Quote: Call Me God "March 2005 we were given the "go ahead" to continue to the end of 2005 season, but had to find a savior by the end of the season or face the circumstances......and Lenagan with the QRL rie in delivered us from that fate. In that season we received the backing of Lewis (not the RFL as a whole) and the vote o our future was pretty close, but we got there. We did not receive a brass farthing from the RFL.....but BAD ADVICE in spades!
Agreed, other than it was Lewis and not the RFL.......who did royally f^^^k us 18 months later by telling IL to walk if he wanted Wigan.......
WE didn't stuff up collectively.....the car crash took 5 long years to happen and we could see as far back as 2009 that we were "going too fast to take the corner"........but no amount of screaming, yelling, advising or communication with the owner, his 2 INSANE CHOICES AS CEO and idiot coaching selections was heeded.......Hughes killed us as surely as he kept us on life support since (probably out of a sense of guilt more than anything else)
Eric is not a popular fella at Mt Smart, but he's about to get NZ$20,000,000 from the AUCKLAND RL and does have a very soft spot for the Broncos.....watch this space!'"
I agree with didn't get a brass farthing from the RFL directly as far as I am aware. They brokered a deal that saw a lot of other people giving London money to get through the season. This is why our attempts to sign players after were rejected, the less willing "donors" thought we were taking liberties with their money.
I also agree Richard Lewis was key and others inside the RFL were uneasy / unhappy. It is public record that it was so touch and go whether the "donors" signed the deal off he threatened to resign if they didn't. However he headed the RFL and think we'd struggle to argue the final deal wasn't RFL driven.
HOW MANY TIMES?????
£20 a ticket and £15 on beer and merchandise.....so an away fan is worth £35. At best, 1,000 is the average away support split across 11 rounds and I am being really generous here, so Toronto, replacing say Wakefield will cost a SL club £35,000.
The minimum turnover of a SL club is £4,000,000 so Toronto instead of Widnes is worth less than 1% of a SL clubs turnover.
There are many valid reasons for and against expansion into America, but "AWAY FANS" isn't one of them. 
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