3 things

1. You forget Salford is only 10 miles away.

2. They struggle to attact 1000 people to home games, let alone 2000. Some of the amateur clubs have had bigger crowds on a Saturday than the Pro Club have got on the Sunday

3. Your spot on about what you say about El Presidente. Some accountant he is, glad he doesn't do my books.

In my view big money backers, do not go into these ventures to provide money without clauses. most invest money into the clubs as directors loans and do expect a return if the club becomes more successful. I suspect that this is what happened at oldham and also suspect that the vast majority of outstanding debts at Oldham will now be owed to Bill Quinn the recently departed "sugar daddy".

totally untrue. You wil get better returns on your money by keeping it under the bed than putting it into a RL club. The overwhelming majority of shareholders / directors / owners are ikely to know this.

Feel sorry for lower league clubs struggling.

Indeed they are