Right. These are questions I want clear YES/NO answers to:
1 - Was the admistration primarily intended as a means of removing Khan from the picture?
2 - Did the RFL work closely with and provide advice to Moore & Co, regarding bringing this about?
3 - Did the RFL work closely with Moore & Co, or at least did they provide active and constructive advice, regarding entering administration?
4 - Were the RFL involved in any way in the setting up of the (ultimately aborted) prepack?
5 - Did the RFL provide advice, input, guidance or indications of likely outcomes to Moore & Co, which they relied on in setting up the prepack?
6 - Did the RFL tell Moore & Co - or at least did they leave them with a clear understanding - that there would be no points deduction for entering administration and immediately exiting through a prepack?
7 - Did the RFL see or request business plans and/or financial projections from Moore & Co prior to administration?
8 - Did Moore & Co propose and intend to repay all the non-Khan creditors, and if so is there demonstrable proof that this was intent not just words?
9 - Did the RFL give Moore & Co full opportunity to present and discuss their business plans, before ruling on the points deduction and the (debilitating) ongoing special measures?
10 - Had the club new players lined up ready to join, whose signings were stymied by the continuing special measures?
11 - Were Moore & Co given any prior indication that special measures could or would continue after the administration?
12 - Did the RFL impose a 6 point penalty not a 4 point penaly because they had determined that NO creditors would actiually be repaid?
Maybe we will get answers in the formal report. I rather doubt it,though. Others may be content to let the matter lie and "move on". Not me. I will not be content until I know the answers to the above questions.
I suspect there are people who know where the bodies are buried, who hitherto have largely kept their own counsel. I would very much invite and urge any such people to now put in the public domain any (further) information that might cast light on anything that has gone on.
I suggest that, only when we know the answers to these questions (and doubtless some others that I have not included) will ANYONE be in any position to judge whether the destruction of the Bulls over recent months has been justified, unavoidable, inevitable, accidental, criminal, or just plain reprehensible?
And who is actually to blame for the destruction, so they can be judged by history accordingly.
