Is the fact that the 12 pt deduction was against the old company and therefore how can the new company be penalised for a Company that has been liquidated ?

My understanding is that it cannot be held responsible for any debt or expenses of the Club (business) which was liquidated legally by the Administrator. If you read the administrators report (page 5) a better picture emerges and the RFL has much to explain?

I wouldn't be so confident if I were the new owners, some employee rights are protected when transferring employment from an insolvent business to a new one that is effectively the same business, taking over existing intellectual property rather than assets.

[iIf your employer is insolvent and their business is being transferred or taken over by another company, your employment rights might be protected, depending on the type of insolvency proceeding. There are some differences to the protections offered during a normal transfer.[/i

Employees are entitled to make claims of the new business for any shortfalls in monies owed, if the National Insurance fund doesn't cover all that's due.

[iIf your ‘transferring employer’ (the employer you were originally employed by) is going through insolvency proceedings, you might be owed money by your transferring employer. The responsibility to pay you the full amount of the money owed does not transfer with your employment contract to your new employer.

Your new employer is only responsible for the amount left after you have been paid from the National Insurance Fund. You should be able to make a claim for part of it through the National Insurance Fund for:

salary
holiday pay (for days taken but not paid)
You cant claim redundancy pay or notice pay as your job has not ended.[/i

Remember this is civil law, so it could go either way depending upon the day and whether the judge believes this was actually a transfer or takeover of an insolvent business, as it wasn't liquidated at the time that could well be the clincher.

Whilst it appears obvious that the oldco is culpable, I think the status of the oldco at the time and the negotiations going on separately held by the RFL muddies the waters enough to see it going the players way - if I were the new owners or RFL, I'd be making provision to settle for sure.

I wonder where Nige and Ralph put that money they took for rugby debts!!!

Back to the original topic of this thread - I simply won't be buying a season ticket until I see the type of squad we have assembled.

So the sooner the owners share their retained list of players for next year the better to get sales moving!

We have assembled half decent squads before only to go bust ,so waiting offers no guarantees...

Wonder if the banks will have anything to say if its proved that we were not liquidated. Did they refund fans season ticket money from the old co because they believed it was liquidated and had not and could not honour the season tickets, and it was now a new club. If it comes out that the RFL allowed the club to be fetched out of admin (which a 12 point deduction and staying in championship says could be the case) maybe,because I dont know the law, the banks refunded money when they did not have to as the same club still existed.
This court case could leave the RFL with a lot of questions to answer.

I wonder how something like this could be so badly handled, with negligible clarity and questionable practice. But then put the RFL into the equation and it doesnt surprise me at all.
Total shambles - they are not fit to be a governing body.