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I'm pretty sure I've heard of football club treating their players as assests, so I suppose a rugby club would do the same when you've outlayed that much money on a transfer fee.

its not really a lot considering that will include what is it £1.2m from Sky, leaving wigan only turning over £3.3m in Merchandising, Ticket Sales, Hospitality, concessions etc. not a lot really over the course of a season. using round figures if Wigan are selling 15k tickets 13 times a season at an average of say £12 a time (to include discounted tickets, students, children, special offers etc) would give Wigan £2.4m which would leave them only turning over £900k from Merchandising, corporate hospitality, Sponsorship, advertising, and match day concessions which seems very very low for a club of Wigan size.

Im not bragging but Leeds turnover a minimum of double that, why when there isnt a huge difference in attendances would Leeds turnover between £9.5m and £11.5m and Wigan less than half of that?

Does that come from services afforded by the ground, though? Do any other teams rent the pitch? Do you have confrence rooms like the HJ etc?

well yeah, but from the last leeds accounts i remember the rent from the Tykes being in the hundreds of thousands rather than the millions, and the conference suites etc cant account for £6/7million pounds a year.

As i say im intrigued about how that would be broken down because around a million i sponsorship, merchandising, corporate and concessions sales over a season would seem very very small

The Leeds accounts have been skewed by sales, they have sold carparking and some corporate stuff to the cricket over the last copuple of years, there was a long long thread on total rl and someone went through the leeds accounts from companies houise and about 4.5 million was a one off payment

very unlikely any of these figures are in the accounts, and a company having such a small turnover (in relative terms) would not even have to disclose turnover.

I always thought the accounts were for Leeds Rugby rather than just the Rhinos and it was difficult to extract accurate info for either club?

that really isnt the case, Leeds have turned over £9.8m in 2007 and £10.5m in 2008, all that included was a sale of fixed assets at only £1.5m. In 2009 the date changed from a up to 31st of dec to up to the 31st of Oct which was around the same again at £10.5m but for10months rather than 12 the previous year. There was a sale of the right to repurchase the freehold to the cricket ground which was sold for about £2.5m but that wasnt included in the turnover figure for those ten months (which was £10.5m with no fixed asset sales)

It was up until 07 i think it was when Carnegie was sold(given) to LMU, since then it has become owned by Caddick not by the rhinos, those accounts only apply to the rhinos, except for the money transferred between the two. Which i think was abotu £300k for rent paid to the Rhinos and about £250k in 'management charges' paid to Carnegie from the rhinos.

wigan arnt replacing mick hogan,

Merchandise has been very low until we opened a town centre retail shop earlier this season and used the Latics shop plus stalls on match days.

In addition Shirt sales will have been woeful, due to the club being unable to have them on sale prior to the Xmas period, plus having Mecca Bingo stuck on the front will have had an effect (I've never bought one).

Sponsorship, never had a penny of it whilst wearing JJB. I've been told that we will have brand new main sponsor for next season, lets hope we have obtained what we're worth - we're on Sky almost every week and appear in about 8 out of SKY's top ten viewed SL matches this season.

Food & Drink, don't see a penny. Whelan get's it all.

We pay the Stadium Company c10% of our gate receipts.


On the flip side, if a new pitch needs re-laying / seats need replacing / floodlight repairs..etc, we don't pay the thousands (and in some cases hundreds of thousands of pounds) to fix.

Does prize money received count?

I've been told that we will have brand new main sponsor for next season

I cant wait if thats true.