I think almost everyone with any interest in the club, either directly or indirectly, is convinced of Gus Mackay's gross incompetence and inadequacy for the role he is/has been employed for.

What you probably have to have some direct experience of is the self-serving and borderline evil lies he'll tell to suit himself regardless of the damage he does to others.

You see a bit of it in the flat out lies he talks to places like the BBC in order to promote himself.

But he's demonstrated some real evil in the way he's bullied some staff and players into signing compromise agreements which disadvantage them under the premise that their payments won't be paid until they sign and/or won't be paid at all because "the club will go under". He added to that that if an individual didn't sign, none of his fellow/former teammates or staff members would get their money either as the club would just close.

The disadvantages he forced on people weren't just financial - they included forcing them to sign away rights and provide indemnities to the club for the club's responsibilities.

Faced with the choice of no money ever or no money to pay mortgages, moving costs, Xmas, etc, he took advantage of these people.

That's the reason people aren't just leaving the club, but leaving the sport altogether and there's so much disguised vitriol towards him on social media.

This doesn't surprise me. I think the club have pulled an outrageous stunt in clearing out players and staff in the way they have (even though some may have deserved it). How much of what we put in our licence application is currently holding true ? Any other club might have been thrown out of SL.

It was a joke.

In reality I wouldn't even waste one of my farts on Gus.

I think everybody but tw15 realised it was a joke.

No. Somebody else took it to heart as well

Bless

I've checked the Pantry and the chest freezer....I've even I called upstairs to the wife to ask her, but it seems we're fresh out of sympathy!

In light of the recent revelations perhaps it's time to rethink a dirty protest?

Thanks for the post meliferra, most informative.
I think I can summarise it by saying that TK is a businessman, where as our current chairman, for all his largesse, ain't.

They are correct to the nearest £1,000......I have no reason to doubt the sources.

1000k+ away fans from Wigan/Saints/Leeds will hopefully help with the profits for AK. Especially on the beer sales. Broncos do have the capacity to sell 5k seats for games quite easily, SL is a bigger product than semi-pro soccer, so potentially we could make AK very happy.

For me the jury is still out on TK ! and will be for another year or so, Khan at Bradford Bulls was seen as a savour for the club and for how long?

You have the 'new ground' factor, people that would usually um and ah will probably think yeah why not it's a new ground.
That could help bring in a few thousand extra over the season.

Bees fans have made it clear on here thet TK will not take on the Broncos and lose money so how DH is going to make this work to get TK to become the owner is a mystery to all of us. However we may as well enjoy the ride in 2014 as it may be our last so im just hoping we see a competitive season to finish off with.

It sounds like the location is certainly good for people travelling with the underground 10 mts walk away which will encourage some curious people to give it a try and this will be much easier for way fans to get to as well so if we do get a competitive team (at least at home) there could be a good atmosphere there.