Quote: Fishermanscap "I meant an investor in a RL club, which I suppose is a contradiction in itself because as you say there is no profit to be had.
In pure business terms investing in a RL club at any level is such a poor choice as to be almost suicidal. Thank the lord there are still a fair few of these masochists about or the game would be dead by now. Yeah some take the mick whilst some are utterly destructive but most club owners are on a hiding to nothing and do their level best and certainly can’t be accused of being in it for the money or in our case not even the glory!'"
Apologies - I misunderstood the original post.
I think there are many good reasons to invest in a RL club - but as you say, profit isn't one of them. MC's motivation however, appears to be pure; he seems to have wanted to stabilise an extremely badly run organisation, and ensure it washes its own face - both of which he has self-evidently achieved. I'm sure he also has aspirations for on-field success, which hasn't quite come off yet, but is much more likely to from a position of financial and organisational stability.
Easy to take all of the above for granted - but we shouldn't; I've seen businesses in a bad (but much less bad than WT at the time) go under - and the fact that he prevented that, then turned things around to such an extent, is quite an achievement.
