If Leeds do the build in the off-season it'll be the quickest stadium redevelopment in the history of construction. There's a host of other costs associated with any of these projects that will be a call on Leeds revenue resources, including financial, legal and project management expertise, along with the affect on to-day-to operations. Anybody who thinks a building project of the scale proposed won't affect revenue in a number of different ways is naive in the extreme. That's before the impact of public sector cuts might have on the implications on the grants for capital costs.

I don't know why you keep using the fact McDermott is not from overseas as some kind of comfort blanket. My assessment of McDermott is based on his SL coaching performance so far, not his nationality - underwhelming would be my description.

The fact of how Leeds youngster have done over the past few seasons against their peers is the best benchmark - again the word underwhelming springs to mind.

Apparantly 2010 was a freak year and all results from said season should be removed from the record books...

(or I just used the stats from 2009 and forgot to add the play off result)

Sorry meant the end of the 70's.
Right through the end of the 90's.

Why would the day to day operation of the club be affected by the rebuilding of southstand, it is nowhere near the offices or shops, which are based at the other side? Why would project Management, legal and financial expertise affect revenue? Im pretty sure that Paul Caddick with his near half a billion pound construction empire wont be struggling for project management expertise for a building project of this size.

As i said, the capital costs are ring-fenced as from new revenue streams and grants (the RFU rather than the public sector) which are being put in place purely to raise the funds for it.

Ahh, yes, judging him on his work with the cheapest squad in the league. Thats obviously a good indicator.

you mean how the likes of Watkins, Clarkson, Burgess, McShane, Ambler, Pitts, have played first team and won GFs, LSS, and appeared in CC finals rather than winning pointless youth trophies?

And just to confirm my "naive" comment. It has nothing to do with where the construction is, it's to do with the non-capital costs associated with it that the club will have to pick-up, aside from the loss due to reduced attendances.

Even the Quins fans were underwhelmed by McDermott and seemed to be happy to get rid, and they are one of the most grounded set of supporters in terms of expectations. I'm sure you'll be able to show us the fact that Quins have the cheapest squad in the league. Plenty of other coaches have done better with similar squads.

Is that the likes of BJB, Watkins, Clarkson, Burgess, McShane, Ambler, Pitts etc who got tonked by Fev? Or the likes of BJB, Watkins, Clarkson, Burgess, McShane, Ambler, Pitts etc who haven't shown anything against their peers over the last few years? Just because some are first team regulars doesn't mean they are anywhere near as good as previous players through the Leeds ranks - hence my original point.

And thank you for confirming you actually have no idea regarding the rebuild, and are simply wildly, desperately speculating. Maybe you could give us some examples of these non-capital costs and i can happily tell you why they wont apply. Then maybe you can explain why you expect a reduction in attendances and i can tell you why that is wrong.

Well we will see wont we.

yes, the fact they are first team regulars in a team which has won a LSS, GF and got to a CC final and final eliminator in the past two years, some have won 3 GFs by the age of 24, definitely doesnt mean they are better than players who have less first team experience in less successful squads after all, some of Wigans reserves won some youth competitions.

You'd better tell Hetherington about all this money you've got in grants which won't effect Leeds finances - he obviously doesn't know about it.

We'd better add interest payments to the list. Looks like I know considerably more than you. 4.60791015625:10