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Getting the Dons into Super League would improve income from attendances, but it would also bring in a lot of money from the Sky Super League deal. When I was Secretary at Hunslet I wrote to then Chairman Maurice Lindsay saying that unless each SL club took a smaller club under it's wing the game in general would suffer. My Chairman at the time was a big friend of ML, they were bookies together. I was hauled over the coals on ML's instructions and told I was wrong. Ask supporters of teams like Oldham, Featherstone, Halifax, Barrow, etc, if I was wrong. Prior to Super League they were all prosperous clubs, now they all struggle to find income. So, if the Dons were able to get a Super League franchise it would increase the income at Doncaster, but it might also put several other clubs out of business. However, the wages and expenses of full time Rugby players, many from overseas would literally wipe out the increase in income. We shall have to wait and see what the future brings, good, bad or indifferent.
So the rugby club has come out as a key issue in this whole saga. JR stated in his interview that rovers have now bought the dons for £100k. He obviously didn't want to do this and felt undermined by it going throughIf rumours are to be believed (and these are just rumours), Watson and Bramall (guided by Baldwin) want to start putting money into the rugby club for reasons believed to do with the fact that it is relatively cheaper to maintain a successful rugby club and that a successful 'sporting club' can potentially be a greater revenue stream for the stadium as a whole along the line. (again - this is all totally conjecture and things I've heard)Interesting angle to think about when people claim this is all to do with land. Thoughts?
Quote from: Copps is Magic on November 09, 2013, 09:54:42 pmSo the rugby club has come out as a key issue in this whole saga. JR stated in his interview that rovers have now bought the dons for £100k. He obviously didn't want to do this and felt undermined by it going throughIf rumours are to be believed (and these are just rumours), Watson and Bramall (guided by Baldwin) want to start putting money into the rugby club for reasons believed to do with the fact that it is relatively cheaper to maintain a successful rugby club and that a successful 'sporting club' can potentially be a greater revenue stream for the stadium as a whole along the line. (again - this is all totally conjecture and things I've heard)Interesting angle to think about when people claim this is all to do with land. Thoughts?Shit.I find this very worrying... but unfortunately very believable. If its true, I can see Rovers falling quicker than Ashley Young in a penalty area.