With hindsight, mortgaging the ground must go down as the worst move of the last 20 years or so.

Well scarlet you making your self look a right plonker its come to light that yes glover did ask for the roofs to be fitted, its a shame he didn't pay for them and left for MC to foot the bill.
Now please crawl under the nearest hide away

If that's the case (and I don't doubt for one minute it isn't) then I think you are best leaving this alone Scarlett.

Is sp ag or je? Seems to be defending them a bit too strongly

well said snowie!

People who pontificate without very good knowledge of the subject are very dangerous.

In defence of a good mate in Snowie,how much do you think it would have cost MC and Co,just to get the ground to an acceptable level if we'd used contractors for the work and time involved,a lot more than nowt I believe.

I thought Glover wrote off over £1.5 Million of his own money. I assume that would have paid for installation of the roofs.

I thought £600,000

How much of other people's money did he write off by not paying bills?

Come off it, Dewsbury's round is ten times better than BV especially now there is terracing at the ends.

Bit like now there wasn't a choice.

The RFL had set stringent requirements to reach franchise standards (yep remember yet another damaging and short lived RFL white elephant). The club needed a cash injection to meet them and we had pre crash Thornes Park promised to us. It was a gamble we had to take as SL survival was and still is IMHO paramount. It was a calculated gamble we had no choice but to take. We were strung out to dry by the Council and the RFL. The Council renaged and continues to do so. The RFL brought in the franchise which IMHO was good but then dropped it to suit themselves leaving us in limbo having sold the family silver to pay for stuff a year later we didn't need.

Ted made errors but was generally a victim. Also worth noting that the club had sold the ground before and it was Ted who got it back so it wasn't the first time. Sadly this club has been run badly since the 1960's maybe even before and we have inherited the mess with none of the glory.