martinwildbull wrote:
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No I dont believe everything i read in the papers, however there is no reference to defined shares anywhere this reference to one years funding is the only precise statement.
The agreement is specifically to receive 50% of the distributions received by other clubs. Simple as.
martinwildbull wrote:
I suppose the real test as to whether there has been a breach of tbe agreement is to advise the club, I am sure that £40k would be pretty useful right now.
I tried to, without success. I don't think it is relevant any more because:
1. the company which is a party to the agreement was of course OKB and it is in administration, so if it was shortchanged by the RFL/other clubs, that is something for the administrator not OKB. And I doubt he's interested but from my POV there is nowt in it any more for us. We have no separate surviving claim outside the administrator's authority. We got stuffed, end of story.
2. Last year's half money came and it went. I don't know whereabouts we are this year but there are no grounds whatsoever to only pay the new owners (whoever that may be) half money, under the old agreement, as they aren't a party to it. Any such agreement would have to be part of the raft of documentation that the new owners would/will have to enter into. To be clear: the new owners WILL HAVE TO SIGN UP TO A
NEW HALF PAY DEAL if that's what the RFL want/clubs insist on. As obviously neither the RFL, the club or other parties can possibly be bound by any agreement entered into by the old OKB.
In my opinion, that may be a deal-breaker because whoever is the new owner, I can't see anybody whatsoever, especially with the benefit of hindsight, agreeing to compete in any of the leagues on half money, all the more so now they have seen how the Bulls got on, on half money. Would you? If it was me, I would start off by telling them to stick that.
Those with a keen eye for dates will also possibly have noticed that the agreement for half money was entered into before the RFL confirmed that the Bulls would be allowed to play in SL. The agreement is for half the distribution that other clubs receive. Not other
SL clubs. Other clubs. We would have been on half distribution whether in the SL or in the Championship.