Daz estimated about 7000 to 7500 tickets sold for Wembley between the shop and the RL website. 24 buses from the club and a further 12 they know of from pubs etc.

15 points is A grade ?

Yes

If we don't get to 15 I think we will comfortably be in super league and if we finish 6th and start getting over 7.5k fans we will easily be cat A by sounds of it

The 7.5k fans score will probably take at least 3 more seasons, certainly 2.

Of course, even longer if the West / Northstand developments hit our capacity.

Thanks guys for the summary of the forum, I would have loved to have gone but I couldn't have made it due to reasons beyond my control, Matt Ellis is very savvy, Onwards & upwards, brilliant about trying to gain more img points but be aware Wilkin & London trying to start & steam roller a wave of change to how points or exemptions should be applied now before 2025 !! ??
I do not agree with his points of view & reasons, there is a long way to go yet !

They can't change to current rules mid season. If London were to get a free pass clubs would take legal action

Not a worry at all. The format hasn’t even had a full half season yet so talk of any amendment is frankly silly. The only reason that London are trying to get an adaptation is because they don’t meet the 12 benchmark and it’s self interest. Every club from 12th onwards can ask the same but it simply won’t happen. Trinity were talking about no relegation and swapping to 14 last season in our own interests. It’s no different. The video from Broncos basically saying they want changes because they don’t make the 12 is strange to openly admit it. Nobody is winning any politics awards for that one.

Can you imaging if a club (any club) get special treatment or special criteria. It’s got legal action written all over it from the team in 13th and below who misses at expense. It’s entitlement and panic at its finest.

Entirely agree with the last two posts, also, John Wilkin has the biggest gob, he also has the sky platform & airing silly views, ie, if & a big if he got his way, who the he'll as an invested & or owner would invest in clubs outside super league if two clubs got exemption, ie London & Toulouse especially his ideas of 3 to 4 yrs ?

Got a lovely tour of the dressing rooms and other facilities within the Neil Fox stand. Really enjoyed the night and the news. Also got something confirmed but keeping my Trap shut for now.

Remembered another couple of snippets.

We are extending the TV gantry, which also earns extra IMG points.

Powell joked about taking the applause of the Wakey fans after an earlier win, who then started chanting "you Cas ba***rd".

Yeah, the Sky Gantry has to be 4m x 4m if I can remember rightly, the Cas owner was on about how they are increasing theirs to get extra points.

It's not that it gets us extra points. It's just part of the criteria for the full points for stadium.
I'm surprised it isn't already big enough but it's a simple fix to make sure we guarantee that extra point.

Yes, it's not a stand-alone criterion, but it's part of a wider score.

Extending the gantry means we meet a full, "scoring" part of that wider criteria.

Everything Ellis does now will probably be to secure any increase in IMG points guaranteed like the gantry. I suspect we will see the LED boards appear soon so they count on this seasons gradings. Ultimately, if he can spend a few hundred k upfront he should if we get into SL get some of that back with the SL money instead of championship money.

Did they give any indication as to the size of squad we are hoping to have next season?

Yes, the thing is with the LED boards is there isn't really any income to generate by them whilst we aren't on TV and as long as we get them in before October, they count towards our score regardless.

The investment on these are a lot bigger than I expected, I have a friend that works a company that supplies these throughout Europe, apparently for a singular 3m panel they are around 7k, so your looking at circa 230k just for one side of the pitch.

710k for 3 sides of a pitch does seem incredibly expensive. I’d have anticipated 250k probably for the 3 sides.

It does, I was thinking the same tbh and that around 250k figure is what I had heard thrown about. I was surprised by the figure. I'm sure Ellis will have done his homework and get food value for money if we are looking at putting them in.

I heard from a friend who does lighting and shop banners etc and he reckoned they'd be at least over 100k a side but he'd never done a ground and didn't know exactly the dimensions we need, so was just guessing.

100 metres long for us....but only 68 metres long for Cas

Matt Ellis quoted it as £300k, though can't remember if that was at the forum or elsewhere.

That could well be a verbal rounding-up of a figure somewhere above the £250k also mentioned on here.

It may have come from a conversation I had with someone at the club.

Ah hah, Will we have enough electric/power to drive these for a whole match along with all other power hungry usage at the same time ?

I’d hope so. Most sites have a capacity above the draw to make additions for such upgrades.

The 250-300k is a chunk of cash but if it gets you extra guaranteed points and into SL a year sooner (with an extra 1mill funding, larger crowds and exposure on tv) it’s worth every penny for sure.

Tbh between now and up to the IMG assessing the only things that need doing are the LED and some cosmetic upgrades in places to refresh the look (things like toilets/bit of paintwork etc).

I've been past the ground a couple of times today and there were 2 diyKitchens vans outside the main entrance and the guys were adding some additional woodwork to 2 advertising hoardings to the right hand side of the turnstiles above the wall