For those not familiar with forecasting and planning, this is how it works:

1. Detail expenditure, from staffing to lights
2. Forecast income on worst case
3. Understand realistic shortfall
4. Plan to reduce/eliminate shortfall by generating income and targeting key departments/staff on income generation
5. Have the projected shortfall covered, if we increase income we dont need to use it - the best way to cover this is by buying shares, ie no directors loans.

If you operate the above then as income rises the club becomes self sufficient.
The low hanging fruit needs to be milked first and that folks is you and I. I suggested a £200 ticket to include a shirt and bar access - supporters club - 1000 taking that up would create a great future, make it easy £20 a month for 10 months starting October/September and make its members feel very, very special.

If its the person ive been told then he makes steve o'conner at widnes look skint, also he wants the current board out so as to bring in his own board and also wants wigan mbc to sell him the ground, its only what i ave been told

Yep we've all heard it and we've all heard who it is.but its still only a rumour.

This buying the ground bit has got me thinking. The ground is debt free ie built on grants and land proceeds, so with WMBC losing money on its upkeep doesn't it make sense for us to buy it for a knockdown price or FOC even if placed in a trust.
With the ground owned we become one hell of an attractive investment

Until the RL (or whoever the governing body is) re-evaluates the format of the game and realises the lack of promotion/relegation is unhealthy for the game, then I fear for the future of a number of Championship teams.

The greatest incentive to boosting crowds is to give clubs something to aim for and that surely is promotion.

Promoted teams may well struggle to bridge the gap and "yoyo" teams may resurface but surely this is better than stale fixture lists, congested with fixtures against deadwood clubs. If SL clubs had to take a cut in their Sky monies to afford parachute payments (or another means of avoiding yoyo clubs) then I think the game would benefit (subject to min. gound standards). Unless things change I fear for the game in the longer term.

Thats very refreshing coming from an SL fan. The problem is it will take the games demise for all the others to see the light. For our sport to strengthen the TV money needs to be shared out more evenly. Not all at once but over say 7 years. Make a plan that is very clear for this to give investors in the championship clubs something to chew on. Light at the end of the tunnel. The regional franchise scenario that people have put forward is one that I personall think would work. The 7 years given would have clauses and if you don't meet them you don't get a share or a franchise. This talk of not having a big enough player pool is rubbish in my view as no one knows how any promising amature would proform given the chance to be totaly full time professional. At the end of it all the way forward is for more of the TV money to trickle, no flood down to the lower leagues so that the difference in class is closed. Make clubs bring their grounds upto scratch in order to get the TV money and only let them use the TV money for players or coaching staff. Let the game provide the lions share of the wages and the clubs concentrate on providing the surroundings.

So who is this saviour people are talking about
Message boards are good for rumours so can we have a name

I believe Spartacus has been mentioned...........

Richard Branston

That could put us in a pickle

Bail Gates

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