Quote justarugbyfan="justarugbyfan"richard.lewis@rfl.uk.com nigel.wood@rfl.uk.com Emails will probably be intercepted by some uneducated waste of space on minimum wage who works for the RFL. Anyone got the balls? '" You know me!

Quote justarugbyfan="justarugbyfan"richard.lewis@rfl.uk.com nigel.wood@rfl.uk.com Emails will probably be intercepted by some uneducated waste of space on minimum wage who works for the RFL. Anyone got the balls? '" You know me!

Quote justarugbyfan="justarugbyfan"richard.lewis@rfl.uk.com nigel.wood@rfl.uk.com Emails will probably be intercepted by some uneducated waste of space on minimum wage who works for the RFL. Anyone got the balls? '" Ill give it a go

Quote justarugbyfan="justarugbyfan"richard.lewis@rfl.uk.com nigel.wood@rfl.uk.com Emails will probably be intercepted by some uneducated waste of space on minimum wage who works for the RFL. Anyone got the balls? '" Ill give it a go

Haha we should get a petition going

I'd be up for it!

I'm not starting it!

It'll be your job when you've done attendance table for July

Ill donate ten grand to them if they wanted assistance, just have to dig in my smallchange drawer

Got a reply back from Neil Wood saying the idea is being considered.

There is hope the deal for the University to buy the Racecourse will go through and Moss and Roberts will get shot of the football club to the Trust which would leave the door wide open for Crusaders with a ground sorted to reform and play in either the Championship or Championship 1.

Hopefully escaping with about £2m in their back pockets will be enough otherwise it will be curtains for all pro-sport in North Wales.

I suspect the RFL and the SL clubs will have their hands full financially, dealing with the image rights etc tax disaster that I fear is soon to befall the game.

Is that still the case? I thought it had all been sorted now through them clarifying some rules and eliminating the loopholes?

This thread is pure comedy. If it was not for Hopie and Starbug trying to bring some sense, it would be an expansionists t love in!

So, lets firstly look at the current numbers.

They RFL are now, allegedly, owed an additional £500k, bringing the total to around £1.2 (of course, £700k of that is secured against the Racecourse, but that may of may not be recovered). They have to keep paying the players till the end of the regular season, so that is at least another £100k to add to that. Their is, allegedly, £400k owed to the players pension pot that the RFL, I understand (and quite rightly too!) will fill.

Ok, so that puts the RFL exposure at £1.7m + with only a possible £700k recovery that is a cool £1m that needs writing off!

So, now, having written off that £1m off they are going to stick their hand in their pocket to but the Racecourse. I understood that the Uni were looking at paying around £1.5m for it, so lets say the RFL match that bid and with the £700k already owned that leave an actual payment to Wreham Village of £800k.

So, we are now at £1.8m, and that is before we consider ground running and maintenance costs and actual financing a NL1 side in an area that is likley to see ground well below a 1000 a game to start, in an area that is not really a Rugby area at all.

Sounds like a great plan guys... sod the RFL, why don't you start your own consortium and put a bid in?

The image rights issue had no need to be a disaster for clubs. The issue has been known to clubs and theior advisers for a long time. Those concerned could have chosen to "do a West Ham" and freeze ALL image rights payments until they get a ruling, given that any ruling would at worst only relate to a percentage up to 40%, of the money, not all of it. If they had done that, then they could have built up a fund from which to pay any backtaxes. If they have instead just chosen to continue paying gross image rights payments regardless then they have only themselves to blame.