Re: David Hughes hobby : Wed Oct 17, 2018 2:17 am  

northernbloke wrote:

Nice to see we are all being very positive, well done RF without mr Hughes Broncos would not be here never mind back in SL, some folk seem to find that hard to believe.

Antagonistic little fella aren't you.
We got mullered by Wigan in the 2013 CC Semi-final and Saint David if Swinton and his handpicked CEO decided to play chicken with the RFL in the off season.......if he'd have followed through with his threat to leave we'd have likely been "co-owned" by the other 13 SL sides in 2014 to ensure the fixtures were met....but he buckled (some negotiator) and instead we were relegated......14k state of the art stadium with a 5K average and you're happy with a wedding venue (still no application lodged with Ealing Council) and 800 fans.....yeah...Thanks Dave

Re: David Hughes hobby : Wed Oct 17, 2018 3:20 pm  

Nothing antagonistic at all. Stating a fact, without mr Hughes we would not be in SL next year, last year without Mr Hughes we would not have been playing in a wedding venue in front of 800 fans.
Without Mr Hughes we would be a name in the history books playing nowhere with no fans.

Re: David Hughes hobby : Wed Oct 17, 2018 3:34 pm  

I think CMG might be getting at, that without Hughes we may well have already been in SL, at a quality stadium, playing in front of a few thousand.

Re: David Hughes hobby : Wed Oct 17, 2018 4:47 pm  

northernbloke wrote:

Nothing antagonistic at all. Stating a fact, without mr Hughes we would not be in SL next year, last year without Mr Hughes we would not have been playing in a wedding venue in front of 800 fans.
Without Mr Hughes we would be a name in the history books playing nowhere with no fans.

Those are your opinions not facts.

Re: David Hughes hobby : Wed Oct 17, 2018 6:24 pm  

If David Hughes had not chosen the only first season in years that we could get relegated in, to throw his toys out of the pram. Then with decent recruitment we would not have been relegated in the first place.

Re: David Hughes hobby : Wed Oct 17, 2018 7:30 pm  

Bostwick wrote:

If David Hughes had not chosen the only first season in years that we could get relegated in, to throw his toys out of the pram. Then with decent recruitment we would not have been relegated in the first place.

My point exactly.......I regard Mr Hughes as a patron of the club and do not doubt that our existence so much as it is, is down to his "largesse" but he is as much the cause of the problem as he is a half solution......
If he spends £1,250,000 a year on us.....give me half of that and inside 5 years, I'll reduce his "required" income by 50%.......inside 15 years we'd be self sustaining.....he doesn't want the club to be self sustaining though....IMHO!