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Is the 0.3 element based on their three year on field performance place score going down?

After the HKR V Cas game last night they said a Bridging loan was in place for this month and were optimistic about money coming in for signings. This fits in with what I’d heard.

Shame for Huddersfield BUT most I’ve enjoyed a game with them in it for a long time, miles more atmosphere in a smaller stadium

Fair point

You do logically but without him and others at other clubs making illogical self sacrifices I suspect we’d have literally no clubs left.

Interesting point you’d be left with a 13 team Championship as you couldn’t really relegate another team retrospectively .

Not really if Salford survive at least one Championships club has to go down.

in an attempt to throw in a couple of points into this debate to get it out of groundhog mode. 1. The Accrington Stanley chairman has stood down this week and in his press release he has stated that he has informed the EFL that he will cover any loses next season , he stated that the EFL carry out financial tests BEFORE the season starts to ensure a club can see out the forthcoming season. 2. The post match interview with Paul Rowley on Saturday didn’t offer any glimmer of hope of the financial cavalry coming. In regards to people saying there is no pint in them carrying on I suppose where there is life there’s hope.

If they are not then they are not obligated to pay anything over yet, I did however read they’d paid last month wages but even then they could have done it to keep the deal alive and no doubt with the amount of players that have left the wage bill will be considerably reduced. Incoming transfer fees may well have offset the wage bill too.

1,500 a day equates to £547,000 pa in interest at 10% that means they have a £5.4m loan I really can’t see that they do. unless as the previous poster says it’s a pay day rate at 40% pa. Any purchaser would have to clear the debt and fund the ongoing loses so in real terms it’s at least £1m pa with a reduced squad which in turn means more loses and less crowds.

Doesn’t augur well for Toulouse then. Catalans are here as long as they are viable.

Toulouse did a programme for the Widnes game, I suspect they’ll do one at all home games. Widnes do a printed team sheet for every game

I know this doesn’t add much to the debate, it is that as soon as benefactors can’t or won’t fund these significant loses the game is up as the level of loses is so high it only takes months or even weeks for the wheel to come off. in regards to Salford the problem is the RFL can’t just pay the players wages and that’s enough, HMRC want paying and the staff want paying or no doubt they will walk away. While the squad is drastically weakened home gates will plummet and there are still match day costs like a Doctor, food for players etc etc. so there may in effect be very little coming in. Then there is of course the matter of stadium rent. The council may see this as their “contribution” I.e. not chasing it too hard. There is an element of throwing good money after bad and I get the impression the other clubs are concerned about that. From all the smoke signals it looks like the buyers are not keen to put any of their money in let alone without the land deal. The talk of 49k a day doesn’t add up as around three days of that would cover the months wages of the remaining squad. in short McManus is right when he states the obvious in that the current SL set up is unsustainable.

Albi had a huge following all the way to Narbonne (which is over twice as far) last year for the GF with the club putting on coaches,I suspect more than half the crowd were there for the Lord Derby Semi

1000 fans would bring in around £15k as you have VAT to knock off plus a reduction as some will be £10 kids and some concessions. But yes I get your point

They did but to be fair there was a good element of marketing too

I wouldn’t disagree but the three have done it on the back of considerable investment on their squads by backers to increase their on field success.

That’s a lot easier said than done and certainly not many clubs have done it over and above given what are the usual factors such as league position, size of club, catchment area. Probably in my lifetime only Keighley and Bradford have managed it to any extent and both proved unsustainable.

Surely if the NRL own it they can dictate policy. In regards to expansion teams until it makes economic sense expansion teams in SL won’t happen whoever runs the comp. We can all put pins in the map but you only have to look at Salford to look at the loses that can incur even with a squad without excessive spend never mind having to pay over the odds for players to relocate.

Who were the injured players? Widnes had the following unavailable Owens Edge Ince Williams Johnson Hall

As I understand it he lost possession in going over and then the ref thought the actual downward pressure was ok but hadn’t seen possession being lost and therefore the need to regather properly before touching the ball down.

Peyroux sustained a very bad injury in the game which could possibly be long term. Hope the guy is ok.

1 Goole Vikings v North Wales Crusaders 2 Workington Town v Dewsbury Rams 3 Rochdale Hornets v Swinton Lions 4 Keighley Cougars v Midlands Hurricanes 4 good ties, all could go either way

The Chan signing has been discussed, it may be a cheaper replacement for a higher wage earner.

Yep that was based on knocking the VAT off then knocking some off for concessions leaving roughly £10k income