I wish I was as "unprofessional" as him, setting up his own firm less than 12 years ago, and now with enough people working for him to allow him to devote more time to his passion.

He' obviously clueless ain't he?

I must admit that it is a slight concern, but your comment that Hudgell is "unprofessional" is without any real back up, in sport he has taken a team from near closure to the best league in Europe and in his personal life runs a successful law practice. I wish i could be that unprofessional.

I think your both mixing up business acumen and expertise with unprofessional. He's unprofessional in his attitude, the way he conducts himself and the way he portrays your club.

Is this The Super League Club of the Year 2008?

Even Hudge get them biting

He has gambled the future of the club IMO. You will seriously need to increase revenue to even start clawing back the money you owe. Look at how long its taken FC to start reducing its debt and we are a much bigger club with much bigger revenue streams. Thats not a dig by the way you are clearly the better team at the moment but we are talking about the actual club. You only have to look at the likes of Saints who get bigger crowds then you and receive loads of prize money yet continue to make a loss to see how difficult it is going to be for Rovers to even break even in the near future. IMO (I may well be wrong) but he has been letting his heart rule his head in a desire to get Rovers as competitive as possible as quickly as possible. Maybe it will pay off in the long run but I cant really see how at the moment.

I have no idea, besides it's irrellevant. I was merely replying to your ill-judged statement

Which is clearly bull-crap given his successful legal "empire"

You are perfectly entitled to your opinion, however mis-guided it may be. An alternative way to look at this would be that if he had just come in and steadied the ship we would have all but dissapeared by now, as we would have missed out on a Franchise and another generation of support would have passed the club by.

He's merely provided the city with a vibrant RL scene, as can clearly be seen by the upsurge in attendences at both clubs since 2006. Without us, you would most probably still be averaging about 10k. Whether you like it or not, having a rival around polarises support and gets people out of their armchairs and into the stadiums.

And you have "selective" knowledge of his actions as Chairman of HKR. As I said at the very top of this thread, I think he has confused opinions of some fans with that of the club they support, however, NH will always receive my 100% support and gratitude for rescuing my club. Other clubs can only dream of having such leadership.

Fair points. All I will say is that IMO you have tried to grow too quickly and it could cost you. Time will tell I suppose and it would be a shame as I enjoy having Rovers in SL despite what I may say on this forum

Correct and pretty much all of my knowledge of him as HKR chairman points to him being unprofessional in that capacity. It may well be wrong but thats the impression I have of him.