Quote: Adeybull "...at least we never stole their main players from which they have never recovered...'"
Aye, if only Keighley had retained Darryl Powell and Darren Fleary, they would have been a powerhouse dominating the game with their 4,000 capacity stadium and fickle fanbase by now.
Instead of which Leeds took their biggest earners off their wage bill and wrote them a cheque for £20k to prevent them going into administration right there and then.
It wouldn't have mattered how many times Keighley would have won the NFP with the playing squad they had, without a ground move and significant outside investment they would never have got into SL. To portray Leeds as being responsible for the decline of the club as opposed to officials who spent money they didn't have chasing a dream that would have killed them is revisionism Stalin would have been proud of.