To Scarlet and some others

Lets put you all right here. Yes the club borrowed 3.1 Million to buy BV and old super bowl site.

Yes it has to be paid back to the lender which in this case is WMDC

However there is a 5 year payment holiday so roughly the club still has three and half years before they have to start paying the loan. Therefore right now buying back the ground dosnt cost the club a penny. So Scarlet I hope that puts you right.

Unfortunately, this loan could be quite a financial millstone around the club when payments eventually need to start. The plan is the clubs potential saviour Colin Makie will get further planning concessions at Newmarket. He will then pay off this loan before the payments kick in. He will also supply considerable funds to upgrade Belle Vue. My own opinion on this, knowing the track record of Makie, is good luck with that !.

That’s a pretty good summation of the facts, it does however beg another question re the current outgoings.

If we’ve bought the ground and are therefore no longer paying rent, if we are in the midst of a repayment holiday and therefore not currently paying off the loan or the interest then surely that means we have the rent/mortgage money still in the bank?

Are we saving it up for a rainy day or to fund parts of the redevelopment or maybe to pay the loan when Mackie inevitability refuses to part with a penny.

Maybe the current financial situation has been aided to some degree by the surplus money!

I don’t want an answer from the club, I’d prefer them to stick to official Club announcements when disseminating information to the fans but that doesn’t stop me discussing it on here or speculating with other supporters about it.

Quote phe13="phe13"Interview now on Trinity tv : https://trinity.mysportsonline.uk/video ... field/2587'" As a neutral I just watched that interview and I think CC looks like a broken man, I thought he looked close to tears at one point. Feel for the guy, he was a great player and always gave 100% so it must break his heart to see people not giving 100%. Also, from reading the comments what has happened with Fifita ?

Quote phe13="phe13"Interview now on Trinity tv : https://trinity.mysportsonline.uk/video ... field/2587'" As a neutral I just watched that interview and I think CC looks like a broken man, I thought he looked close to tears at one point. Feel for the guy, he was a great player and always gave 100% so it must break his heart to see people not giving 100%. Also, from reading the comments what has happened with Fifita ?

I don't know but I'm pretty sure we don't have surplus money, only less expenses. With no income I'm sure it's helping a lot but equally this was known before covid so the expenses at the club would have been planned accordingly and then smashed.

Is it me or has that interview disappeared ?

CC is doing his best, with some players who obviously aren't doing their best!
I've said previously, it would be the best for ally concerned if there was a change of coach, but then I think this is the same Chris Chester that obviously coached us so well, when he first arrived, when we were playing attractive RL, and winning! What's gone wrong? Well injuries certainly decimated last season, and this season is like no other I've ever known, and injuries and Covid are wreaking havoc again. In fact we're not competing at the moment we're simply fulfilling fixtures.
Many on here blame bad coaching for our downfall, the swapping and changing of players in positions, questionable signings, I personally have no idea why, but I'm not a coach and I, like many others on here, don't know what's going on behind the scenes and if there is a reason why things have been done as they have.
No new coach would have more feeling for the club than CC, that's my thought, and unless he got rid of some of the underachievers then he would inherit the same problem that now exists.
Having given it some thought I'd like to see first how CC goes when Willie Poching arrives and how they plan for next season.
This season is a write off, next season is the one that matters.
As for David Fifita. Personally feel he owes us. He should now come in and lead by example with a mature and positive attitude.

First let me say without criticism of the coach every club has suffered this season with covid and the aftermath with players having to stand down because of it plus injuries to players admittedly some clubs worse than others, but I'd just like to point out where you have admitted your no coach and like the rest of us are clueless as to what's going on behind the scenes, and that all we know is what we're told which is very little unfortunately, with all that in mind I fail to grasp your point with your obvious blame of Fifita where you say he owes us, for what exactly? things are only obvious to those that know what the obvious is, one thing I will say about Fifita although we can only draw, unfairly in my mind what's gone on at the club with him, he can't be blamed for the rubbish dished up on the field.

Perhaps if he had been on the field we might not have dished up such rubbish ??
Just a thought...

Same here, link was to a TC interview with Milky after the Salford game

Aye perhaps yer right, but then again perhaps he wasn't in a position to be on the pitch trying to stop such rubbish being served up eh!!!

TBF he was supposed to be on the field during the 58-0 loss against Catalans.....

Fair enough but 16 other player's were in the team ,how many times as he carried the rest of the team