What has Bernard Guasch done that Carter hasn't in recent years? I appreciate Catalans had a successful Challenge Cup campaign this year but other than that the last few league performances have been fairly poor. (10th and 8th)

Also -
Founded an expansion club from literally nothing which became stable, successful and profitable.
Has funded through the profitable running of the business the redevelopment of Headingley stadium - a project costing Leeds £30m+, absolutely unique in Rugby League in the club paying for it with no subsidising sources of funding.
In the meantime he was also a pretty fine head coach in his day and was the assistant coach to Ellery back in the '94 Ashes test series.

I've been to a number of RL literature events over the last few years. Hetherington is the only SL boss (who I recognise) that I have seen at any of them. At least 3. To say he is not a fan does him a disservice.

Certainly not with sponsorship he hasn't. Wigan's last accounts recorded a £600k drop in sponsorship income.

How very astute.

No and that’ll be why he’s leading the way to wanting to take money from the Championship clubs because he’s unable to stop the losses and make a profit himself so needs more handed to him.

If he doesn’t make significant changes (chiefly a stadium) and get them making a profit then in 5-10 years Leeds will be miles ahead of Wigan when the financial benefits of the stadium work and the substantial corporate facilities they’ve built come rolling in. Leeds’ short term pain will be well worth it when then long term gain kicks in in the next few years.

Good example is Juventus who became the first Italian football team to build and own their own stadium with all the new corporate facilities. Skip ahead 10 years and they’re constantly winning the league and buying Cristiano Ronaldo in a huge financial deal whilst the other big names like AC and Inter, Roma, Lazio etc. are trailing well behind and lack any real star signings.

I said IL was too much of a fan, not that Hetherington wasn't a fan.....IL would quite happily still be bankrolling London as well as Wigan if he'd been allowed and neither would be profitable......but he's too much of a fan and unable to step back IMHO......like Beaumont but not as gobby