Quote: His Bobness "I'm surprised if the parachute payment remains after Leigh & Widnes both took it and then went into administration.
I've certainly heard nothing about it being guaranteed it's really up to the SL clubs and after it being completely wasted 2 years running there is understandably a reluctance to keep shelling it out.
It's only £500k anyway which is way short of the £1.8m which SL clubs get. Make no mistake relegation would be a full blown disaster for Rovers and the club would probably have to make most of the playing staff part time.
We need to stay up no question.'"
Widnes did not get it. The SL clubs pulled it back when they realised what was happening which was one of the reasons Widnes were in such big trouble.
It is guaranteed, it has been agreed a few months ago and it is not 500k, it is more. Should Toronto pass the due diligence and perhaps more importantly beat York, Leigh or Toulouse and go up, it is likely the parachute will increase by around another 10% as the 12 current SL clubs will share their 1.8 mil on top of their own.