First owner to put their club up for sale this season? : Tue Nov 04, 2014 9:45 pm  

Could be a toss up between Pearson and Koukash

Re: First owner to put their club up for sale this season? : Tue Nov 04, 2014 10:53 pm  

Willie Manu will be the highest paid player at fc next season. ouch!!

Re: First owner to put their club up for sale this season? : Wed Nov 05, 2014 9:30 am  

AP is showing signs of cut'n'run and KouCash is scouring Oz for a club; but I doubt there would be any buyer for Salford, unlike FC who still have a good fanbase of 10,000 or so albeit no tangible assets of note.

Re: First owner to put their club up for sale this season? : Wed Nov 05, 2014 11:32 am  

I'm not surprised Pearson is making the noises he is, any business that loses 30% of it's customers in 4 years would be on the critical list!

What price loyalty?

Re: First owner to put their club up for sale this season? : Wed Nov 05, 2014 1:21 pm  

I'll go for your nearest and dearest.
Koukash will only get part ownership of Knights and has hinted about moving over to Oz in 2016.
Pearson has started blaming the fans (similar to the Dr) but has insulted the Hul FC supporters with his comments like "do you want your club to become one of the smaller clubs of SL?".
The signs that he is ready to run are there for all to see.

Re: First owner to put their club up for sale this season? : Wed Nov 05, 2014 5:27 pm  

Tigerade wrote:

The signs that he is ready to run are there for all to see.

You see I'm glad you said that and not me, or any of my Rovers buddies.

Re: First owner to put their club up for sale this season? : Wed Nov 05, 2014 6:27 pm  

SirStan wrote:

You see I'm glad you said that and not me, or any of my Rovers buddies.

Cracking avatar stan

Oh and how obsessed is this thread

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Re: First owner to put their club up for sale this season? : Wed Nov 05, 2014 8:07 pm  

Much as there might be a wry smile at the owner formerly known as 'relaxed and confident' Adam Pearson delivering such a sobering assessment of Hull's position, it's worth remembering that Rovers have effectively been on sale for a couple of years. And that attendance trends up and (mainly) down have tended to be similar in recent years at Rovers and Hull. He hints or implies that it might be an issue for us too. We'll see, I guess.

Re: First owner to put their club up for sale this season? : Wed Nov 05, 2014 10:42 pm  

Oh I agree MR, however we have been publicly sailing in the leaking boat for several years now, to hoots of derision from the neighbours. It's hard not to produce a tiny smirk at the realisation that the same neighbours have similar if not worse issues than ourselves.

The big difference, and one which we have always known, is we have fans as owners (with limited pocket depth) prepared to tolerate losses, AP doesn't have these emotional ties.

Re: First owner to put their club up for sale this season? : Wed Nov 05, 2014 11:18 pm  

Seeing as its bonfire night, shame to dampen yours but pearson did state we are financially viable, yes we are losing fans and money, but apart from the leeds rhinos who isnt? make or break for a few teams this year