wire-quin wrote:I agree with your last line. Be interesting to see if Salford survive.
I get the sense a few clubs in our league and below may go. How sustainable are the Bulls, Swinton, Oldham, Rochdale.......
Some of those clubs may be ok. If they rent stadiums and training facilities when needed, that out going is on hold. It is likely some of those clubs have a fair chunk of pay to pay players so that expense is on hold and they haven't lost revenue from function rooms, bars etc. as they rent stadia and probably don't get that money anyway.
I think the big risk to them would be if any benefactor has to pull future funding due to issues with companies they own meaning they have less spare cash to blow on sport.
I think there's a real risk to some of the bigger clubs who own their own ground, and bank a lot of money from non match day facility hire etc. Usually diversification would be a strong point however, in this strange world, it's suddenly s vulnerability