Just a couple of points to address the (perfectly reasonable) cynics in the room:
The Community Share Offering has been in the works by the club for a couple of years now, this has not been a sudden reaction to an immediate cashflow issue (which there may or may not be, but which no one on here knows the details);
This is not a rejection of a traditional ownership model. The club is, as we speak, approaching Salford businessmen/businesses as potential benefactors (the £10,000+ share option is a not so subtle reflection of this);
The club will benefit financially from the new stadium deal whereby F&B and non-matchday revenues will, for the first time, be retained.
SRD are in the same position that every other professional rugby league club (save for, I would guess, Leeds and Catalans) in the Northern Hemisphere would be in without a benefactor to underwrite the losses. Super League, and its clubs, do not generate sufficient revenues to sustain successful and ambitious sport.
The club is, quite wisely, exploring as many different opportunities as possible to overcome this problem.
It may ultimately fail, but it is not a last-ditch attempt to meet the day-to-day running costs of the club.
There is far more cause for (pragmatic) optimism than there has been for many years at the club.