I always had you down as more of K.O.W.I.G.H. sort of a bloke...

Here is a genuine idea - start a Supporters Fund to raise £500k . However don't hand it over like Bulls fans did BUT wait until a new owner/takeover comes along and pitch in a 49% owners ala Barcelona type set up (within reason).

My thoughts are that you may go into admin IF a buyer isn't found and if a Supporters Trust has £500k then you have a large bargaining chip when it comes to a new owner moving in etc

just a thought

i disagree. i think hudge has lost the faith that rovers have any cope for progerssion hence the reason for wanting out. they have hit their glass ceiling if you like. if major success was achievable, hudge would have it done so under his name. he is and, has been for sometime now. just looking for a dignified exit

I don't think hudge would have come out with this statement without there being some serious interest in the club, He would have surely done it in a different way if it was just a case of the club ctting it's cloth according to income in the future. 2 scenarios here I think. Either there are some interested parties (party) who are not committing for whatever reason and hudge is trying to push them along, or there is someone who may not be totally popular and hudge is just painting a doomsday scenario so anything seems better in the future.

Either way, rovers will definitely be in SL in the future and probably cashed up with a new owner.

Had to laugh at the comment in the wail from lowe about tovers being the best brand in rugby league though

There already talking to a consortium

Correct, 3 of them, one Leeds-based. Do keep up.

Your not allowed to say things like this Frankie

U dont give up do u mrs b tut tut

Could we be seeing an Allam Shake (did you see what I did there)

Ha ha yer good one that

You must be in a good mood this morning, conversing with "scum"

Understandable, we're a week off the announcement, n'est-ce pas? Timely Challenge Cup boost.

It's sum thing that's gotta be done mrs b but rather than stay on here all day which I'd love to do I'm of to work so Tarrra

'If somebody has the cash and the desire', is the important qualifier. Saints have been one of SL's big 4 since its inception, despite representing a town of about 100k people and for most of that time playing out of a somewhat dilapidated stadium, where they were losing about a million pounds a year. Eamonn McManus was willing to underwrite big losses to get success. Unless you're Leeds or Wigan that is probably the only way to do it.

On backchat they were making the point that [iwe[/i can't keep on making these losses [ias a club[/i - but that is what the sport as a whole does. We can't 'wipe our face' in isolation, but the weakness of so many clubs plays into your hands in you become strong (ie have cash pumped in).



I wish I shared your confidence. The internet is great for conspiracy theories, but I think this is probably exactly what NH says it is. We'll see.

The opportunity for a timely Challenge Cup boost came and went with the draw. If only we could have got a Championship 1 club at home, that would have been the ultimate boost.

that was for the benefit of the Rovers fans (as its a Rovers forum ) not some =#BF0000edit-MR.

Let's try to be nice please, keeping the trolling light in both volume and tone and the insults tame. Cheers.

I might be, if I knew what that one was

Keep On Winking I Got Herpes?

Oh, not one for me then. Many other exotic diseases, but never Herpes

Sould be a announcement after the weekend, talks have being on Going for a few weeks now, or so I have been told by an insider of the club, the whole story has been blown out of proportion with hear say and panic, craven park will not be hosting the likes of York Leigh or barrow unless we draw them in the challenge cup, hudgell and crossland just don't have the cash too keep them going so a new investor will be brought in who has a lot of cash! So stop bloody panickin and cut out the ridiculous talk of championship rugby it is pathetic why would hudgell condem rovers too lower league rugby when it looked like we would never play in the top flight ever 10 years ago.

Well hello that is great to hear welcome

He wouldnt voluntary but if he cant sustain his input its a possibility.

The person with loads of cash will need also to have the business sense to carry on the drive to self financing, otherwise he will eventually do the same as Hudge & co.

've just text my mate and told him what this says said so u best not be lying!!!

I would have thought that any new investor with plenty of cash must have some sense and knowledge of self financing otherwise they would'nt have aquired their fortune in the first place.
It will certainly be interesting to see just who it might be as there were rumours plus one or two names been banded about last week in the HP bar, interesting times for sure.