There is a reason I work in IT and not in accounts.. I can't think what it is right now... but there is a reason!

Which will make it even more interesting to see what effect that relatively successful season, with it's innovative idea's, has on the accounts, will it be enough to turn around the £1.38m loss ??

I cant actually understand how this is the case when the SL operates to limit your spending at 1.6m and you cant spend more than 50% of your income. Unless the club is paying staduim rental costs and other costs, there are only general admin costs for the club to pay out so I fail to see how can more than 50% of your income be spent in these areas? Surely the wage bill is the largest outgoing of a club?

No longer the case , that rule was dropped in 2008

Now I know you're talking out of your @rse.

SO what is actually the point of the salary cap now!! I thought the main argument was to stop clubs overstretch themselves and not go bankrupt? Which it is clearly NOT doing.

The only motivation i can therefore then see for the salary cap is to hold back the bigger clubs back to a level somewhere just above your salfords, celtics, wakefields and londons etc. while now still letting them overstretch themselves in the process. Why not do the proper thing and let natural forces take effect so that clubs that are not big enough for SL actually do something about it or find their natural level in NL1?! Typicall RFL

As I said - I'm no accountant but I thank you for you pointless addition to the thread.

Irony

So you want a SL of 5/6 teams then ?

But surely if the Salary cap was scrapped the bigger clubs would just get into even more debt? If the list of debt is accurate its not only Salford, Celtic, Wakey and Haliquin on it. Or are you just ignoring the other teams?

Maybe the RFL should concentrate on having all clubs , SL and the Championship all self sustaining [ earned income , not ' gifted ' before trying to take over the world

Or is that idea far too sensible ?

the north stand will be done afterwards, the west probably never as it cant get planning permission because of the houses behind

not that the Spectator Sportsground of the Year particularly needs it

Perhaps by offering semi-pro clubs funding for a full time marketing operation to increase income from corporate sponsorship streams?

only if caddick doesn't win the contract and lets face it, thats not going to happen

Were YCCC not concentrating their efforts on other parts of their ground first or has that now been done?

but it was specifically just ' investment ' ie rich people with money to ' burn '

can visiting fans to headingly have the east stand then?? protect us from the weather now and again

they are currently doing another part of their ground, the original plan was to rebuild the north stand, and in a way it is fortunate the issues re the southstand have come to light now, when the YCCC had other priorities anyway

currently YCCC are doing the pavillion at their north stand (the rl north stand backs onto the cricket southstand)

the RL northstand redevelopment will need YCCC co-operation

they can indeed, there is no away stand at headingley, you are trusted to go where you want

yet leeds send clubs west stand tickets to buy in advance, and didn't think any away fans were allowed in the animal cage, sorry south stand

just trying to keep the rif-raf as far away as possible from the carnegie stand

too expensive for us poor folk anyway

Exactly. As with most clubs, tickets for certain areas are sent to the visiting club to sell, but anyone can get tickets from the home club in any stand so long as they're not sold out.

Thats as I understood it to be and that YCCC were not in too much of a rush to get it done because they'd not long ago got a loan from the Council for other works.

It makes no difference to me as I'm just as happy watching RL at Barrow or Old Trafford (so I'm not trolling), but it could be a while until its done then?

well i would expect that something will be pretty much set to go ahead within about 5 years,

next year the southstand almost certainly will be rebuilt, the safety certification it got post-structural damage, would last for only two years, the second of which is next year, so something will need to be done in the next off-season,

i would hope, 3/4 years after that, we would be in a position to look at the north stand