What the crowd funding exercise appears to show is that it could be a good way to achieve a specific aim. Pay for the salary of x player(s), cover the costs of travel to our first five games etc. Saving the club:not so much. But if you don’t try you don’t find out. I wonder how ST sales are going. As in earlier post I suspect 500 would be a really strong effort. Put those together and we are circa £250k off our target. Will be interesting to hear what consequences that has. Seems to depend on sponsorships but I assume that work was done by someone no longer employed by company so asking those left to get from nought to sixty on that in 3 months is a big ask.

I agree with you BT re Crowd Funding but feel such a stretching target can often put people off.

Of course we don't know how much notice of Hughes' pulling of the plug the club had but I am disappointed they didn't announce a range of memberships ie a non ticket on at say £50 for those that follow the club but not able to attend or turn the gold or Silver lounges into a Debenture area say for a 3 year membership at £1200 which covered your 3 years Season Tickets. Had 5 years as a Harlequins Debenture holder & very enjoyable it was too. They can of course still do this but the initial impetus has now gone.

I've signed up for 2 memberships & hoping for some non Sunday games so I can go. However, as a Crusader I signed up to Struddy's Life Membership, which in the end only lasted 2 years so very expensive STs they became. Clearly I will of had a poor record on London RL investment if this all goes belly up.

I suspect the club will need to accept a different reality with a rather more fundamental reset.

Yes me too. I suspect the essentials just to put out 13 bodies out and fulfill the fixtures is quite a big sum regardless of the standard of the team. So I assume that’s the first hurdle. It looks a way off but it feels like they are confident of getting to the start of the season. Whether we have the type of team and results that makes people want to go through it again is a big question. The worse we perform, the less interest and income we generate. I’m marginally more confident the team will start next season but thereafter it’s a complete mystery.