Chalmers and Lowe addressed the players and staff last night and confirmed their intentions to go part time with no investment and cutbacks forthcoming. Stu Duffy has sent out texts this morning saying he's now in charge with Gary Tasker and will be meeting players individually to decide whether the new club will keep them or what they're worth. No guarantee they will keep Rohan. One of the staff asked if they would get paid this month but the reply game no because of the current HMRC dispute. HMRC are demanding a large security deposit against future tax liabilities, as is their right (powers given to them in 2015) when a person in control has a track record of defaulting on tax payments and has had several business failures such as both Andrew Chalmers and Graham Lowe.
Chalmers has asked the RFL to lend him the £400,000 against the personal guarantee of his property in New Zealand. One final point is Chalmers and Lowe will be based in New Zealand with a UK based management team of Gary Tasker and Stuart Duffy.
Nothing can move forward until the RFL lend the new club money to pay HMRC the six months up front.

I heard the rumour about part time at the weekend. If that is true, I can't see that ever changing. I think once a team goes part time, it's very difficult to then get the money and the players required to jump back to full time (as Sheffield recently found out).

If true (and I say if because I have no concrete evidence to say it is), it's just another part of the downward slide I'm afraid, even if part time is the only way that the club will survive.

Part time won't work at Odsal with those overheads.

If this is confirmed then it's just putting off the inevitable.

I thought Tasker had moved to Ireland and said he wouldn't get involved again. He seems to have appeared out of nowhere.
I don't trust this poster as he has gone from a few posts where he was being abused by players for giving information to posting very often.

I stopped short of saying that, but I must admit it was going through my head.

As always I'll wait to see it confirmed officially before jumping off any cliffs.

why would they say Hi, we have just taken over the club we aren't going to invest in it we haven't got any money how do you guys like that?
Oh and we don't have any money to pay HMRC either we are going to borrow that of the RFL that have just signed the franchise over to us.

why would they bother?

Again I may be totally wrong, but there is no incentive to starting a business doomed to fail before it even starts?
And why would they RFL have picked a bid that resigns it self to the fact it will not be on the start line for the first game.

Also another little point how would a former academy players dad be privy to this information?

Gary Tasker is running the show at Odsal with Stu Duffy. Both being paid by the RFL and RL Cares. Tasker had a meeting with Nigel Wood weeks ago and is desperate to get back involved with the sport. If the RFL do not pay the HMRC liabilities then that's it. Close the doors.

Then lets hope the RFL have nothing and lets close the damn doors finally.

I was relying on you for a soft landing.

Well KCNBABT knows more then Dane Chisholm...