It's like all things especially BV things.



I too feel some sympathy for all the players involved including Goulding. Some took it better than others, and if there was ever a player who was going to take it badly it was Bobby - and he had every right too.



However it was never the club that was at fault but rather one person - a certain John Pearman. At the point these top players signed he had taken over the club and was the CEO. He owned the majority of the shares.



Except - he didn't. All the documents were signed but the money never appeared. Then as it all unravelled he did a runner leaving the rest of the BOD with a team they couldn't afford to pay. Hence the CVA.



Pearman was without doubt one of the biggest con men ever to grace RL let alone Trinity - and he was the ex leader of the WMDC!



So the guy who actually owes him the dosh is living somewhere in Amsterdam on last reports.

Why did Pearman do this? I seem to remember he had land that he was going to sell?

Off Queens Drive at Ossett i think, but did he actually own it?

I think it was off Aberford road - somewhere near to the M62!!!

Problem was, although it was "the club" that Goulding a Maloney had issues with, it was the fans who were the target of their taunts and gestures at that final game at Salford.

And you don't think that was a reaction to the fans taunting them???



6 and 2 3's IMO - and should be left behind us now!

Newmarket????

What was the land at the back of the hotel on queens drive to do with?

That was the site for the McAlpine proposal - circa 1998.

In an old Express article they refer to the land as being 'a site on the M62 corridor between Stanley and Whitwood'.