Quote ="Kosh"Hardly, since my original point was that the 1.25 million figure was the combined debt of both clubs prior to the merger and not some kind of inducement paid to only one half. And the article backs that up. The Gateshead BOD bought out Lloyd, merged the clubs, and received the cash to pay off the [icombined[/i creditors.
Anyway - I'm off to bed now. Feel free to have the last word.'"
Last word or not, the £1.25million was a figure offered by the RFL & SL to any 2 clubs agreeing to merge, Huddersfield received exactly the same amount when absorbing Sheffield.
If it then went to pay creditors that's irrelevant, the point is the offer from the RFL was there and Hull took it, they did so as a method of bailing themselves out.
Now either the pre merged Hull is also the new Hull in which case you're statement is wrong or the pre merged Hull came to an end in which case the current Hull FC has no claim to the history of the old club, which is it?
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