More likely mid-September for the end of the 8's, but not sure how the home-away ratio works. Our potential last home game, for example, could be before the end of the 8's.

Depends how confident i was of staying up and how confident i was of Newmarket happening.
Moving away = dead.
Staying at BV in championship = dead.
Staying at BV in Superleague = a pulse.
Personally i roll the dice for SL survival and stay as the BV housing planning renewal will have gone through during that time and as we were still there the condition would likely remain in place. And one way or the other we will probably know whether Newmarket will ever happen. But then i ain't an accountant.

We won't know until after the last round of the regular fixtures at the end of next month.

Well I've read all the way through this post and while no body has yet said it it looks like a who blinks first situation.

As regards the last game I would love it to be Cas, Worst possible scenario would be Hull in the last game at B V. It would be a disaster.

If Wakefield are playing rugby somewhere near Wakefield, preferably In Wakefield I'll be paying to watch.

My worry with all that is that our future is in the hands of certain council employees and a group of bankers all of whose best interests aren't likely to include us. I desperately hope it works out but i also desperately fear an Oldham situation. I guess only time will tell if it turns out to be the right choice, fingers crossed.

As an aside and not wishing to cause thread drift or derail this one, I know how people feel and it is unnerving, and even scary, that the club finds itself at this cross-roads through no fault of its own, but it is and decisions have to be made, however hard they might be but... nipping over here and looking at this bunch of (mostly) clueless numpties get all over excited about the merest glimmer and tiniest possibility of the demise of another fellow RL club, makes all the hard work so worth while!
Night everyone!

Thank you... I think! However, lets address your points.

They did not have a gun to their heads but equally the lease was one small part of the club as an overall entity and business, and thank god they did take it on... or it would already be dead! They did not sign or agree the lease and the question is do you not take on the club and let it die because it was so burdensome making it not worth taking any shot as saving the club? Well, given they have been paying it since they took over then the answer is clearly no, but that still does not mean it was ever fair and reasonable!

I don't think they have whinged about it being too high, they have said it is too high because it clearly is (that is not hard to see) and indeed they have tried to negotiate a reduced fair new rent. They have made two very fair and reasonable offers to the BOI and O'Hara (trust me, they are reasonable, they are not trying to take the proverbial) and assume they had hoped for negotiations to continue, but as of this morning, they had not heard from either O'Hara or the BOI about the offers. So, I think is feeling that the club has brought on a game of brinkmanship with the BOI is not strictly true, I think it is the BOI that have done that and not the other way around.

Today was the day you either keep paying the lease into next year or give notice to quit, there were only two choices and one of them had to be taken! I don't think anyone on this thread and any others on FB etc has posted what I consider to be a good enough reason to keep paying what is a very large lease cost for a poor facility for the money being paid!

I also think that your opinion of the BOI, who are still up the creek with no paddle, is over-simplistic! I know someone who is a very good friend of the BOI CEO and he is indeed a very smart man but like my friend, he is a banker, and if this ever got as far as his door I am sure he would want to know why asset on the BOI books, albeit one that is showing as a negative asset, that was generating a very good income in the circumstances is now suddenly costing the bank £5k a month it doesn't need to spend and adding to that negative asset value on the books? He will not give two figs about what it has made him to date, he will want to know why it is now costing him money when it didn't have to! I think the BOI plan is simple, don't spend money when you don't have to... they can play the long game and while ever some money is coming in and they still own a negative asset, that negative value continues to head towards the positive, you don't want it going back the other way!

I think the BOI executives will only want to know, is this the best deal we could do under the circumstances, did we draw out a potential bluff? The answer, unless you know different, it going to be yes, we did and we are still getting an income and if of course a better offer comes along in the meantime, we will reconsider our options.

being force to make a business decision I meant, means a hole lot to me to stay but I too have to been looking into a plan b but this has happen fear quicker than expected

Some culpability does lay with the club, albeit not the current incumbents. Hindsight is a wonderful thing but had Ted Richardson not been so quick to sell the ground to himself without an cast iron alternative to move to the club may have still owned the ground and have an asset of which to borrow from to aid redevelopment. I'm not sure whether it would've been lost as part of the administration process but the point remains this situation was sowed nearly 10 years ago.

As an aside, did we ever find out what happened to the missing half (c. £1.2m) of the total selling price of BV?

Fair points but by the 'club' I did indeed mean the current incumbents as you surmised. My hindsight is bloody marvellous but I don't think Ted had many options at the time and had he not done something, it would have died.

As I understand it the £1.2m (or variations of that figure) never really existed and while Ted gave the club circa a £1m from the deal he ultimately got nothing because he owed the BOI and defaulted on the mortgage. It is the BOI who lost out and are owed money, the only party that benefited from any real cash were the club. Trust me, Ted did not pocket any of the BOI cash, the club did, but he didn't.

I really don't think it will happen mate, but as you know, as a business you have to plan and take tough decisions. The club really only had one option, despite what anyone may post, and they rightly took it in the best interests of the club and fans. I would not start panicking just yet!