Quote: Frank Whitcombe "I'm perfectly fine sat up here on my high horse, we may have been bad publicity for the sport for some time, but through it all we used our central funding and our own money to continue to contribute to the sport.
We run an academy giving young men opportunities to play professionally, we run a women's team giving young women an opportunity to play the sport , we run a reserves team, we continue to work in the community and we take hundreds to away games - giving some clubs their best pay day of the year, and whilst we were/are rebuilding we didn't pull the draw bridge up and hoover up central funds to merely survive by running a single team built by picking off other clubs better players to play at a high school 4G facility - how on earth are they contributing to the sport, and how long is it since they did?
I'm not questioning their right to exist, merely supporting a view held by our chairman - I think it's still okay to have an opinion?!'"
Well put Frank Whitcombe, Its totally frustrating that the "Halo" surrounding them, is disproportunate to anything they have achieved that has benefitted the sport in general. But I'm glad they had the opportunity to survive. Although looking at the injustice we had with Green dismissed for nearly all the second half, and then to be found not Guilty (Red Card sufficient punishment is the result, I understand) after watching the video of the incident, I wondered why he was sent off.
It looked very much to ordinary supporters like a hidden agenda or sheer incompetance by the officials.
Now who's being contentious?
