That’s not to let him off the hook for some of his subsequent failures though, is it?

Genuine question
At what point does this situation become existential? Presumably at some point the RFL will require some sort of guarantee that the club can complete next years fixtures? Does anyone know?

Maybe Hughes has lost us some more IMG grading points under the Financial heading. Lack of ground may be a concern too.

Lack of team, lack of comms also. No points on offer but what happens to the work with the juniors pathway, one assumes with no one footing the bill that withers on the vine or disappears. Reserve team? In or out. If we have no money I suspect out. Basically I think it’s done.

Absolutely not, he has ignored just about every bit of advice he has been given with disastrous effect as we now see.

I guess that also depends where IMG decide to place London. The gradings are due soon. There has to be an argument the previous grading may drop. Category C in League 1 is looking feasible. That would get headlines, IMG's London strategy going as badly as possible.

Very quickly, unless someone can assure the players who wish to stay that a) there's an offer they will accept and b) there will be a club to honour it. If not, the players will soon be signing elsewhere, both RU and RL. Once that happens the club is doomed. Unless someone "investor" comes in with stupid money to drag free agents in from all over the shop. Which wouldn't exactly be a very sustainable start. That's the realistic deadline

If it was football the legal deadline would be the AGM of the club's league, as membership is confirmed there. I'd expect that to be next month some time.

Having been in at its birth, It has only been the last few years that I seriously thought i'd be in at its death.

Hope nobody has the idea of getting a coffin & walking it around all the grounds we've played a home game. We'd be walking for months!!