I believe it is a matter of public record that Steve O'Connor set up a charitable fund/trust with the sum of £1.8M in 2008.

That money, in its entirety, was called upon by the Widnes Sport Ltd in the financial year 2008-2009. It was entered as income in your accounts and was used I imagine to service debts among other things (seating? etc), the surplus of this figure is I believe in the region of £1M and is recorded as profit in the accounts for the period in question. Your clubs accounts, like all businesses (e.g. S O'Connors) are a matter of public record and available to anyone.

To be honest I fail to see why Widnes fans are getting angry. Congratulations on having a professional and financially committed chairman. You now have a well run club with a healthy bank balance, in fact I would say its a bank balance that is the envy of British RL as no other club bar Batley (of all people) have posted a profit in years without selling their assets. To get upset by people (truthfully) stating that the profit you declared was due to income received from a trust set up by your chairman seems ridiculous and is no doubt providing great amusement to those who have an issue with your club.

Here Here Littlerich and I raise your fart to a follow through

I don't have a set of accounts to hand, but I have read them (back in september when filed) and i don't recall any mention of what you have discribed being mentioned in them. would you be so kind as to provide a link (other than companies house) to back up your claims as in my sad accountant way i'd be interested to read it.

However what has been pretty much revealed this week is that the Club appears to have taken over the opperation of the Stadium that it holds a lease for and all the turnover and expenditure that goes with it. Its not been said outright but it has certainly been implied.

I didn’t know the accounts had been published. Perhaps you’d be so kind as to post them for us here, and give us the benefit of your degree in accountancy in explaining to us how SOC putting money into a trust fund and then drawing on it, in order to put it onto the balance sheet, is any different to simply transferring money from his own account?

Surely, both would just show up as capital, rather than turnover or profit?


Perhaps he has/will do so in private. If he did it in public, idiots like you would be on here lambasting him for bullying poor little Batley.



I don’t know how they did it, and care even less. What I don’t like to see is a chairman of another club attacking our own chairman over an issue which has nothing to do with the Widnes Vikings.

This, as a fan of the club, has everything to do with me. The day it doesn’t, will be the day I have given up watching the game.

Every time anyone dares have a pop at your chairman, you go off like a bottle of pop – you hypocritical little creep!

And that would be typical of the man.Dignified,diplomatic and professional.Unlike some.