Weve never paid that much for Ridyard and Beswick surely

Kiss the badge!! Brilliant. I've seen it all now. Some fans are so deluded and still think it's 1953 or something. Priceless.

I remember Sam Barlow kissing the badge in a couple of games for us and nobody can question his loyalty.

Wigan the most successful club wouldn't improve his personal and buisness profile????
Well it would do more good than harm that's for sure!!!

Cas. The word is he walked because they wouldn't let him take total control, not that he didn't want to, decaying ground and all!!!

Same at Fax, my info is they did not want him to have total control so soon as his motives were unclear, as soon as they had doubt and he was asked to back his words up and he didn't get his own way he was off.

In truth Fev were his forth attempt to get into the game, but why, what have they got that he is so in love with so as to spend a "modest outlay" on, allready in the hundreds of thousands.
The trend is, he wants total control with his people in the key positions.

Part quote.
"So I suggest the question should be 'why fev not fax'? And again I suppose only FN or members of the then fax bod could tell us with any degree of accuracy."
End quote.

To think only Faisal had a say in the matter is conservative to say the least, it's not a one way street to decision making. Could it be that all the other clubs did not choose him!!

This modest outlay so far spent will not achieve SL status never mind to the heights of challenging the top teams that he is talking about, to do that he will have to spend millions with a guarantee of nothing.

London the club mentioned to be replaced have had one backer with a figure quoted as 17 million invested in them in the press with what you see now as a return.

If you are a Fev supporter the natural thing to do is close ranks and be protective of the club, if you want to simplify it and reason it was a choice between Fev or Fax that's your choice and if your comfortable with what he has and is doing fine but as you know there are Fev fans that are unsure just as I am.

I was not having a dig or comparing anything with anyone, I really hope it is for the good of Rovers and only time will tell.

They didn't hear him whisper " Goodbye Leigh it's been good, BUT", when he kissed it though.

FC,

I think it just boils down to the fact that FN could not get control within Wigan, Cas or Fax and he would have just been another member of the board. At Fev he has been given a bigger opportunity to have his say. Therefore he has been more willing to "invest" in our club. The way he has done a lot of this is by buying shares which has given him a majority holding in the club. There are dangers in this for us as we have some assets in terms of land (14 acres) however if he was really interested in stripping this why would he not have come to Fev first?

All I think he wants is the kudos of having his company name associated with a successful team and the highest possible level. This is free publicity for Probiz, would you have heard about Probiz without the association to RL? Again there is a danger in here that FN could become bored of this association Fev and possibly leave us in the lurch.

For the moment I’ll take where we are and go with the ride. I have seen many lows during the last 40+ years so I am happy to go with the highs that we have at the moment. To be honest even 2 years ago I thought that there was no way that Fev would be able to get into SL. Although the board at Fev has been working towards meeting the criteria to enter SL (e.g. ground improvements had already started), the introduction of FN has allowed us to accelerate some of this work. Now I actually believe there is a chance that we could make SL, though I maybe just deluded.