Welcome back Steve.
Top line is vanity bottom line sanity - run anything on that and you wont go far wrong(provided you get the cash in)
We must grow top line to have any chance of improving bottom line, and paying spectators have a great role to play in doing that.
We will be unveiling our 2015 season ticket details very, very soon - 3500 average as a min next season

So your plan/hope is for other clubs to ' implode ' /lower their incomes so that Leigh can compete? ,wonderful , fantastic businessplan that is

To re-establish itself ( if we ever have been ' established ' ,I'd beg to differ ) needs a threefold increase in the home support base, that wont happen overnight or overyear, until we see that start to happen ( irrelivant to our on field performances ) we are light years behind being ready

3,500 averages based on what? , home fans? ,or the visits of Bradford and Wakefield?

Good to see you back anyway, your positivity is always a great motivator to me

Neil

So Bradford,Wakey and London it is then

You need to get back to ripping into Smokey

Johhny Walker has just scored on his début in the Reserves.

Any score updates Mish ?

Won 62-24

Wow that is impressive

Agree Frank another great win, well done lads.

He sounds like you from years gone by

I think Fax are trying to sneak in the back door. Finish 2nd this season, make the middle 8 next as Sheffield look like their time could be over and Fev could face financial ramifications of the loonies running the asylum, then try and grow from there knowing that the last place in the top 4 in the Championship is well up for grabs and if they can make that it could be a good platform.

I hope you didn't mind me having an opinion on this Starbug.

I believe that Leigh's ability to build towards and survive at the highest level will be determined by how the overall business develops and is managed in direct comparison to its closest rivals (in a financial sense). Turnstile revenue will be one part of a complex equation.

To state the obvious - attendances need to increase and are very important but will shortly be a much lower proportion of our total income - noting the 5 fold increase in Sky money from next year and hopefully coupled with growth in all the other areas of our business.

In my view our chances of moving forward will be highly dependant on our club being able to punch above its weight (in a business management sense) in next years middle 8 group, in comparison to our rivals. Most of these rivals will have a bigger overall financial pot to work with than us - fact.

My point was that those SL clubs coming into the middle 8 will potentially come with baggage that will hopefully weigh them down giving us a chance to further close the gap. We can also anticipate that the gap will be further closed by our club by going full time.

The main point of my previous post was to suggest that we shall never have a better chance to realise the dream of a sustainable business competing at the highest level. The only other option is to find a mega-millionaire backer who can be trusted to deliver a sustainable future for our club.

In my opinion - if we believe the only way forward is a threefold increase in attendances within the next year or so then, if we are being honest with ourselves, we may as well throw in towel now.

Sounds like we should just pack in now, Neil-stop wasting everyone's time before the inevitable financial implosion causes the LSV and everything with it to tumble into a bottomless pit of doom to the centre of the earth.

best hiding under our duvets until it's all over.

//p.