www.thisishullandeastriding.co.u ... story.html Looks as though the current directors at Hull are getting tired of paying for the club, which is continuing to make a loss.Worrying times.

www.thisishullandeastriding.co.u ... story.html Looks as though the current directors at Hull are getting tired of paying for the club, which is continuing to make a loss.Worrying times.

I wander how much of this is down to them signing Willie Mason last year.

Who else are about to announce they're on the verge of going pop?

Cast your mind back to clubs that have sold players during the season and you will not be too far away.

This is scary, if the brown stuff hits the fan at KR how many more clubs will come out of the woodwork? And then we are faced with a major restructuring of our beloved game not by choice but sheer necessity .

There have been rumours of positive news from our 'friends' on the Barton Stretch for a couple of weeks now. I hope that this is the case and they get some backing

It was meant as a rhetorical question

If Hudgell does walk away, how many more (Wilkinson, Hughes, etc) will follow? And what would that mean for SL?

Doing some quick sums from the figures on the attendances thread, they had ~100,000 total home attendance, so that must have pulled in £1m - £2m in gate/season tickets, plus another £1.125m from Sky - total revenue of around £2.5m? Player's wages (including NI contributions which don't count towards the cap) are about £2m, which leaves them with a petty £0.5m to cover everything else if they want to spend at the full cap (our total revenue is £6m, so we spend £4m on non-player costs, though that includes paying the loans to cover building the stadium + extension).

Basically, they have to stop spending at the full cap, it's not viable. It's a poor place to be in, and means they aren't likely to do as well as clubs who can reach the cap, but surely it's better to accept that and put together a good team that will do okay rather than a great team that might win a trophy in the few years before you go bust.

They have just started building the new North Stand at the end of the ground I wonder what will happen to it now ?

I hope they're not spending the full salary cap, they finished 10th in the league.

Shame that so many clubs seem to be having financial difficulties, but it makes you realise just how lucky we are to be in a secure position aided by a generous benefactor who actually supports the club.

stop spending to the cap

season tickets go up

and sell taylor to hudderfield

Never understood why any club spends more than they can afford. Seems simple common sense has no place in our sport.

Common sense has no place in everyday life, too.
Too many people spending above their means, so they go into debt.

Stupid spending (unfortunately) is all around us.