To put a few things straight.
Rovers owned Belle Vue. When we left Belle Vue, one of the coniditions of moving to a new stadium was that it was run by an SMC (Stadium Management Company), whether thats down to a control freaky type council I'll let you decide. Anyway, first few months after it opened, the SMC seemed to set up against the Rovers and all tenant clubs, with OTT stewarding, ridiculous pricing etc etc - they refused to co-operate with the clubs basically, and at one point wanted to charge our own FITC something like 15k per annum for one little office. They had two concerts last summer (Groover from Vancouver and McFly) and lost something like 500k on them, then the SMC sold alcohol to kids and lost the license - and more money. Now, they'v lost between 2 and 2.5 million since the stadium opened in January 2007. However, for the place to be sold, the council has to agree to sell it, as they still kinda have the final say on activity there - the SMC was set up by a load of ex council people. Jobs for the boys if you get my drift ;)
They've already had a few emergency meetings to discuss activities involving the SMC, and if it does come up for sale at some point, DRFC will be interested in buying it, and can afford to buy it. The SMC's incompetance has nothing to do with Rovers. Yes, we are paying effectively a pittance for using the stadium, but that was what the council agreed to let us pay and there's watertight documentation for us to pay that for another 23.5 years.
The only thing Rovers related about the Deepthroat Stadium is we play there. We have no running in it to do whatsoever, so the empire built on sand statement is complete tosh.