That goes without saying and is the same for any business, sporting or not. In fact its the same for you, only more so, you need the bums on seats and sale of club merchandise as its your only source of income, where as Saints will have gate receipts, merchandise, AND the income that the stadium itself can generate such as already mentioned function rooms & bars, plus semi finals, international matches, and the biggy the naming rights to the stadium.

The money for the stadium is there already, from the sale of KR, the Council and grants from the NWDA, (money from the Council and the NWDA is NOT a loan but grants, this does not have to be paid back and does not give either body any ownership or rights to the stadium)

From were i live the Widnes ground is only about a 50 minute walk and less than a 10 minute drive,though Saints could have handled this better and should put free transport on.

Saints have said they will do, alongside offers on season tickets that are tied to the season at Widnes and subsequent years too.

I for one am ecstatic at this news. Best news for many a year at Saints.

It makes sense that Saints are recruiting heavily for next season, they need to be successful to ensure the fans travel to Widnes.

KR is a disgrace & I really hope the new stadium is finally on the way.

Personally im very pleased saints are moving to a modern staduim. If Salford get their finger out, all Lancs clubs will have good staduims, its just yorkshire thats letting RL down

Solution
Bradford - Sell odsal and buy into Valley Parade
Leeds - Build a roof over the away end!
Hull FC - No probs there
HKR - build an away end!
Cas - Merge with wakey
Wakefield - Same as above

See easy!

100% True, or just tell all the Yorkshire clubs to move to the Lancs it would be even better

No, Saints have no council money to fund the building of the stadium. The Council ultimately will be putting £6 million into the project, the NWDA £4 million, but that is for remediation works, such as cleansing the site (it was a chemical/glass works) and setting up things like the roundabout to the ground (which is now almost complete) and the footbridge, along with upgrading parking facilities in the nearby multistoreys for match days. Saints are financing the building of the Saints stadium through the sale of Knowsley Road and the investment of the directors. The stadium will be ours to use and abuse as we wish. Tesco is funding its own build and their money has absolutely nothing to do with us.

The stadium will be a financial killer for the directors for years to come. They will no doubt have loans to pay on the financing. But at least their money will be going into something that will, over time, be a money raiser and not a money drainer, as is the case with Knowsley Road.

I sense alot of Jealous Wigan fans reading this



A brand new stadium 100% owned by the club is credit to St Helens















If Dave Wheelan wants his pitch again there might be 3 clubs playing at Widnes next year

Lets be honest we wont ever be kicked out of the DW because we are the only club in there that is guaranteed to bring in money for years to come



Im happy for Saints to get the new ground, its great for rugby league in GB. I dont see why anyone even rival clubs would be against it, if they pay for it themselves they will have to earn it over years. If its helped by council funding then good luck to them they wont be the first or last to get that.

Not for 50 years he won't



Good news for saints this, but they will need to encourage fans to travel with free transport or at least make it easy for fans to get to Widnes. The main thing, next season for saints, is to hold on to as many regulars as possible because once people stop attending it's sometimes difficult getting them back. Good luck to them I'm sure is worth it.

the saints wire game is at goodison park, there looking at staging the saints wigan game at the reebok, and we will be playing at liegh for the smaler games