WHO SAYS ROWLEY WILL BE HERE NEXT YEAR ANYWAY ?????



AGREE WITH STE ODY POSTED ON OTHER TOPIC ....THINK TONY BENSON MYSELF ..... WAS HE REALLY GIVEN A FAIR CRACK OF THE WIP LAST TIME ROUND ?????

BAD TIME TO ANNOUNCE ANYTHING I. M. O , SHOULD OF LEFT IT TILL AFTER THE PLAYOFFS ... BUT DONT WE ALWAYS DO THINGS AT THE WRONG MOMENT ?

Well the set up at the LSV means that we don't have any access to the secondary income that must surely play a big part at other clubs.

It's like when we once asked directions in Ireland:

Driving down a country lane, completely lost - spots a farmer type coming up the lane toward us. Winds the window down, and asks " 'scuse me. Could you tell us how to get to Ballyglunin?"

He scratches his chin thoughtfully then says "So - it's Ballyglunin you're after is it?...............well, if I was you I wouldn't start from here!!"

As Matt says , it isn't a case of the cost of playing at the LSV , it's the loss of income that is the problem

Advertising , concession sales , less corporate profit combined with higher cost to corporate customers , loss of merchandise sales due to cost of space rental

All these things add up to a sizeable ( 100 K plus ) loss of income per season since moving into the LSV

Combine that with a disasterous 1 st season , more TV games on Thursday nights with the associated lower attendances , lower profile opposition since SL expanded to 14 ( similar situation next year with the loss of Widnes ) and you're over 200 K down on where we were 3/4 years ago , so where do we find £ 200,000 extra a year ?

1,200 fans at £ 10 per head for 14 home games with associated extra sales of merchandise ,LISA and Lottery and you've just about broke even and looking at a max salary cap spend and all the preferred coaches and junior projects

And the conclusion i come to is,its always someone elses fault.

Not someones elses fault jc , just that as your circumstances change , you have to change with them , we didn't/haven't , now we have to , just that we have less time , resources and general appeal to help us now , but it still has to be done