paulwalker71 wrote:Well, does anyone remember back in the glory days when threads like this would instantly have 20+ pages?

Back then, there were a fair few regular posters who reckoned that the whole thing about the RFL buying the lease was all a long-term plot for Nigel Wood to eventually get hold of the Odsal lease at a knockdown price.

Perhaps we are now entering the end game **places fingers together conspiratorially**

Maybe now we'll get the reasons for the lease sale, the constant insertion of useless owners who then went bust, and all that crap from the last decade...

redeverready wrote:Techinaclly they paid nothing for the lease, all the day did was essentially snatch the lease when Robin Hood and his band of merry jokers couldn't pay back the secret loan the RFL had slipped us without mentioning it to the other clubs. All the talk of protecting rugby at Odsal was and still is utter drivel driven by money.

Scarey71 wrote:Hirst says IMG put 'significant obligations on stadium owners' so looks like they'd have to bring it up to scratch at some point.

Another RFL own goal?

Highlander wrote:One thing we’ve learnt from the sale package, the stockcars have a lease until 2041

Ckt2487 wrote:I don't trust the RFL to protect the Bulls in any sale.

Scarey71 wrote:Hirst says IMG put 'significant obligations on stadium owners' so looks like they'd have to bring it up to scratch at some point.

Another RFL own goal?