Funny you should think that because the fans of the certain club in question were more than happy to gloat at our financial misfortunes in the past, and were more than happy to see a certain chairman dip into his own pocket to take our players.
As for your last sentence you don't think that shudds benefited then from our financial demise?

It's called Karma, although not complete yet.

Nah balls to all of them who are in massive amounts of debt. If they want to do a Bradford that’s on them.

Well, thats good news whatever year it is!
Funnily enough I was talking to JM last week at the Xmas Fayre and he said that he'd got into "trouble" from MC about buying new goalposts!
I said, well thats typical JM, as MC is an accountant.....
We looked over at him and I said look at that John - he's got his hands in his pockets now protecting his wallet!!

But we can 't play ourselves week in, week out.

All clubs need to be sustainable.

That's a pretty remarkable effort to make any kind of profit given the economic climate of the last 2 or 3 years! Well done MC & Co.

If the big 4 had their way that’s exactly what’d they be doing.

No. What they want is to play sustainable competitive teams.
The "big four" could quite easily by the big 8.
The point of all this work is to get in that group.

They most likely only owe it to one old man who is absolutely loaded and sees the club as his muse.

The thing that struck me most when I read this article is the level of losses some clubs are running up on a yearly basis. However the same clubs are the ones screaming the loudest to increase the salary cap. It seems the more money they can borrow , the happier they are.

That is clearly stated in the report.

The thing I don't understand is, he could fund a purpose built ground for that club, one that they own and is there for 100 years. That would be someway to leave a legacy.

Instead he tries to chase trophies.

Find it rather odd myself.

The Big 4 are only the Big 4, because they actively sustain a "them and us" mentality, economy and structure for the game.

Whilst it's in the game's interest to grow, it's in the Big 4's interest to keep it just how it is.

They are happy to be the big fish in a small pond.

Hopefully that will change.

The very fact the big four are not the same big four from the first few years kinda disproves that.