Indeed we did and we all stayed strong and united throughout the process, which is somethig you must all do.

Our process unfortunately took longer than it seems to take now (Usually a week or two), we seemed to be in Admin for around 3 years or so (From memory) I stand corrected. Then we had to rebuild and it took a further 10 years or so to get promotion to the Super League.

I feel for you and I'm sure many of my Rovers "brothers and sisters" do too.

Keep the faith and It should all come round again soon, even though it may involve a few years outside of the super league.

Good Luck.

Well, thats not exactly true though is it? Its so typical of us to just shug our shoulders and say "its not our fault" - it happens all the time. Its not our fault:

"Thornes Park fell through"
"We have a crap ground and away fans wont come"
"We owe the tax man and he wants his money"
"We can't attract good players"
"The bank called in its debt over the Sainsbury deal with Ted"
"We lost our best 2 players last year"
"Newmarket was called in for Public Enquiry"
"There's a reccesion and cash is tight"

At some point somebody has to stand up and take responsobility for the running of the club. Yes, we don't have the best hand of cards to play and we dont do too badly on the playing front as a rule, but something is fundamentally wrong with the club. We can't even nearly balance the books each month, something is wrong.

On top of the Sky money we receive and also the general income from a minimum of 5,000 x £20 (OK, not exactly this when you take into account season tickets etc) but thats £100k every 2 weeks for 8 months or so of the year - all this money has gone! Add to this the sale of players, other revenue streams & sponsorship etc and we still don't have enough money without "borrowing" from the tax man??

Something doesn't add up here.........

sorry didn't know you have to have a degree in english to be on here. if you would like to learn a bit about coaching i could arrange a session for you on a sunday morning, we could see if we could add you to the list of players ive brought through as a junior. jamie langley, ben westwood, ben cockayne, rich blakeway. i forgot kieron hyde and james davy out of the current squad. it slipped my mind ive just found my grand final winners medal for coaching the accademy. oh i forgot the junior yorkshire and england camps. kiss it the clubs little lap dog.

If Yorkcourt decided to pay the money owed for the balance on Belle Vue before the winding up petition, and they may decide that it is better to greater improve the prospects of a franchise so they can charge us more rent at Newmarket, wouldn't that mean that administration wouldn't happen and the same board would continue?

Also, why would anyone want to buy the hospitality "suites" for many thousand of pounds when they could just pile up three portakabins and achieve the same effect?

surely if York court owe Wakefield £350k and that will save us from the events of 2 Feb then you would think we had a chance of getting it as its the Wakey fans that are campaigning for the Newmarket site to get the go ahead.

Mr. France for scrap, but not at that price!

Yorkcourt don't owe the money [iyet[/i, because the Newmarket plans were not approved by the SoS.

We did, albeit at a reduced price.

RDM you have been lead up the garden path

Interesting theory. I'd rather a coach be able to motivate his team and put together a gameplan so they perform at the best (and above in cases) of their ability than be able to faff around on Powerpoint to impress.

Would you care to elaborate Jack?