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Will Pryce to the Leopards is doing the rounds

Summer has killed BARLA imo so would advocate the owd Winter BARLA and summer conference to give clubs the option or indeed both

theres no heritage after 2 years......................

Thought even you would have got it by now

Be careful what you say on here pal the Luddites will be gathering

We need some of the larger, younger props having a BIG season as I feel we are light in that area against the Aussie/NZ

My town Leigh is a good example. For many years outside the top flight and Wiggins dominance saw the emergence of said shirts around town, it coincided with an invasion of Humbles looking for a better life. Kids didn’t want to be associated with failure and adults simply stopped watching bar the odd BIG CC game etc. Few if any Leigh ‘fans’ had no history to associate themselves to the club, we weren’t on TV or winning at Wembley/OT. So ‘new’ fans did as we did with alien sports on tv eg American football or Golf, they choose a tv club and it gave them a bit more emotion for tv games. Pick a club, enjoy and get yourself to a GF or Wembley or a big derby - the important word being enjoy

Rather nail mi scrote to the floorboards

He was 'promised' no relegation when taking the reduced money - that got voted down later in the season when certain clubs knew they were safe. Probably the driving force to what he recruited in 2022 and possibly the best thing that ever happened

Did it say on what? If building all that was built at commercial rates it would have been much higher than £17.6m

This is a common error made - LSV did not cost anyone a penny. It was a transaction that involved a land swap for facilities ie the developer built LSV, Harriers Leigh East and college in return for commercial land on which they built a hotel, supermarket, Specialist health facility and housing. Hope this helps

Its going to be in the states, they will have bought the NH game by then and have bombarded US tv

Aye your wrong. Best attended series for a while was 1990? Wembley OT then Elland rd - 135k or so paid to watch (45k average attendance) without discounts and ER had a 32500 limit at the time and OT 48k both were sell outs and you could have sold double for the decider.

5pm mcr or Leeds is doable - anywhere else will fail.

Why - its replaced the CCF and has 2 teams who sell 40k between them

Any evening at a big ground doesn't work due to transport and/or costs of hotels to attract enough fans. Sat 3pm for all unless you go to 25k stadia

Cost would depend on NRL expectations - if it gets the TV cash which covers a huge sell in the Smog then it’s a no brainer should Wembley be available

I wouldn’t bother unless it was a decider, would go to Etihad even OT plus the London one. Would travel in a decent sized group to those 2 and to Everton/Newcastle if it was a decider

Liverpool won’t work unless it’s the decider same as Newcastle, all roads lead to London and Manchester ( and Leeds) so they should be nailed on just wish Leeds had a 50k stadium with decent seats and pitch size

To get a great crowd in Newcastle you can’t have a London Test straight after it. its the gamble venue so if it was to host make it the third, if its the decider it sells out

IF this is correct it should go London, Manchester and Bradford. Pick weekends the trains aren’t on strike also by negotiating with the unions.

So may folk think sales = profit, and that owning a ground is a great idea and of no risk. I understand the H&S at Trin is interesting as a visiting fan allocated a side section with Carp views, access and turnstiles - as I also understand the government freebie was used well to upgrade the derelict stand. Some basic maths If £40k is taken in food and beer sales on matchday, profit will be £10-15k ish or £150k ish in the season, if 4000 season ticket holders paid £40 more that covers the profit on secondary sales. I am not privileged to the detail of the current LSV lease agreement but the initial deal was Leigh got 11% of any profits, also when a crowd was above a certain figure I believe at was 7000 then there was no charge due to secondary income. For a ground to make money it needs more than 13-15 games a season, it needs facilities that generate 52 week income like weddings, commercial office space, a soccer club like Man U ladies and reserves etc just like LSV now has. Just look at Saints income being hit recently

We’ll no debt, best attendance for 70 years, no cheap tickets and huge corporate support means something seismic has to happen

Sorry it will always be Twickenham, they can change their pants but smell will remain

Wtf is Allianz?