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Re: Peter Hood says Bulls on brink of going bust. : Thu Apr 05, 2012 2:45 pm

Going back to CC and Harrisgate (can't be bothered to go back and find the quote) apart from Caisley not spotting the contract, didn't Harris' own legal team state quite categorically that he was free to sign? That was my recollection at the time.

To be totally honest, I felt a little better at the news that things were stirring amongst the shareholders. Not least because the shareholders jolly well ought to be doing something, it is their chuffing club, is it not? As long as the club is saved I don't really care who the chairman is, and if it turns out to be Chris Caisley, well so be it.

That said, I'm far from being one of those on here who think he's some kind of messiah. Harrisgate and the way he spent the club into one of the biggest financial meltdowns of recent years are two of the reasons why chairman Hood never had an even break; all he will be known for are the austerity measures and financial worries which have bedevilled his reign, though he was never the author of either. As for CC, maybe he has learnt from the past, we all get 'learning opportunities' through life, let's hope he made the best of them.

I'm not sure why this should affect the pledge to be honest, apart from maybe taking the spotlight away slightly. Despite the few obsessives on here, I don't the the vast majority of fans give a flying squeak who the chairman is to be honest, nor do they give a stuff who sits on the board or who the shareholders are, I suspect they feel that having a rugby club to watch is a teensy bit more important.