Great gesture by the lad but I would encourage him to keep hold of the money until you know how to use it. Administration seems a certainty, its what happens after that you should be preparing for.

I hate to see any club struggling being a Widnes Viking supporter my entire life I have been through the mill a few times already.
My issue is with the way RFL bigwigs are always so cloak & dagger apart from on very rare occasions e.g Bradford.
If they were more transparent in things like this situation whereby somebody has stated that they are helping in a viable way then maybe more fans from all clubs would be happy to support the game more. As it stands people just see RFL bigwigs sat in boardrooms doing nothing to help smaller clubs and just helping the big guns all the time.
Be more open and more fans will think more if them and that could in time mean more fans coming to games and speaking about the game in a positive way which could only lead to good things in my opinion.

If the RFL made some sort of 'blanket statement' to the effect that they will provide emergency financial assistance to any club then that would merely encourage more profligate spending. In the Bradford case they bought the club's ground, something they can't do for Salford as they don't own it. I'd also be interested to hear of the 'help' that the RFL provide to the [i'big guns all the time.'[/i

That's simply not true.

The Bulls situation was very serious for a long time, before the SL clubs put in the offer of buying them as an interim measure, a move which forced the sale through.

Indeed it was, I knew about it three years previous.
It's a shame they didn't mention it in their SL licence application.