This deal should be a piece of cake for Parkin.

Taxi...sorry chauffeur-driven limo, for TT

Correct. It'd be the same difference as between 'buying' and 'giving'.

Can't see much of a problem with Mr Parkin if you compare him to our largest shareholder who sems to spend most of his time selling our best youngsters to Australia

I've been waiting to use that one for ages.

NEXT!

Compare you to us last year. Why would Parkin want to invest now? It will cost him a million quid and he will be stuck with the existing management structure. Do you think Glover at our place would have handed over half a million just so Ted Richardson could stay in charge? No, if he is going to invest, he will let you go into administration, get you for next to nothing, sweep away all the old debts, and put his own people in charge, like Glover did. And we are all the better for it.



My own suspicion is that Parkin is keeping an eye on Wakey in case our stadium gets the go ahead (we will know within two months), as then he can have his football team playing out of a brand new stadium.

Couldn't agree more, any serious investor/business person will just do a deal with the Administrator!



The quest is simply delaying the inevitable, Hood himself says SL clubs are basically not solvent and without long term investment we'll be here again in a year





If you analyse our recent trading history we've needed a player sale or loan every year for the last 5 or 6, so I don't know who Hood thinks he's been kidding and my continued criticism of this regime over the years looks justified!



Hood says investors aren't queuing up, no poo Sherlock, you've just advertised a fire sale and you're on the bonfire! The blokes a clown, really! Theyll be queuing up a plenty when KPMG are called in

Sounds like Caisley talking.

Has Parkin got the business nous to take on the Bulls with a new administration I doubt, he might be successful with smaller Clubs , but I feel he would struggle. Bradford has become/percieved to be a 3rd Worls sink hole hence investment in the area is not happening to a large extent. The present administration have done extremely well during the post Caisley years in paying off the inherited debt and fall out re SC, as Peter Hood has admitted, Ryan too, they have made mistakes and would do some things differently. With no rich benefactor to mop up the annual losses I think the Club have done more than well to keep going to this point, when circumstances caused this problem now being faced. Administration would be a death knell for this Club and no guarantee the franchise would stay at Odsal (the RFL having tenure on the lease wouldn't prevent a move away) The Club has said if they can get through this short term hiatus the future looks good, (and they won't be needing another hand out down the road like some believe)

Just keep pledging and encourage others to do so, time is not on anyones side for answers this side of Good Friday.

It might or it might not, if you had ever made any

There does seem to be a general perception that Administration means we lose all our best players and our SL license, whereas avoiding Administration means we keep our best players and stay in SL.



I just do not think its that clear cut. My fear is that we scrape over the Pledge target but no new major investor comes in. We then limp along, effectively suffering most of the pain that would come with Administration but without taking the opportunity to clear the debts and start afresh. And once the fans money is gone its gone for ever, along with their goodwill.

That's my worry too

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