I went to the meeting last night (overweight grey haired, bespectacled soul standing at the back of the room), and (IMHO) I heard a very professional delivery from an owner of a business who was desperate to offer a share of his business to the greater market place.
The forum was a great selling job, not only to most of the assembled faithful, but also to prospective partners.
We assume that there's no spare cash available to the current owners, so what better than a sales pitch to attract would-be investors ( god help them).
Hope its not an overweight, bespectacled, balding bloke with loads of "experience in the world of rugby league!

So either ac offered to sell, or someone offered to invest, maybe a month ago, maybe a week ago. Someone is lying or not telling the whole truth, and someone is looking to maximize mischief/embarrassment.

Not sure what to make of it really, I'll wait and see if koucash tweets in response, surely he won't be able to resist.

If someone approached ac and he said no then I'm not surprised it wasn't mentioned last night. If ac approached koucash and was knocked back, I'm not surprised it wasn't mentioned last night....either way, I'm not surprised it wasn't mentioned.

Hence the phrase, more questions than answers! Someone is fibbing, maybe more than one person. Either way, I'm not filled with confidence.

Someone is telling porkies here - or just being economical with the truth

Will the true slim shady please stand up

Possibly more red herrings than "Midsummer Murders" ?

It can't both be true that Chalmers offered half the club to Koukash, and that he isn't looking for partners.

Either the story is made up, or Chalmers is not being honest

I believe he did mention that he was looking for business partners, just didn't elaborate on the form that would take. I personally assumed sponsors but who knows

None of this smells right, and I think it might just be a way of on-boarding Koukash formally - lots of people think their money has been involved in some capacity all along, and it wouldn't surprise me if this was a way of starting a more public process that makes it official over the off-season!

AC offers to sell 50% and they say no thanks, they offer to buy the club AC says no thanks, and in about four weeks amicable negotiations see them come on board buying out Lowie's share - hey presto, the whole thing plays out just as planned...

A Bulls Chairman being dishonest??!?!?!











I never thought I'd see the day

For some reason the link doesn't work anymore?

You won't get anyone willing to invest at the moment anyway as they would become liable for the massive court bill you will end up with. To be fair on this one though in this instance it will show that the RFL are partly to blame for once.

He's been dropping hints since Chalmers and Lowe took over..

Either Mandy buys in and they own 2 clubs ala the Heatherington's
or we are headed for a merger with Salford.

The club statement was a bit silly as who wouldn't want investment? it would show they mean to move forward, SL or the Championship you need a "money guy" to get anywhere.

Cloth cutting as Fax fans love to tell us about is dull, and who wants to be dull?
aim for the top or die trying is my motto...ha

So a **** stirring article gets published, causes a fuss and various responses and is then taken down with no explanation? Its not anywhere on that site now, I wonder why???

Nigel Wood buying into the club???

also, can anyone find any link to the original press association sport story where this supposedly originated? Not just the re-reporting and reading of twitter that passes for journalism these days. Its not on any of the PA media feeds that I can find?

there has always been a level of there is something going on behind the scenes that we don't know why is it any different other than a snapshot has come out and it has potential positives for a change.
I am more interested in the timing - this could have been fascinating prior to the forum as a leak, so not convinced it is purely to undermine AC. I am more inclined to believe the rumours of input all along but now need to formalise things before fan base goes entirely.
Could this be the Dr playing the media to ensure interest does not wane entirely before he performs some takeover ?

could this be a hey season tickets are on sale - ( look we dont need these big money men but all of a sudden there is interest) if there are rumours of four offers that suggest potential - i presume one would be lamb not offering much but putting in an offer as has been mooted. the Dr becoming involved..? suddenly 3000 tickets seems a little less pie in the sky with fans considering optimism could be on the horizon.

Happens every year without fail within a day or two of us launching season tickets ( or in this case just announcing that we're going to launch them next month.) Seems fairly obvious that it would be lowes share of club that could be potentially for sale, which would be understandable given his ill health and inability to even travel to the uk. But of course the spin is that its chalmers wanting out.

Wouldnt be too surprised if it was pre-planned as a way of Koukash getting control of two clubs via the back door and RFL have blocked it hence the story being leaked to press ( with a bit of spin that koukash turned us down). Would also explain why club have rebuffed other potential investors if they already have a preferred investor linedup.

Unlikely, as we're not in court.

love a bit of doom mongering them Halifax lot..lol

Greg's normally a bit more rational but recently has been a bit downbeat and is so quick to drop a negative comment in. Like the whole Hybrid part time full time thing doesn't work it cant be done - then someone suggest we could be first to try it and now Halifax do it?

all this negativity and trawling our boards so quick for news are you Nigel wood?

Of course AC isn't the chairman, though I confess to being slightly puzzled as to why not.

Not the original press report, link to another www.seriousaboutrl.com/koukash-r ... 750k-9311/

Not the original press report, link to another www.seriousaboutrl.com/koukash-r ... 750k-9311/

and Trump thought he'd coined the fake news term....us and our "friends" have been practising it at Odsal for years!

Quote ="Nelson"Not the original press report, link to another www.seriousaboutrl.com/koukash-r ... 750k-9311/'" yep, that's my point, its only the re-reporting on sites like that and the T&A which then get quoted on twitter, which then gets re-reported again. But the original source is nowhere, and the RFL website reported it, posted it and then took it down.

Quote ="Nelson"Not the original press report, link to another www.seriousaboutrl.com/koukash-r ... 750k-9311/'" yep, that's my point, its only the re-reporting on sites like that and the T&A which then get quoted on twitter, which then gets re-reported again. But the original source is nowhere, and the RFL website reported it, posted it and then took it down.

Quote ="Nelson"Not the original press report, link to another www.seriousaboutrl.com/koukash-r ... 750k-9311/'" Notice the headline states half of the club and the text half of AC's stake, so half of a half is a quarter. Know it's not the same people who write them but hardly sounds solid. Still, never a dull day at Odsal.

Quote ="Nelson"Not the original press report, link to another www.seriousaboutrl.com/koukash-r ... 750k-9311/'" Notice the headline states half of the club and the text half of AC's stake, so half of a half is a quarter. Know it's not the same people who write them but hardly sounds solid. Still, never a dull day at Odsal.