Quote: mickyb1234 "Just a question for Gutters oops enig, so if Mr Hughes had actually pulled his money and walked, which forum would you have been posting on? This one would not be in existance as the 6 people left on the staff would probably be working elsewhere as the club would not be in existance.
Not sure if you noticed, no one was rushing into rescue us! and the RFL would have happily let us drown!'"
Michael,
I have often wondered why it was that Blake Solly was sent down to assist in the negotiations with AK when we were looking for a new home. I have also wondered why it was that the RFL, through Blake Solly were prepared to offer financial assistance to the Landlord to market us in 2014, when all previous requests for financial assistance to promote THEIR game had been met with offers of advice. Given St Dave of Swinton doesn't like taking advice, surely the RFL would have been better to simply offer AK advice, rather than handing over cash?
Then it struck me. There were 13 home, 13 away and 1 Magic fixtures that had to be fulfilled as part of the contractual obligation to Sky, so rather than hand a poisoned chalice to a championship club who would have surely gone straight back down, or risk losing revenue from SKY, the RFL "magicked" a budget out of nowhere to get us a home and therefore through 2014.
So, your premise that the RFL would have left us to drown, whilst not without foundation, is nevertheless unproven.
As for where would I be posting? On the VT of course.....there is certainly more to RL than a badly managed outfit in the capital
