A question folks !.....Seeing as we are (hopefully) going to a new stadium....and that to attract new fans as well as keeping hold of us existing ones....How much do you think DH would have to dig deep for in order for us to have a real crack at Super League ??..A winning team is surely the only way that will improve our gates...

Maybe look at TWP players wage bill (when they were being paid) for the answer to that question. Take out money bill williams contract cost. But reckon thats the sort of squad and spend you need

Can David dig any deeper ?
Time to get out the hot seat maybe

Back to the same old discussion. If David decided to get out of the hot seat, as demonstrated last time he atepped back, there are not a lot of folk out there who have the willingness to pour there money into the black hole that is this level of sport.
I would say investment but the reality like the majority of pro sports clubs its spending not investing as there is not going to be any profit.
Look around the sport in this country, virtually every club relies on a RL fan with deep pockets to survive.
Would love to see another D hughes, or Ian Lenegan pop up and start spending his or her money on the club and let David stand aside.

I dont think D Hughes has deep enough pockets for what we need to have a seripus crack at making SL or more important staying there.

Whats he worth?

Not got a clue? But he has effectivky retired so no linger has his business incomea as before to sustain things

You never know who’s interested !!!

But you've stated he hasnt got enough.

WQ you choose to read selectivly. What i said was.
Quote i dont think!
That is an opinion not a statement of fact. The bloke has retired from his business that he ran previously. From that most folk would probably summise that his personal wealth figure has likely changed.
Agree that we have no clue who might be interested in taking the mantle, but if you look at recent history, last time DH stepped back, the club were within days of disapearing with no new owner jumping in to take the helm! In the current world i cannot see many folk who would be in a position to jump into spending millions each year for no return.

What not even a 3/4 man consortium ?

It does not matter what David Hughes wealth is. What does matter is what he is prepared to financially, commit to the club.

With RL being such a basket case of a sport, most people with money would be bonkers to get involved.

You are so right Deadcowboys1, you have to be bonkers to get financially involved in sport. Rugby League included. Yet still what you would think are very sensible business people, do get involved. I put it down to vanity.

The point raised here was what people thought the cost was going to be to fund a team capable of promotion. Can DH afford it? I gave my opinion, look at TWP, is DH likely to fund that level? IMO doubt he can.

Agree with you Bosty, vanity is a strong emotion. Lets hope someone puts there head above the ledge and want to spend some pennies

Why look at Toronto they were a poorly managed club. Look at Wigan and Saints they're the most successful clubs.

The question raised was what would it cost to gain promotion. Not how much would it cost to have a team that is capable of winning the league.
TWP had a team that was full of players of SL standard, ergo, thats the sort of team that is neededed, so there players wage bill is pretty indicative of costs.
How that team was managed is irrelevent, the costs of wages are the same

But our long term strategy is 70% academy in the first team which reflects Wigan and Saints. Toronto didn't have one Canadian in the squad. Do you see the the alignment, hence why I referenced them.

This thread is not about long term academy strategy though.
This thread is about promotion, and how much it would cost.
London will not get promoted with a team of 70% academy home grown players.
London need experienced and marquee players in order to gain promotion, that costs money.

Or maybe start a thread asking the question, could london get promoted with a team made up of 70% academy players

So WQ what do you think it would cost for any team to get promotion, and more important stay in SL

It would be difficult for London to get promoted with 70% of players from the Academy. This is because once they get experience and start to perform to a high standard.
Northern teams come and sign them up. We have to start again.
To stay in SL you just have to be finish one place above another team. The thing is that the dice is loaded against the promoted team. No coincidence there.

Think our last season in SL displayed a leveling off with the amount of points we finished with. Interested to see how leigh go this season with reduced funding

There was even a claim recently from some clubs in The North, even if London RL disappeared, we would still get the same talented young players from the South, one word came to mind Deluded!