See you are doing it again bringing facts into it.

I would also every club make a profit as without the teams we have no sport.

No one, outside of top 10 Soccer teams goes into a sport and expects to make a profit, they always hope to break even.



In fact, there is an old saying, "if you are in profit you aren't even really trying to be a succesful team"

I believe what we are trying to say is that we all want the sport of RL to survive and maybe prosper.

We are not soccer.

We aren't Premier League, but many of the lower leagues are similar and clubs almost always run at a loss if not break even, only a hadful of clubs in any UK sport runs at the profit.

Burnley did.

That is why I never understand when guys like LeBron 69 on here or Mav on Twitter (who I suspect is one and the same) celebrate when a big rival makes a financial loss, even more so when those rivals are the biggest teams in the game. If Saints and Wigan are making big losses, that’s an issue for the whole game and we should all be slightly nervous about it’s general health. There are reasons behind those losses and in both cases, the clubs are owned/part owned by guys who can cover it but it isn’t a good look and we need IMG to turn the tide across the board.

Genuinely don't understand how Wakefield were the only club to record a profit in FY2021. A year blighted by Covid, where attendances were impacted and players and staff still needed to be paid.

I know I cannot for the life of me understand why some idiot celebrates a team that is struggling with debt surely you would want RL to be viable and successful as a sport,after all most of us love the game as we give money and time to watch,play etc.As without teams to play we have no sport.

If other teams supporters would travel in numbers like a Wigan or Saints or Warrington that would help the coffers going in to the clubs.

That was definitely an eyebrow raiser to say the very least.

Burnley’s new owners have bought the club with a loan and sold most of the players worth anything, they’ve invested a small amount of that and appointed a good manager but if I was a Burnley fan I’d be very worried if they don’t go up this season.

That's true but they still made a profit under their previous owners.

It's hard to judge as they only publish abridged accounts so we don't know if they counted the government covid loans as income or how they used the furlough scheme?

COVID and the furlough scheme has a lot to answer for.

I wonder if we knew Bateman was going we have pushed to sign Rushton

Nowhere near good enough IMO.

INOUT



We should have pushed to retain Nicholson.

Agreed

And the wrong fit fot a Bateman replacement, we don't need another lightweight prop we need a rangy 2nd row.

We have Big Willie Isa

A guy on the other forum, who is definitely in the know (not Dan) has stated that a RL Agent has told him we are chasing JWH and Thompson.

If DDTFTF says it's true then majority of the time it comes true

We've got one coming through.

I can’t see how we’d be able to bring one of those guys in let alone two and be under the cap

Bateman is on marquee money so in terms of the salary cap it isn’t an issue.

But surely both of those players would want marquee money or a big chunk of money