Speaking from my experience as an accountant who used to work at a football club, i can say players there are considered as 'assets' on the balance sheet and depreciated over the term of their contracts. Whether this is the same in a rugby league club or not though, I couldn't be sure.

I imagine as the local authority own the ground we will pay them a fee to stage games there. How much that would be - I wouldn't have a clue. Depends on what's negotiated between club and council.

The council will not own the stadium the Community Trust will so any rent will be paid to them. That said, its in the Trusts interest to ensure the clubs operating out of the stadium are financilly viable so the rent must be affordable to the tenant. After all there's no point having a stadium if there isn't a team to utilise it's potential.

Happy to stand corrected.

The issue isn't really how much the club is "worth" (as previous answers have already said it's not really got any real value) but more of how much anyone would need to be able to invest in the club.

Anyone buying the club would need to accept that their investment will be money that their likely to never get a realistic return on - it's not like they'd be buying a Premier League soccer team that has the ability to tap into a global appetite for their sport - which would probably rule out a lot of people.

What it does mean is that any new owner/majority shareholder would almost inevitably be a FAN which can only be a good thing.

As I said on a similar thread a couple of weeks ago, anyone with the money to burn to buy the club would almost certainly want to wait until the franchise decision is known - it's one thing being rich enough to chuck a few hundred grand (or maybe a couple of million) down the drain for a club with guaranteed SL status, but it's another thing altogether if there's a risk of not having SL status.