I suspect all this means is IL is still holding shares but making no contribution to financing the club. DH was expecting IL to find someone to fill his role when he jumped ship to Wigan so that it would not all fall on his shoulders yet again.

I thought that IL wa going to continue to pump cash into the club for 3 years after he bought Wigan....at which stage he was required to either offload his shares or at the very least take his "passive" role...ie, no more investment. This, if correct, would mean that 2009 was the first year that QRL received no money from IL and therefore, DH would have been our sole benefactor..
Either way, QRL is not a viable investment at present. If PB/DH and the team can add 1,500 to the gates this year and Mac can get us a play-off or CC semi or better, that may change, but as it is, it would take a massive leap of faith for anyone to invest the £10,000,000 I believe it would take to turn the BUSINESS around over 5 years.

Yes this is confirmed in the article, David Hughes says "Ian was supposed to have made all reasonable endeavours after taking over at Wigan to shed his shares within two years..." He goes on to say " I am funding the club 100% now, technically speaking Ian still owns 65% of the club but he isn't allowed to manage it or be involved day to day so it is an anomaly"

Doesn't sound like IL has tried very hard, but to be fair to him there probably aren't that many people interested. He should have had a stand at the HAC last friday.

I think when we own our own ground we shouldn't just name a stand after him, I think we should name it the David Hughes Stadium, or go fo the Wigan-esque DH Stadium

Or we sell LMS for 300k