s-players-

Quote: Ian 77 Redux "Not sure that shows anything. I think the accounts will, whenever they are released.'" A simple summary/explanation of Widnes' performance has been slipped into this worrying release on the Batley official website batleybulldogs.co.uk/index.php?o ... s-players-

[iApart from Widnes who made £1 million profit because the owner put £2 million into the Club I doubt there will be many if any who have declared a profit and the Widnes situation is hardly an achievement. We regrettably do not have a person who can put £2 million into the Club but we do know that we can compete with Clubs in our League both on and off the field.[/i

Widnes lost almost £1M in 2008 and posted a £1M profit in 2009 (despite losing 600 punters a match). The figures for 2009 were 'massaged' with the help of O'Connor to post a ridiculous profit. If you take his £2M input out of the equation, they made another £1M loss in 2009.

It'll probably fool the RFL though.

And you belive that whilst the same year Batley who won nothing and no playoff's made a profit? He's talking out his anus!

To be fair if Steve O'Connor has put that level of investment in then that is very encouraging.

Calm down J20, you don't know Batleys wage bill, or the income from Bars etc

And neither would he know our books so why state in a press release?

Thats was just for the 'books', which is the point the Batley Chairman was making. You would 'lend' the club money, if you knew that there was at least 3 years of SKY monies plus increased income to roll in. Then he just reclaims his 'investment' and some.

..and J20 everyone knows, there is no way in the world you can make a one million pound profit playing in the championship.

There is no way in the world we'd be 1million worse off than Batley in 2009!

errr, Batley won the Northern Rail Cup mate. Suppose you've erased that memory from your mind.