It looks so much better without the k at the end!

So if/when we don't, yes then!

Firstly, I come in peace. I'm just trying to understand how the club comes to be in such a mess. Where has the transfer money from brough and atkins gone? Added to this the money saved on their wages, the wages of tronc and newton (RIP). Added to that the reported £1.5 million recieved from the sale of belle vue. To still have an outstanding tax bill of £160,000+ and then asking the fans for £500,000. That seems like a monumental mismanagement of finances. How har this been allowed to occur? What were the rest of the BoD doing? All this would need to be answered for me before I could part with any money. Good luck

Trying to run a Super League club on Championship crowds and Season Ticket holder numbers would probably be the short answer.

In a nutshell. I have heard rumours that some sponsors had not paid up also.

We average a gate of approx 5k and our wage bill, year on year, is a pittance. We have recieved over £200k in transfer fees and £130k in handouts in the last year alone, and we get payments from SKY for being a Super League club. And now we are asking for the fans to invest £500k? The same fans who have invested hard earned money time and time again, some even in share schemes. And for what? It's not to secure the future of the club, because we've been here before, and look where we are again.

How are we not spending within our means? I ask, where the hell does the money go?

Only if it was not true.

Top post again, you are on a roll squire! The worst thing I can imagine is finishing bottom iF they want us out they'll have to throw us out.

It's obvious with the admissions over the past few days that the club has a debt position that is at a critical stage.

1. They could release 350k from NM if full planning had been granted and not called in.
2. The RFL refused a 350k loan.
3. Now a 500k share issue.

The RFL have obviously knocked back the loan because it will be for trading/historic debts and now it's time to turn to the supporters to do so.
However hard a decision in the harsh economic light the club has to go into administration. Then and only then would potential suitors step forward to deal with the administrators instead of dealing with the present BOD. You never know this is maybe why the interested parties have stepped back at the 11th hour (it's common sense and practice for them to do so) and what if a deal has been done with the RFL with the interested parties pending the present incumbants placing the club into admin.
It does not make any sense whatsoever to buy debt.
It's a gamble either way.
Place your bets.

heard the rfl didnt give us the cash has they didnt want us owing them cash has they would have toleave us in sl

their value will plummet and it won't be down to performance

why have 3 people in the shop,lets save money, why have a head of sports science, hes a conditioner, why have jk on the bod, cut backs are easy, sack some of the bod moree savings

Good points, I asked Lord Ted all these questions myself and he did admit these are all errors he has made.
However he then pointed out there are examples when he has got it right and he did say he saved a few quid when he didn't employ you

correct