I think he'd stop if someone actually offered to take him up on one.

To address two points; despite being a business, no SL club will ever post a profit remotely close to that of businesses with comparable turnover. Unfortunate, but true. In fact, I would speculate most SL Chairmen/Chief Execs would be delighted with covering operational costs, a modest profit would have them doing cartwheels.

The ground will increase your revenue streams exponentially. I wouldn't know where to begin in respect of speculating the corporate level of increase from Saints' matchday revenues.

I would imagine Saints marketing/BDM has been hammering local businesses, highlighting the scope and number of hospitality suites available to hire every day of the week. I would imagine they are going into Manchester and Liverpool, too, stating how cost effective they are in comparison to PL football clubs. Furthermore, I would imagine Saints have a licence to hold Civil ceremonies, opening them up to the wedding market, also. This is where owning your own stadium pays off; sweating the asset seven days a week, fifty two weeks a year.

For those guffawing at Saints' and Warrington's roof problems; neither are a financial issue. Both will be rectified at no cost due to contractual obligations by installers/manufacturers. KR was a money pit due to it's age, Saints' new place will be covered for a minimum ten or twelve years dependent on the contract being under dead or seal.

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Ask yourselves this; do you really think there are no maintenance costs factored into the lease agreement of the DW?

I would agree entirely with this, if saints break even year on year it will be fantastic. What we cannot do though is go on making losses year on year. Sporting clubs on general have been doing this for the last few years and sooner or later someone is going to pull the plug on it and when they do no club will be immune, no matter whether it is saints or man u.

10% of ticket sales...

Man City have just posted a annual loss of £200 million thats been written off by their owner! That is simply staggering! Manchester City must be the luckiest sporting club on earth!

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Is it though. I know at least a couple of the Wigan players were quite envious of the Saracens training complex when they trained there before the Challenge Cup final.

I think they were referring to teams in RL.

Looking increasingly like there won't be any more re-arranged Sunday games from May onwards.