in bad days everyone gets criticised and in good days there's praise for gary, brian or the players (even kirke) but little praise for the man who refinanced and restructured the club.

Caddick deserves great great credit. He has worked very well with Gary H in turning our great club around. Very good businessman

I'm sure within the club he does. He isn't often seen though in the way that Gary and the players are, which I'd great credit to him in my eyes.

Who would you prefer as your owner, caddick or marwan. No contest.

The last thing I heard about him was back in 2011 after Catalan heavy away defeat with McDermott under big pressure. After game he took McDermott to one side and said something along lines of we are all behind what you are doing and want you to keep the faith with what you are doing. Brian mcd referred to it after gf win v saints.

Probably not but he probably likes it that way. He's the perfect owner, leaving everything to people who know what they're doing. He's the anti-Koukash.

But I do know that's he's very interested and he takes a keen interest in even the smallest details.

Perfect summary really.

Yep. Which is probably why his construction company has gone from strength to strength too.

Cracking owner. Gets in the right people at the top, keeps on top of things but also trusts those people.

Exactly, if he was interested in being lavished with the credit then he could easily put himself in the spotlight like some other men love to do.

From what I've heard of him he sounds like he enjoys nothing more than the players and coaches taking the credit.

Friday night I thanked him for 'saving the club' and proposed moves to elland road , he replied that putting money in was the easy part compared to turning round the business side.

Which didn't sound as hands off as appears. or just being in it for the rugby union as was sometimes said.

It was dark in 96,97 but thankfully we built upwards rather than the quick fix of koukash.

It tells you a story of how he prefers to stay out of the spotlight when you still have quite a few people from other clubs who actually think GH is the owner.

I think Fans are aware of his huge input and whenever you see him around HQ although very approachable he is some what uncomfortable if you heap praise on him for his ownership.
I think putting the ££££ in to save us aside his biggest and best act was getting and keeping GH it's the perfect Owner/CEO partnership whereas that gobsh##e with a few nags isn't worth having to clean the bogs!

Many years ago, in the Wigan board room at a Wigan V Leeds game, I had the good fortune to have an extended chat with Mr Caddick and found him to be both a nice chap and very passionate about the Rhinos. I give him tremendous credit for how well our team has performed and for the strength of the overall business. Together with GH they have built a very slick operation.

Caddick has never put any money into the RL - he guaranteed the overdraft. The fine state it is in now is down to its trading success not its owner ploughing money in.

Indeed - although there are inter-company loans on the balance sheet of both the Union and League side which relate to Caddick Group so some money has clearly been shifted around even if just for accounting (and probably tax) purposes.

Watching the Leeds United game (and pretty much everything that's happened there over the last decade) and even more thankful for who we have running the Rhinos ship over the same period compared to the dodgy Italian who makes even Koukash seem half decent.