Quote Adeybull="Adeybull"Except...we still do not know what constitutes the "model club"! So if we do not know the standard against which all applications are judged, how can we have confidence that the process is as near to "fair" as you could expect in the circumstances?'"
I met Nigel Wood once and he told me his model club was Warrington. Granted, he said it after being encouraged to do so by Andy Gatliffe, Warrington's Chief Exec but his exact words were:- 'Warrington are our model club. If we had 12 Warringtons, we'd never have any problems'. He knew I was a Warrington supporter so he was clearly blowing smoke up my Peter Fox but I think he just meant that Warrington are:-
- Solvent
- Have decent facilities
- Have a decent youth structure
- Are competititive on the field
- Attract crowds of circa 10k
Most SL clubs should be capable of most of that with decent stadia I expect. As for a 1,600 page submission - I think I read that Salford's was something similar in terms of length. Got to be either a lot of waffle, a lot of pictures or a lot of draft documents to get that large.
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