This might be the most pointless thread i've seen on here....

.... one memory which doesn't get mentioned anymore is the fact that the RFL were actively encouraging the merger of clubs in 1999, and £1m was on the table for the merger of 2 SL clubs.
And in 2000, SL had been reduced from 14 teams to 12.
Pure coincidence, I'm sure.

Memory serves me that the merged club would recieve 2 portions of Super League money, meaning 2 million quid as I stated earlier. Gateshead I believe were over a million in debt, FC just under a million. The Super League payments cleared all debts. It was a condition of the deal. Super League reduced to twelve because Sheffield and Gateshead went to the wall. People tend to forget about Hudds merger conveniently.

... it's how you want to interpret it, an additional £1m amounts to the same thing.

The point is/was that the money was being offered for clubs wanting to merge well before the end of the 1999 season.

£750k for the merger of a SL club and a championship club seems to ring a bell also.

Soz, thought you meant only one million to the merged club

That's why the original post made no sense. It basically said had we finished bottom, we'd not have merged... yet Huddersfield finished bottom and they merged?

Surely for it to be good trolling, it has to make sense? The troller just looks like a moron in this case. Anyone can just say something random.