He was worth every penny in my opinion.
Whatever people want to say about him he was such a special player.
I've not seen anyone else that could do what he was capable of and its not like he managed it on just the odd occasion.
He was a class act.

The financial problems at the club had existed and built up over several years.
They were then added to by the Super League war, the unexpected costs of the Whitbread stand and the move to summer.
That's putting it very simply.
You look at our finances at the time and its no wonder the bank were about to pull the plug.

I know for a fact that isn't true.

Wow, right on cue

We're OT for this board but just to be clear, the Carnegie Stand was only partially funded by Carnegie, certainly not fully - Leeds had around £10m in the bank as it was and that was used for most of the funding.

Leeds Met have never had any representatives on the board of Leeds RL or its parent companies. They had an interest in the RU club itself, but had nothing to do with the parent companies.

On topic - Central Park was my favourite away ground and it is still crushing to drive past that Tescos. A massive, massive shame that it came to that.

I bow to your knowledge sir

I think the pertinent point is that it was an imaginative solution and what we have come to expect from our CEO and his Chair, its not enough to simply go around businesses with a begging bowl or wait for a multi-millionaire to come along with an ego who will fund everything out of his own pocket, there was a window of opportunity to involve the University in plans for redevelopment and they both took it, such a shame that it couldn't be extended to include the South and North Stands too and to get free parking on the Becketts Park campus (its ALMOST ajoining land with a little stretch of the imagination and ignoring three blocks of housing) as part of the deal but you can't have everything can you.