Quote ="PopTart"If you assume everything has a price and that Carter has to consider what is best for the club as a going concern, this is how I would quantify it.
The assumption is that we would be selling the place, not the club, so I would want a smaller club to have a place somewhere else in the Rugby League structure.
Let's assume it's in the Championship but even if it is in Champ 2 we would need somewhere to play and money to develop.
And it would need to be better over 5 years than we have now.
So I'd assume our crowds would drop to 1.5-2k and there would be little funding from the RFL.
So to make it worth considering I would say
1) RFL confirm a place in the lower league
2) The new franchise would pay the following
5 years SL equivalent funding (£1.6 million?) so 5 x £1.6m = £8 million
Make up the lost crowd costs 17 games at £22 x 3,000 crowd x 5 years = £5.6 million
So the price to start considering the bid would be £13.6 million for me. I might give them a discount to £13 million for cash.
With that money I would rent Dewsbury until we can buy Belle Vue back and develop it to a level that could take a place in Super League if won through the Super 8s process.'"
Sod renting. Buy a plot of land and get two new stands built for that.
