Is it sad I am with the gf but sat with a huge smile on my face over the clubs books?

Who cares! We are Super League, we are Super League

Well done Widnes..Thats a great turnover and I hope it is right. If it is I think SL is yours.

However if you look at your average attendance of 2884 per game, that leaves alot of money found from other avenues.
2884 x £15 (assuming all adult) £1,937,620.00 to raise outwith of ticket sales.....quite a tall order even for a SL team.

Good luck with your bid and even if the estimates are not that accurate i'm sure you have a good sound profit and will be at the forefront for SL.

We iz well minted !!!!

In all seriousness.... Coming from a Widnes - sounds like "swear filter" "swear filter", or VERY VERY creative accountanting.... Wouldnt mind a shufty at those....


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More like £10 per person through the turnstiles accounting for kids and VAT which makes the revenue through fans down to around 400 K , so over 2 million from sponsors , merchandise and lottery

If they sold 10,000 replicas on the back of the NRC final they'd clear another 200 K at £ 20 each , but doubt they would have shifted more than half that , so say 100 K in merchandise

Realistically Widnes on gates of 3,000 will pull in around 1.2/3 per year , to double that they would have needed to make the Challenge cup final and ave 7/8,000 attendances

Boring, let's see Leighs books then pull them apart... Be pretty easy I guess!

Starbug the only place u havnt been spouting your envious rants is the TIW board...what between here and the VT i bet your fingers are at blistering point ,are they not ? Trolls these days eh....

I,m not pulling anything apart , what has been reported is most likely what is in the books , not a problem , well done , over two years to basically break even in today's economic climate is an excellent achievement especially in our ' nothing to play for league '

As for Leighs financial position , well given that we have a 1,000 less coming through the gates and we haven't made a final , let alone anything else like sponsorship , I doubt it would make good reading , or at least as good as yours

I ll leave you to your GF , she must be getting a bit frustrated by now

Must admit when I first received the text from ny brother in law I thought he must have got it wrong. However having a think about it I cant see why SOC would be so stupid to lie about the figures so they must be right. He wouldnt risk all the good work him and the team have put in since ho took over.

Like it or not, Widnes are now the benchmark for all clubs outside of SL andmost of the clubs in it.

Do you know how much each sponsor is paying into the club and merchandise sales?People who are stobart spotters could be buying Widnes shirts,cups, etc.We had a few Challenge cup games, and Nr cup final runners up, and gate receipts.Merchandise for rail final so it is difficult for you to judge.