Quote: Partisan "... if you can the investment, How about we all pool together and buy the club?'"
The 2 guys I have spoken to will only consider investing if there's no Relegation. As for Buying the club? What is there to buy? The only 'ASSET" the club has is about 120 season ticket holders and a store-room full of unsold replica kits. Hughes would have to simply walk away and leave a debt free entity. As it is, if the NRL give us a second side the 2 guys will probably spend their money here, where there is a detailed plan for self sufficiency from day 1.
When discussing the 2 codes here in NZ with people who have already invested in the game and who would look to invest in London, they are stunned at how badly the game is administered as a business and how much money was wasted in London whilst the RFL looked on. Regardless of the millions flushed away by the owner every year, there was the 1.8 million of central funding that was being wasted too.
Rugby League at the top level is dead in the Capital until there is total change at the top of the RFL. Whilst we have narrow minded northerners running the business for the benefit of small northern towns then we'll attract pay as you go sponsors and partners, be told what and when to do by SKY TV and will be mostly ignored by the media.......too which the narrow minded northern fans will cry that it's a RFU/Establishment conspiracy