LeytherRob

The financial year ends in April, so clubs submit the financial aspects of grading is submitted in May/June time to give time to audit the data. There just isn't an accurate way to have live financial data informing the grades come October time unfortunately - there are quite severe punishments including a reduction of a full grade (A to B, B to C) for any insolvency events so if it did come to that Salford would be guaranteed relegation at the end of the year since they would be a C.

We do, they just aren't necessarily at Salford and they don't have to be - that's why we retain movement between divisions regardless of the system. If Salford don't have one and can't afford to be a SL club then they have to bite the bullet and accept life as a championship club like many others have had to do in the past. Salford have no god given right to be in SL at all costs and there are clubs in the Championship (York immediately spring to mind but there are others) that deserve to have a crack rather than being held back because a lower end sized SL club wants keeping on life support above its means.

Several clubs came out and rubbished those figures sky put out immediately after and said they were drastically out. They are not to be taken as fact.

Not to mention snapping up Watkins and Ackers from Toronto. Salford have consistently shown little mercy when other clubs have been in financial strife. Expecting other clubs to do the opposite for them is highly hypocritical.

Is this still the investment group from Australia? I’d be interested to hear their motivations and goals from investing in UK RL, I’m always a wary of investment that isn’t from someone personally invested in a club because let’s face it, there is no return to be had on an ‘investment’ into a UK RL club, especially a smaller one like Salford. As we saw with Marwan, big money doesn’t equal success nor long term stability.

You do realise it’s not going to be just a couple of years though don’t you? Considering there isn’t even a site in place, it’ll take a decade or more. It took nearly a decade to open the LSV from early plans and that was fairly straightforward with land identified very early.

Hearn has already said that he isn’t will to take on a single event, it’s either the whole league/sport in the UK or nothing

It's not a luxury you can afford when there isn't a monster TV deal making up a good % of turnover. Selling a few replica shirts can go a long way in a smaller sport like UK RL and UK clubs should absolutely be maximising their revenue streams any way they can.

I don’t want to make assumptions of your circumstances, but recovery does tend to be a lot slower for us civvies that don’t have access to proper rehab facilities and physiotherapists micromanaging the recovery process. I say that as someone with a pretty dodgy shoulder from a dislocation over 10 years ago because I was a lazy **** at the time with the NHS recommended rehab exercises.

I’d interview Callum Walker and find out his top 5 articles.

I get the argument of having consistent design etc for brand awareness but it’s just not for me. I find it really boring and it’s just comes off really lazy from a design perspective.

Pretty much every story on the topic has mentioned a sustainability cap as part of the special measures.

The RFL can impose a lower spending cap which would mean they’d have no choice

Who would want to buy it for more though? Regardless of any upgrades, the 2 tenants would be a non league football club and a championship RL club, both of which have been in financial difficulties with very modest followings, doesn’t exactly scream ‘good investment’.

True although I suspect it will be a little harder to just crack on with the Huddersfield name if they are based in Fax full time

Even with the best intentions it takes the best part of a decade to get a new stadium built, by that point is it even worth going back to Huddersfield to essentially start from scratch again?

It’s sold out the last 2 years, and there are now even more season ticket holders at Leigh than in those years making less available for general sale. So yeah it more than likely will sell out very comfortably.

SC raises a good point though regarding the relationship with the council (and this is relevant to any club in a rented ground) which I haven't seen raised on here previously - it would be poor form to take the most valuable game of the year to another town and the revenue that comes with it. Having sellout games like the one against Wigan are what keeps the LSV deal sweeter because they are the fixtures that keep the stadium commercially viable. There's no need to be looking elsewhere - if it's selling out a couple of times a year then great, use that scarcity to draw people to lesser fixtures and work on selling those out too.

looking more likely he’s off to Hull considering they are apparently throwing big transfer fees at it. I think it’s more likely Leigh bring in a quota halfback

Some do, certainly not all though

Well this was unexpected

Phiggins point Harry, which I agree with, is that if Mick Gledhill is saying it's going to happen then it probably isn't. I'll believe it's happening when an actual journalist says it's happening.

Most clubs do this already

The scoreboard issue has been updated for next years grading so it isn’t as binary.