Re: £300,000 extra for clubs : Tue Mar 04, 2014 5:29 pm  

kinleycat wrote:

Its a valid point but i guess the arguament would be that they should never have given anyone protection in the first place.
The more the fish struggles on the line the more the sediment murkies the water.

You could say that we weren't actually protected but were beneficiaries of the RFL protecting themselves. It would have been hard to explain how they gave us a SL licence and then had us go under within 6 months ie Jan 2012 when they gave us the loan for the ground. (sorry I meant iconic ground)

Re: £300,000 extra for clubs : Tue Mar 04, 2014 5:39 pm  

Bulliac wrote:

Since around 2005/6 in fact, after the then board had spent all the assets buying success and then left. Financially, it's been firefighting ever since, and whilst the directors since have far from covered themselves with glory, they have certainly had a bit of a poisoned chalice to contend with.

Unfortunately they tried to fight the fire by throwing more bundles of cash on it

Re: £300,000 extra for clubs : Tue Mar 04, 2014 8:03 pm  

rugbyreddog wrote:

You could say that we weren't actually protected but were beneficiaries of the RFL protecting themselves. It would have been hard to explain how they gave us a SL licence and then had us go under within 6 months ie Jan 2012 when they gave us the loan for the ground. (sorry I meant iconic ground)

As ever it is hard to differentiate between the RFL helping themselves, helping a favourite or making a fudge of the whole shabang!!
Whichever way you look at it there help isn't always that helpful!!

Re: £300,000 extra for clubs : Wed Mar 05, 2014 12:57 am  

It does seem evident that only true conspiracy theorists would believe that the RFL have favourites. All they are doing is constantly trying to cover up their own mistakes.

Re: £300,000 extra for clubs : Wed Mar 05, 2014 7:54 am  

According to the T&A today, we have so far had £250,000 of this money. £50,000 held back until ownership resolved. Bulls have used the money to pay wages.
This blows a lot of the stories above out of the water.Especially the one about us getting absolutely nothing because we are in Admin.
Money distributed last month - at which point surely we could have been told.

Re: £300,000 extra for clubs : Wed Mar 05, 2014 8:07 am  

melly88 wrote:

Are RFL pay their wages?? or using this £300k?? I believe the monthly wage bill was approximately £200k before Sammut, Carvell, Scruton left... suppose you can add Winterstien and Heath maybe even Bateman to that?? would say the RFL have a good couple of months wages from there...

Sounds crazy I know... BUT we have learnt anything is possible!

Maybe it wasn't such a crazy idea after all...

Re: £300,000 extra for clubs : Wed Mar 05, 2014 8:08 am  

melly88 wrote:

Maybe it wasn't such a crazy idea after all...

There's a desk cleared at Odsal for you.

Re: £300,000 extra for clubs : Wed Mar 05, 2014 8:12 am  

hindle xiii wrote:

There's a desk cleared at Odsal for you.

Bit of a long commute!

Re: £300,000 extra for clubs : Wed Mar 05, 2014 8:15 am  

melly88 wrote:

Bit of a long commute!

Excuses, excuses.

Re: £300,000 extra for clubs : Wed Mar 05, 2014 8:17 am  

Does this now mean there is not enough money in the bank to cover this months wages??

ALSO- Is it bad press release to say RFL are paying last months wages or RFL stirring the pot some more??