Quote Originally Posted by upthemaggies View Post
The league table aside, attendances are without doubt the most important stat of all in this game, finding your "natural level" is finishing where your attendances say you should. That's how we judge if clubs are over or under achieving. Gates set a ceiling on what you can realistically achieve.

Salford, despite the ambition of the owners, are still a very small club (1,900) that finished 20th last season.
They are to certain extent but ultimately it?s your playing budget, how well you recruit and how you manage your players. I get people are frustrated we don?t have a top 3 budget in line with gates but we need new owners if that?s what we want. They were losing 2m a year in the NL, still losing money now to my knowledge so if we want a higher budget, we need new owners that are willing to lose even more money.