3rd of April.

I’m assuming that’s till? Can’t see the magic weekend Going ahead now

https://www.rugby-league.com/article/56 ... suspension

https://www.rugby-league.com/article/56 ... suspension

That'll really hurt a club like ours.
That's a lot of cash missed by the club. It'll come in eventually but maybe too late.

It's going to decimate the community game, with the junior season just 1 week in and the summer open age due to start towards the end of this current suspension.
I'm the chairman of a community club, it cost us around £1k a month even if we don't open the doors and have no matches. Hopefully there is going to be some help for us, at this time I've not had any correspondence/communication directly to our club from the governing body, I hope we are not just an after thought as the community game is specifically mentioned in the RFL announcement

The key word in all that is 'initially'. I'd say there is no chance we'll be back playing in two and a half weeks and the season could be in serious doubt altogether if this runs in the summer as is predicted. The financial costs will be dire.

Even if we do resume and play on 5th April no-one over 70 will be able to attend, they'll all be in week 3 of their isolation.

Play games behind closed doors .

live stream every game not on sky for 5 pound?

Only silver lining is it gives our injured players a chance to get fit assuming the club doesnt go bust in the mean time! Agree we should at least have tried to put this weekends fixtures all on sky behind closed doors 1 thursday 1 friday 2 saturday and 2 sunday

My take on this is as follows and not being a CEO it’s pure speculation I fully admit.

RL clubs get two forms of funding, TV revenue and fan/commercial.

I’m guessing the TV money is safe for now especially if games eventually go ahead even behind closed doors. TV money is the golden egg in RL and provides the lions share of the cash.

The fan/commercial is more tricky.

Season tickets are paid in advance so assuming only a small number want a refund that’s safe.

Ditto commercial. I assume a fair percentage of the commercial stuff is paid up for at least the next moth or so. Stuff like shirt sales has almost certainly gone well past it’s peak. So many revenue streams are already paid up. Obviously there is still a fair chunk going begging but in some areas but not all.

The hardest one to gauge is fans paying on the day and what they spend. This is where we will lose out but you don’t need to be a Dragon to realise that it’s not a massively profitable part of the business with just a few games offering any real return.

When playing the likes of Toronto, Salford and Hudds we probably come close to losing money on these games. When you take the cost of staging a game into account I’m guessing we need to hit 4.5k before we make money. Financially these games are not a huge loss.

On the flip side Cas and Leeds are big losses because again I’m guessing that every £22 we get once over 4.5k is mainly profit.

Truth is if I’m correct our future depends on the following.

1. How many profit games we lose.

2. How long the ban lasts, obviously.

3. That we are as financially sound as hoped and thus gain the support of the banks and retain a minimum cash flow. We will also need the support of fans, businesses and the RFL to do this.

4. A good attitude from the players. By this I mean they play for they exist on the minimum. I don’t mean they take huge pay cuts, we all have to live but any bonuses etc are put on hold. The players need to note that technically there jobs are now redundant and in effect so are they all be it temporary fingers crossed.

Some staff will simply have to be laid off but some are probably contractors and others like matchday staff are temps anyway. It brutal but it’s a tough time.

In the long term if the virus isn’t stopped we are all stuffed and the last thing anyone will care about is RL. We all need to do our bit.

I’m lucky I’m not skint and my job is safe. I am willing to contribute an initial £100 to any fund to help the club.

I suggest those like me let it be known on here or other sites if they are willing to do the same.

It may only help a bit but MC needs to know what options he has sooner rather than later.

Finally I fully accept some of what I say may be utterly wrong but this is a forum for ideas.

It’s grim no doubt but manageable in the short to medium.

It's not a case of withholding bonuses for me. If they earn them they get them. You are talking about real people's lives here.

We should be looking to support the club however we can.

I think MC said cancelling a game on average costs him £60k.

I don't see why you chose to do this regarding my post it makes you look desperate. I clearly mean bonuses they can no longer earn as they are no longer playing! Would you expect your employer to pay you the overtime you might have got normally or the profit share you may have received if there is no longer any overtime or any profits? I assume even you wouldn't expect that. I have no wish to deny anybody monies they are entitled too.