Quote: Wooden Stand "That is complete rubbish.
The disaster has been caused by the Bulls consistently gambling and losing by spending more than they could afford on players and resisting the opportunity they should have taken to start again in Championship 1.
All the people at the RFL did was to try to help save a once proud Club from itself.'"
Thanks for the simplistic black/white view again. I don't think that any RL person could argue the fact that the foundation of the problem has been successive mismanagement.
Unfortunately, the help the RFL have offered has been inconsistent, varying wildly from "light touch" to apparently vindictively excessive.
The short-sighted ness has been a problem, which is probably more to do with the lack of a clear strategic plan from the Rfl. Some decisions, which in the short term seemed reasonable, have with hindsight proved to be damaging in the medium term.
The RFL have said that they have been helpful & supportive. And you take that at face value.
The alternative view would be that they gave a man (Hood) a large chunk of cash to throw at a situation where he had already lost a lot of cash. How much oversight had they? Did they just give him enough rope to hang himself with?
Then they took the stadium. Again, the alternative view would be that they recognised a member club was in a distressed state and took advantage, by taking the only asset they had for below market rate.
They were then taken in by the new owner ( as were everyone else, except they had the responsibility to check & approve) which continued the slow motion train wreck. And that doesn't look at everything that happened over past 6 months.
So yes, as the governing body, with oversight & responsibility for good governance in the game, I think the RFL have failed in this area.
