St Helens Licence Grade : Tue Jul 26, 2011 12:10 pm  

What do you think Saints need to do to get a grade A (is it just the stadium or something else?)

The licence grades awarded for 2012 to 2014 are as follows (current licence grading in brackets):
B - Bradford Bulls (B)
C - Castleford Tigers (C)
B - Catalan Dragons (C)
C - Harlequins RL (C)
B - Huddersfield Giants (C)
A - Hull FC (A)
B - Hull Kingston Rovers (C)
A - Leeds Rhinos (A)
B - St Helens (B)
C - Salford City Reds (C)
A - Warrington Wolves (A)
C - Wakefield Trinity Wildcats (C)
C - Widnes Vikings (-)
A - Wigan Warriors (B)

Re: St Helens Licence Grade : Tue Jul 26, 2011 12:42 pm  

improve the beer and get more fans

Re: St Helens Licence Grade : Tue Jul 26, 2011 12:43 pm  

This season average attendance is less than 9000 hence the B

Re: St Helens Licence Grade : Tue Jul 26, 2011 1:19 pm  

Rommel wrote:

What do you think Saints need to do to get a grade A (is it just the stadium or something else?)

Move to Leeds

Re: St Helens Licence Grade : Tue Jul 26, 2011 1:23 pm  

Stop haemorrhaging money. (The accumulated losses over the last few years are in the region of £2.3 million, and that was up to 2009) Finance was one of the considerations.
The new ground should obviously help with that.

Re: St Helens Licence Grade : Tue Jul 26, 2011 2:19 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

Stop haemorrhaging money. (The accumulated losses over the last few years are in the region of £2.3 million, and that was up to 2009) Finance was one of the considerations.
The new ground should obviously help with that.

Will you stop spouting drivel. The reason for the B grade is the attendances for this year because we are building our own stadium, although if we belive the tripe you post its better to rent and have your games shifted at the whim of the owners.

Just because you want sts to be losing money and to be worse off than your lot doesnt make it true. Wigan are not in any better a position than we are and at the end of the day we will be in a SIGNIFICANTLY improved position.

Re: St Helens Licence Grade : Tue Jul 26, 2011 3:10 pm  

steve wrote: Will you stop spouting drivel. The reason for the B grade is the attendances for this year because we are building our own stadium, although if we belive the tripe you post its better to rent and have your games shifted at the whim of the owners. Just because you want sts to be losing money and to be worse off than your lot doesnt make it true. Wigan are not in any better a position than we are and at the end of the day we will be in a SIGNIFICANTLY improved position. There you are, http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/ldp ... -27129723/

steve wrote: Will you stop spouting drivel. The reason for the B grade is the attendances for this year because we are building our own stadium, although if we belive the tripe you post its better to rent and have your games shifted at the whim of the owners. Just because you want sts to be losing money and to be worse off than your lot doesnt make it true. Wigan are not in any better a position than we are and at the end of the day we will be in a SIGNIFICANTLY improved position. There you are, http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/ldp ... -27129723/

Re: St Helens Licence Grade : Tue Jul 26, 2011 5:01 pm  

2014 will see Saints move up to A grade without doubt. The new stadium will take care of it.

Re: St Helens Licence Grade : Tue Jul 26, 2011 5:18 pm  

We were never going to get an A. Simply if you look at the stadia criteria. You needed to have a stadium ready this year to get an A on just that one criterion.

Re: St Helens Licence Grade : Tue Jul 26, 2011 5:58 pm  

bewareshadows wrote:

We were never going to get an A. Simply if you look at the stadia criteria. You needed to have a stadium ready this year to get an A on just that one criterion.

But we have a stadium though - Widnes. And that quite clearly fits the criteria as Widnes are in Superleague.

I think it will be the crowd issue that left us with a Grade B. We didn't get the minimum 9000 for this season to be awarded an A.