With all the sh=ite coming out on the forum at the moment can this be renamed Touching Cloth

I'd also like to add...



Te statement regarding the request for a loan of 500k (I think it came from Blake Solly) came at a time that Martyn Sadler who is completely independent of this was saying (and not in response to said statement) that the club had actually requested that they sprea this years deduction in sky money over a period of five or six years on Radio Leeds.

This is information in the public domain that discredits RFL.

It comes off the back of what we now know we're disingenuous statements regarding the reasons behind the purchase of te Odsal lease.

Also Rimmer's emotive rant about safeguarding the integrity of the game without actually addressing any of MM's criticisms is te oldest trick in the book.

The only reasonable conclusion I personally can draw from the information in the public domain does not look good for RFL's credibility and therefore the integrity of the game.

The blame is at the foot of the various people that have run the club over the years up to this point and who did what when well never know. But IMO the level to which the RFL are culpable must be investigated in the interest of the whole sport.

Fans of other clubs moaning about hat they see as apparent special treatment must also want this too?!?

Fans of other clubs had every right to be aghast at the actions of the RFL over the stadium. I am still astonished that they were able to get away with that without greater fallout. Since then the club has been enveloped in a fog of misinformation and half truths that makes it impossible for any outsider to form an accurate judgement on the actions taken by the various parties including the RFL and the other clubs.

But the withdrawal of the Sky money does seem to me to be akin to throwing a drowning man a lifebelt, but with a huge lead weight attached. It must have been bleeding obvious that it would be impossible for an already hugely loss making company to survive such a draconian penalty. None of the prospective owners have deep pockets. The best that could be expected was for them to make the savings necessary to eliminate the previous losses, there was never any realistic prospect of them also making up the loss of Sky funding.

At the moment I really wish the RFL had let the club go under during the Hood regime. It would have avoided the waste of the fans £500k, perhaps more importantly would avoided the drain on the enthusiasm of the fans to start again. If we had gone bust two years ago I think there might have been a chance of the club starting again at a lower level. Now I don't.

Exactly if RFL thought fit to put BB2014 into special measures for the integrity of the game why did they not put BBholdings into special measures instead of handing out 700k unsecured loans in secret to allow them to flog season tickets at less than half price? Whilst BBHoldings were telling everyone that the higher uptake in tickets and merchandise more than covered the cost of course (I have the Rlw article at home on that one) - even though RFL knew what was really going on.

I agree. Sadly the damage is done now.