Good luck to all concerned, another sad day for RL. Hopefully this is just a financial issue and the club will be back on firm ground soon

are you from leigh?



Really depressing to hear about Donny in trouble again, but you have to wonder when lessons will be learned.

What's the next step for the club?

Sorry but does this in some way make it better ?



Of course it's a financial issue



All sports are struggling



All RL clubs barring 3/4 are struggling



All lower tier clubs bar probably 1 are struggling



Sooner rather than later a club will go and not come back



Can it be avoided ?



probably



Will it ?



Probably not

Going into administration can be a great way of clearing your debts. Ken Bates bought Leeds for a nomimal sum plus their debts which were in the tens of millions, he took them into administration almost straight away and all debts were wiped out, he then bought the club off the administrators for £1 so had the club he wanted with very little debt. A nice bit of business.

How?

The only way it's ever avoided if there is someone with enough cash (or says they have enough cash) to come in and bankroll them. If there's not enough interest in a club to attract anyone like this, then they will go to the wall, but what can you do to stop that?



Same as any other business....

Not a good sign for the club, however its not the first time, hopefully it can carry on. Interesting as Bauer was working in the club also as Media Officer so not just players having to leave then.

Probably doesn't help throwing cash at Ellery Hanley et al with some dream of SL before you even have a fanbase.



It's sad sad news, but I can't help but think there have been a procession of delusional muppets at the helm of the club over recent times.



All the best to the club and it's fans, hope you come out the other end in a better state.

Yeh, we shud kik out all dem forriners an only play the traditynul teems liek dem wots jus down road!!!!!!

Well done! Yep, all working class northerners are illiterate racists, no really!

Quick, merge them with Sheffield! We could uproot the successful Sheffield team and move them to the better venue in Donny, I'm sure Sheffield won't mind as it's not been tried before ...

I have no time for Mr Bates but this is not quite true.



He bought a 50% stake in Leeds for £10Million in Jan 2005 when their debts were estimated to be approaching £50 (they had sold their ground and training ground to reduce debts from the £100M mark!)



In 2007 he put Leeds into admin with debts of £35M. After a lengthy battle with HMRC (which Donny will also face unless they pay their debts in full) he bought Leeds back at a rate of about 7.5p in the £. Quite a bit more than £1.



As with all clubs in admin it is the small suppliers and that suffer, they can't afford to take a perentage of the money that they are owed. Hopefully it can be sorted out.



As a fan of a football team that almost ceased to exist (Leeds were that close) and as a fan of Gateshead Thunder (a team that did cease to exist but for different reasons) I hope for the sake of all Donny fans they can sort out their issues and that they still have a rugby team to watch.

Really? All of the ones I've met are quite nice.....even the anti-axpansionist ones, but I bow to your superior local knowledge

yep. and all londoners are warm, open, chatty folk who regard life past watford in the highest esteem. it's true! me dad red it ter mi from t'paper like

Great gesture by Sheffield





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For all the moaning on here at times its things like this that remind us that we have the greatest game.



Well done sheffield.

Hear,hear!



Well done, Sheffield

I thought a shiny stadium was the answer to all RL's problems?

I was just thinking that myself. Everyone seem to think that if

you get a new stadium your crowds will go up and SL will be

beconing, not worked for Donny, they had bigger crowds at

Belle Vue. The Keepmoat as been the worst thing that could

have happened.

Superb gesture by Sheffield.



Could you imagine 2 SL clubs doing that! I certainly couldn't see Hull & Rovers doing it

it would seem not to be the case.





Hats off the Sheffield all the same.

I think they'll just have to learn that they're a third tier club naturally and that they can't afford to play second tier, as every time they do they get in financial trouble. They never had these problems when they were near the bottom of the league. Once they get relegated this year (which the points deduction will ensure) then they should cut their wages a lot to what they can afford and focus on consolidating for a few years

Fantastic bit of tactical marketing by the Eagles, 50% of incremental gate receipts is better than 100% of bugger all.

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