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| Quote: maurice "See I dont call it begging, I call it a reality of sport that external funding is required and as we build revenues that external funding may be greater or not required at all.
A board of shareholders being asked to fund £100k every year is nothing in the world of sport, we cannot survive on gates and if every other penny is begging in your opinion then beg we must. I do not call sponsorship, acquiring shares or a couple of quid a week on the Lifeline as begging but others obviously do.
We have a hole to fill then must attract those willing and able to come onboard to create the bright future we have before us.'"
We'll just have to agree to disagree
Sponsorship has to pay for itself , and Lifeline is a gamble , in that case they aren't donations |
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| Quote: Starbug "I'd suggest it is stupidity to constantly be ' begging ' for money , because eventually everybody says No , as long as have to ' Beg ' we are not anywhere near a SL club
So to suggest we accept that we will always have to ' Beg ' is to accept we are nothing and never will be anything but a small struggling RL club in a small town in W1g4n'"
Surely its not possible for this club to become self sufficient over night? |
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| Quote: j.c "Surely its not possible for this club to become self sufficient over night?'"
Not saying it is John , but every day you spend not aiming to become self sustaining is another day you won't be |
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| Quote: Starbug "We'll just have to agree to disagree '"
I know, Pal, but we both luv the buggers don't we. |
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| Quote: j.c "Surely its not possible for this club to become self sufficient over night?'"
Of course it is. You cut your costs below your income streams. Simples. However, if you want to compete in this league, then you have to increase your income streams to cover your increased costs ie higher salaries. That is why we are currently in the s4it. |
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| Quote: THECherry&Whites "Of course it is. You cut your costs below your income streams. Simples. However, if you want to compete in this league, then you have to increase your income streams to cover your increased costs ie higher salaries. That is why we are currently in the s4it.'"
Surely the people who are now prepared to pump thousands into the club have long tem visions and are not putting money in just to keep us going?.
At the same time surely its important that we are competing with fev and Fax nd not York and hunslet?. |
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| Quote: maurice "See I dont call it begging, I call it a reality of sport that external funding is required and as we build revenues that external funding may be greater or not required at all.
A board of shareholders being asked to fund £100k every year is nothing in the world of sport, we cannot survive on gates and if every other penny is begging in your opinion then beg we must. I do not call sponsorship, acquiring shares or a couple of quid a week on the Lifeline as begging but others obviously do.
We have a hole to fill then must attract those willing and able to come onboard to create the bright future we have before us.'"
As it appears to be share holders rather than stake holdrs who are going to be running the club,much the same as its always been,when these people get bored,lax tired or generaly forego there duties to the club will there be safeguards in place to get these people out the way before the club starts going backwards again?. |
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| Quote: j.c "Surely the people who are now prepared to pump thousands into the club have long tem visions and are not putting money in just to keep us going?.
At the same time surely its important that we are competing with fev and Fax nd not York and hunslet?.[/quote]
...but that is reality! Our income streams/costs dictate that we can not offer the contracts that Fax and Fev can offer. If we want to compete with teams like this we have to be inovative and increase the levels of income that allow us to offer the contracts that these can offer.
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| Quote: THECherry&Whites "
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| Quote: THECherry&Whites "
This is one of the things i dont understand,we hire a stadium like fax,presumably with the same drawbacks and our gates are around 500 more avg than fev,so why do we have 100k or more of a short fall than these clubs/
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| Quote: j.c "
Or even Sheffield John ?
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Well were slightly cheaper.. Correct? Do fax earn from beer and food sales were LSV earn ? Who sponsors fax?
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| Quote: Starbug "
I think without doubt Sheffield have got an amazing deal at BL.
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| Quote: j.c "
Compare the two stadiums. The Shay and LSV are completly different. LSV cost £12m to build, it has undersoil heating, state of the art draiinage system and the same pitch that The Emirates and Wembley have. Someone has to pay for that. I know we all have a go at WMBC but I bet, even at the current rates the club pay for hiring the stadium, we only pay a small percentage of the going rate for such a facility......and we want a reduction to help the clubs current plight.
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Now I may have this wrong but the stadium cost WMBC nothing except land deals, therefore the costs are the maintenance/current running costs with the site providing varies health/education facilities that were located elsewhere previously.
Bring Cheshire Catering in and let LRLFC run the stadium and Leigh East their facilities.
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