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Has anyone suggested that the mairie should stop its involvement?

If league status was based primarily on onfield performance, Wakey would not have anything to worry about as we have for the last 3 years done well in an area which in sport should be the key.

I hate it when Giants fans get all condescending about other clubs when the truth is if KD wasn't bankrolling the cheap season tickets and you hadn't got lucky with HTFC primarily the reason for getting the McAlpine you would have crowds on a par with ours and be playing in a ground worse than ours.

If Wakey could afford to put together the team you have we would get bigger crowds than you are now without any subsidised tickets

but for that seriously rich man huddersfield would still be playing in front of 250 people with a derby against hunslet.

True: Pelo and Fakir off to union on 10 times the salary.
True: McGuire & Bell off contract and not renewed, possibly Walker to leave due to injury.
True: Elima, Ferriol and Guisset at the end of contract and talks not resolved.
Possible: Greenshields targeted by some other club due to being the best FB in SL and possibly the whole Northern Hemisphere.
True: Gates have been lower this year than last.

This does not either support the possibility that the Catalans are in financial crisis nor explain away that they aren't. It would be good to know the scope of the problem if there is one. The bottom line is that of the known departing players only Pelo is a serious loss, others are good but their time has past or they are replaceable. We could further cut our running costs by dropping Carlaw and Sherwin without greatly damaging our on-field success. In fact, we could possibly discuss selling Johnson as we have a decent LF to take his place.

....and ours (bar the final year)?

No really Saddened. Please give us an answer. Tell us what was wrong with our period in Super League, given that P&R were in place and some teams HAD to be relegated. Come on, give us a laugh

This is the biggest problem that any French club is going to have trying to establish itself at the top level of RL in SL

Any quality players produced by Catalans or even Toulouse are going to be poached by the French RU clubs with big money offers

Very difficult situation

the same is true of english players and english SL clubs

at least les cats provide a pathway now.

reviving the game in france is going to take time

Which RL Clubs arn't in financial problems, Widnes went bust a few years ago, points deductions at Rochdale Keighley and Gateshead, Whitehaven a whisker away from a CVA, Salford had to have an emergency loan this year off the local council, Wakey and Cas haven't got the money between them to build a garden shed nevermind a new stadium, Blackpool couldn't pay the players wages last month and had to get bailed out by a director, in fact there's a tiny minority of clubs that just about break even. The only club that constantly lives within it's means is London Skolars that's why they are last every year!

what you say is reality and some people dont want to here it.
its a lot easier to walk around with your head up your arris shouting nothing is wrong with RL everything is wonderful.
debts are good,non payments are good,all sports have them.
these people live in cuckoo land.
how good it must be to follow a club with 10thou+ gates every week and 1.2 million season off sky

Hull are making a profit, and have done for the last 5/6years

Cas have the funding in place for the new stadium!!

Harlequins will win the SL grand final!















We all talking b%((%+ now are we not!!!

Well you might be, I am more inclined to believe the CEO Richard Wright than some bloke on a forum. But that could just be me. Do most clubs spent £140k on architechts when they have no money to buidl a stadium? The council have given the club land they can borrow money against, the can't do anything else with the land though.

Not what I understand. Nearly 3 years from planning permission and nothing. Even your own chairman made comments a few months ago about downgrading because of money problems. Not bad to say he was claiming in 2006 that completion would be Oct 2008! One word...SKINT!!!!!

i'm glad you wakey fans are such experts on cas's stadium as usual, hows things going a newmarket, Richardson still desperate for cas to move in?

Not as desperate as what your lot are to sell the Jungle!!!

Can't remember our chairman ever making a statement on our new stadium.

Quote ="Fully"Can't remember our chairman ever making a statement on our new stadium.'" Feast your eyes on this old cock; www.skysports.com/story/0,19528, ... 37,00.html

Quote ="Fully"Can't remember our chairman ever making a statement on our new stadium.'" Feast your eyes on this old cock; www.skysports.com/story/0,19528, ... 37,00.html

Quote ="deeHell"Feast your eyes on this old cock; www.skysports.com/story/0,19528, ... 37,00.html'" That's our Chief Executive, not our Chairman.

Quote ="deeHell"Feast your eyes on this old cock; www.skysports.com/story/0,19528, ... 37,00.html'" That's our Chief Executive, not our Chairman.

What was wrong was that everyone had to go to Widnes rather than Perpignan. The End.

but if Catalans go under then yet again a french team as failed

you sometimes fail to see the woods for the trees