The difference between finishing 4th and 5th is £500,000. The points lost, which was partially due to the injuries to senior pro's has put us in a very precarious position. You can't give players speculative contracts .
76030_1540929970.jpgJESUS WEPT HOW MANY TIMES?????
£20 a ticket and £15 on beer and merchandise.....so an away fan is worth £35. At best, 1,000 is the average away support split across 11 rounds and I am being really generous here, so Toronto, replacing say Wakefield will cost a SL club £35,000.
The minimum turnover of a SL club is £4,000,000 so Toronto instead of Widnes is worth less than 1% of a SL clubs turnover.
There are many valid reasons for and against expansion into America, but "AWAY FANS" isn't one of them. :d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_76030.jpg
Quote: Riverside Red "The difference between finishing 4th and 5th is £500,000. The points lost, which was partially due to the injuries to senior pro's has put us in a very precarious position. You can't give players speculative contracts .'"
...No, but you can let them play for the contracts! If we don't lose another game we're in the qualifiers. If we lose 1 more, then it'll be touch and go, but we have a pretty good +/- which should be 100+ over Leigh after the coming weekend.
If we can't offer guaranteed contracts, surely we can offer contracts dependent on where we finish.......it seems crass that we could be traveling to Barrow at the end of July and not know what our squad will look like for the following season until the final whistle?
If we fail to make the Qualifiers then I can see us as part-time from next season, because the frugal way in which we haven't offered contracts points to a dramatic reduction in funding either way....
Quote: linebacker53 "I thought Sheffield were very poor and to be honest I thought Broncos lacked a lot of shape in attack and let Sheffield score 3 soft tries, the one at the end was disgraceful and almost exactly the same as last 2 tries against Leigh. Our warm up lacked energy and I thought we looked uninterested. All 14 off contract players had letters last week to say they are free to talk to other clubs (12 played yesterday)...hardly motivating.'"
You do know that any player in the last year of his contract at any club in the UK gets that letter don't you?
It means absolutely nothing. Clubs are duty bound to send it out.
Several of those players have new deals agreed and several will never be offered a new deal even if they offered to play for £1 a week.
Quote: MonkeyLover "Several of those players have new deals agreed and several will never be offered a new deal even if they offered to play for £1 a week.'"
All those names seem to be good lads, but I am not aparty to behind the scenes.
For me retain if poss: Kear, Pitts, Spencer, Sammut, Battye, Cunningham, Dixon, Evans, Harrison
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HOW MANY TIMES?????
£20 a ticket and £15 on beer and merchandise.....so an away fan is worth £35. At best, 1,000 is the average away support split across 11 rounds and I am being really generous here, so Toronto, replacing say Wakefield will cost a SL club £35,000.
The minimum turnover of a SL club is £4,000,000 so Toronto instead of Widnes is worth less than 1% of a SL clubs turnover.
There are many valid reasons for and against expansion into America, but "AWAY FANS" isn't one of them. 
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