Quote: Bets'y Bulls "Why would RFL sanction part time unless no other option, this would still mean no players and a problem fixture list starting in 3 weeks time'"
If I were in the new owners shoes I would aim to spend just enough this season to stay up. There's no prospect of promotion so why spend money trying to achieve say 6th place? Better to keep the money and then re-launch and spend it in time for 2018.
Of course there's a huge risk that, if the strategy is to spend just enough to stay up, they don't spend enough to stay up. But it may be the only viable approach.