Interesting. Thought the lease ran until 30th of September.

Didn't realise the RFL had taken out a big loan against the Odsal lease. That cheered me up.

Unless by leaving now we save a months rent I suppose

Changing the locks seems an absurd and petty waste of RFL cash. When a tenant leaves, they simply hand the keys back to the landlord. Unless the FRL suspect that we would have cut spare keys to sneak back in, how can they justify this? Bizarre.

I'm looking forward to them sneaking back in and holding 'commando' rugby matches that the RFL doesn't know about.

When Chalmers was appointed, can anyone remember whether he said how long he would commit? Specifically I'm trying to remember if he said a 3yr plan? Of course, that was when Lowe was fit and that must have been a blow. Or am I confusing it with the RFL? Did they ask for a 3yr bond at the time?

I think they just put new padlocks on the gates, as no one could confirm how many copies of keys had been made over the years.

I think the only way I can see of them getting it off AC is liquidation II. Someone has covered the costs of running the club, paying the players involved in the dispute etc and Companies House says that's the director. There is only 1 director and that's AC so if you assume there's about £900k of debt to him he's not going to walk.

If the club are put up for sale and they pull the lease stunt again we know where that ends and if they do add in the lease you'd assume Uncle Marwan would come hurtling over the hill which they would not stomach (though you could assume that now they are staring down the trunk of a big, white elephant shaped money pit they could swallow their pride).

So it stays with AC until it goes bang, no lease sale, no interest AC loses his money. The RFL's p155ing pot if even smaller than ours, they can't do anything.

Looks like we have El Macho at 6 next year...

The RFL have proved to be able to interfere in an administration process and dictate to the administrator who they would accept. Can they interfere in a private sale if AC finds a buyer? If they went down the "fit & proper" route to block it, the new buyer could take them to the cleaners.

That sounds about right I thought he had said he would do 3 years

This appeared to come out after offers appeared to have started - [url=https://www.rugby-league.com/article/39145/rfl-statement-professional-rugby-league-club-in-bradfordRFL Conditions[/url

That's what I remembered, thanks