how anybody can say such utter botty wash about trevor is beyond me. No trevor . . . .No club . . . End of!! . What do you expect him to do ? . We lost probably 50 to 60 grand last night . Of which makes matters a whole lot worse than before the game . Thank your lucky stars he is with us . I know trevor and if anybody can sort this . . He sure will trust me on that score

Well I am not treasurer but currently there are 367 members so at £5 per month that's just over £20k per annum.

Some members stump up more' but to really help our club if we could get membership up to 1500 then we could contribute £90k per annum which would be a great help.

It is at times like these that those fans who can afford too and are not members should join.

More members better players. Good results bring better attendances. QED.

The weird thing when looking at slary limits etc, this is exactly what a club must budget for to satisfy the RFL, otherwise you end up in a situation like happened in 2010 and got us this year with the point deduction.

In the past the club has been able to ' gamble ' on prize money , extra tickets sales via making NRC knock out/ play off matches because there was somebody willing to make up the shortfall if we didn't

That has now changed

But ultimately it is our fan base that decides where our club stands financially

The aim has to be to get to a break even figure without any donations

Not easy , but if you don't try , to don't succeed

Well, you might think that would the sensible thing to do, but there are problems.
How do you decide what your 'guaranteed' income is? If the team makes a losing start and crowds go down...how do you budget for that? The 'guaranteed' income could be so low that if you budget with that, you cant afford the team needed to be competitive and the spiral is downwards.

Second, you cant assume that your expenditure is fixed for the year. Crowds go up and down. This year, for example, the winning bonus payments are larger because the team did really well. Trevor Barton stated that they budget for losing 5 games in the league, which would seem reasonable at the beginning of the season.

Its a really tough commercial nut to crack and getting it wrong either way can be costly.

Commercially your right Paul but on the salary cap 'front' if your projected income isn't going to happen because of a variety of reasons - loss of form etc... then if you inform the RFL then they understand or if your reasons are valid then, like us last year they are more lenient.