What about the ambition of the clubs you haven’t decided are part of the 20, why are we allowed to destroy that?

Its because his club is in the 20 NEXT.

Actually i had someone come to me the other day disillusioned with football and took a keen interest in RL's policies and how we go about things. By sports fans, you really mean Leigh fans

Agreed.



Lewis and Wood (Wood being there full time) have presided over 2 farcical ownerships of the Crusaders inside 3 years. They went through an administration AND we have the 11th hour withdrawal. Then we had wakey going into administration.



Now we have learned that during 2011 the RFL gave the Bulls loans of £725000 without ever telling other clubs. They bought odsal without telling other clubs. They bought cougar park and have an interest in spotland ..without telling other clubs.



By all accounts the rfl recommended stobart deal has only 50% of the SL trucks on the road and we are 9 games intothe season.



Dicky and Nige treat clubs like mushrooms. Hudgell is right to question their competence.

You think that the RFL should be disclosing confidential commercial details of one club with all the others?



Really?





You realise that SL is run by the SL clubs and not the RFL, right?

Seriously? You can't possibly be that naive. Hudgell is the only person who would think he could benefit from this letter being leaked. It's no co-incidence the only people on this thread who thinks it wasn't leaked by Hudgell are Hull KR fans. Why did Mr Hudgell not pick up the phone or wait until the next meeting to talk face to face with his fellow chairmen? And why is the letter in that format? If its meant for fellow chairmen only why doesn't he go into detail over issues and propose solutions? Why doesn't he ask for fellow chairmen's views or support and why is he mainly addressing RFL issues? Why not send the letter to the RFL?

Of course it's not.



Good afternoon

When the RFL are bankrolling SL clubs with RFL, not SL, money and when they are buying clubs assetts with RFL money then the clubs should vote on it first - same as P&R, keeping London in SL etc



This is a big no confidence vote in our leaders, as stakeholders how do we get rid?

Not that big - it's just the one fella using the Bulls situation as a convenient peg on which to hang his own grievances; much like Dicky Wright used it last week as a jumping off point for attempts to appease Cas fans.

If that club wants an advance of £700K and to sell its ground to the RFL for £1m+ then I think other clubs DO have a right to know. In fact they shouldmake the decision and not Dicky and Nige. If the Bulls or any other club do not want RFL stakeholders to know their financial business they should look elsewhere for the money HTH.



I also realise that SL clubs are RFL council members. It should not be the job of the RFL executive - Dicky and Nige - to pump money into one or two SL and championship clubs without the express permission of the stakeholders.



Hudgell is right to raise these issues. They have overstepped the mark.

How do you know it doesn't? How do you know thats not just the first page & NH doesn't go on to propose any solutions later on? How do you know he hasn't sent a copy to the RFL?

Answer is you don't.



Can't see what benefit either NH or HKR will get out of it TBH.

I would hope the champiosnhip clubs are wanting a similar debate. When John Kear says the Cougars are the Man city of the championship can there be any doubt that the rfl getting involved with cougar park has helped? Were the other championship clubs invited to vote on whether the RFL bought into Cougar Park?



It is time dicky and nige stopped tampering in this way.

Why just the semi-pro and pro clubs?



RFL money (which is different from Sky money) doesn’t belong to SL or Championship clubs, it belongs to the game as a whole, do you want the RFL to ask every single club, from the bottom to the top before they do anything which costs money? Or are we ignoring the amateur game?