Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66%

Re: Opening SL weekend sees attendances tumbling by 12.66% : Fri Mar 22, 2013 10:02 pm

SmokeyTA wrote:

No, you silly billy. You really should add something about improving your comprehension skills to those wonderful SMART objectives of yours. I didn’t ask HOW a timing issue would lead to Leeds declaring a record profit. I asked WHY Leeds would allow a timing schedule to lead to a record profit.

Leeds, like all companies, will pay tax on their profits. Why would they engineer, or allow, a timing issue to lead them to declare profits higher than they otherwise would have been? It seems awfully strange for the best run RL club in the country, one which has a history of minimising its tax exposure and working with other companies within its group to do so, to allow themselves to be over-exposed to tax because of “amortization schedules, depreciation, interest, revenue recognition rules, etc, etc etc” I.E things they were aware of and able to plan for.

Do you know? Or was ‘timing issues’ just a guess, a hope, a punt, just a reason which meant you didn’t have to look at your own bias, and not in anyway grounded in evidence or logic? Just something which allowed you to ignore results that didnt fit with your bias.

I can't even remember what bias I'm accused of this time. Are you now saying that it's good that Leeds attendance is falling because it makes them more profitable? Am I biased against or for this phenomenom? I'm lost, I really am. Can we just stick with my bias against the RFL? It's all too confusing trying to be biased against everything.

We really are in the twilight zone here...attendances are just fine, but hang on, even if they're not, it doesn't matter, because you can make just as much or more profit with less fans. You're talking utter bilge.