Aren't they putting all their spare cash towards "The Polar Ford Claws"?

Have you seen the letter?

Letter? Do tell!!

Nick Fozzard has tweeted " I'd like everyone to see the letter Polar Ford sent to Jack Fulton, It paints the picture perfectly"
Taken from his Twitter so nothing slanderous here.

Can we assume that Eric France probably owe us several months installment on their sponsorship which was £100k+ (total). Could this help to explain the CCJ situation?

In this day and age sponorship from anyone will be hard to come by, and anyone who doesnt reconise that are either blind or crazy.

Plus the inconvieiance of rebranding
I understand that Eric france allways said if you could get some one he would step down so am sure if the club could have then they would have.

Credit the company with all the monies they have put into the club at lease and lets not gloat on the demise on what has been an excelent sponsor.

for the club this becomes a cash flow issue too and with all the ccjs allready !

Time to ring round some of those contacts in Brian Barwicks little black book of contacts that he mentioned on more than one occasion on this weeks boots and all me thinks!!!

No - not seen it.

James Elston did tell the Supporters Trust at the last meeting that cashflow was an issue. We are owed more money in than we owe out, but like with every other business it's balancing that that becomes difficult.
If we're not getting paid what we're owed, it's difficult for us to then find the money to pay what we owe.

Having said that I still think the CCJ's issues are on the whole people trying it on.

HANG ON....

I'm missing something...

surely HMRC must have known at the start of this year the amount of unpaid tax this company owed.... Why the HELL did they not intervene (if possible) uon the announcement of a six-figure sponsorship of WTW.

If I were the tax man, I'd be saying "whoa whoa, hold on, this six figure sum, forget WTW, we'll have that"

And do WTW or the RFL not look into the stability of sponsors before agreeing?

Cas had a similar thing with Probiz, he didn't pay us... but he's ended up at Featherstone now!

Neglegence from pretty much everyone involved here isn't it????

...depending on te information available at the time, obviously.

Does this happen in any other sport? sponsors just not paying?

The EF sponsorship deal was announced over 12 months ago so its unlikely any investigations would of taken place at that point. It ran 2012-2014.

HMRC have no powers to intervene in day to day operations, only avenue open is via Courts, which is what they have done.

Fairy snuff...

just seems a little flawed to me - EF ploughing (loose term) moey into wakefield when they owe £21,000,000 to the tax man.

I wouldn't be happy at this at all

Any business spending money that it cant afford is in the same boat then - or is it just cos it affects us?

No I'm not saying its just Eric France in the world who've done that.

But given the fragility of most rugby league clubs (especially given Wakefield's history over the last 5 years) it does seem irresponsible.

It's frustrating to see you guys clearly turning a corner, then having more obstacles put in front of you