It's looking like all the Sky TV money will be retained by the top 20 clubs from 2020 season onwards. The rest of the clubs will get nothing and become amateur clubs.

To avoid this fate, Keighley Cougarshttps://keighleycougars.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/stand-2.pngrl have gone nowhere in 5 years because the club cannot get the funding.

Why?

Because to get public funding, as well as making out a strong case, a club:

1. HAS to have no single individual owning more than 50% of the club
2. HAS to have a minimum of three properly appointed directors and
3. HAS to publish full, audited accounts every year.

Keighley Cougars fails on all three counts. This has to be rectified FAST - or the club goes amateur in two years time.

The coach, his staff, our players and the supporters and volunteers deserve the right off field backing now to avoid the worst happening.

It's to be hoped the club has the right calibre of sponsor to make the right things happen.

Need to look at how Castleford does these things for a clue as to how to run a successful rugby league club.

by the way, would you buy a second hand car from this bloke...

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Probably not. What he did do though is save the club from liquidation in 2010 we've had 8 years of not going bust, he has perhaps stagnated as a director over the last few years. We were particularly unlucky being relegated as the 5th team in the same year Batley had their points deduction returned. I'm guessing a lot of eggs were in one basket that year.

We will have to see what state the club is in on 26th May, but the way I see it it can't be any worse than how the club was in 2010 when he took on the club when I'm pretty sure no-one else would.

Anybody who's thinking about it will certainly need to be brave and have deep pockets but if, after due diligence, Gary Fawcett can't find a new director to appoint, what happens to the club when Gary resigns as a director on 26 May (but remains as the owner?)

Best go bust and start again with new owners and no debts kind of like Bradford Bulls & York.