Where next? : Thu Aug 13, 2015 11:43 am  

So 3 years at Ealing, followed by ?

Answers on a post card.

Re: Where next? : Thu Aug 13, 2015 12:06 pm  

Nowhere. This is it. Ealing or extinction. Sadly as someone who started out at Prescot Panthers I'm only too aware that clubs do vanish

Re: Where next? : Thu Aug 13, 2015 12:44 pm  

Halfdan of t'wide embrace wrote:

Nowhere. This is it. Ealing or extinction. Sadly as someone who started out at Prescot Panthers I'm only too aware that clubs do vanish

Ah yes: Wigan Highfield, London Highfield, Liverpool Stanley, Liverpool City, Huyton, Runcorn Highfield, Highfield, Prescot Panthers, oblivion. (May have the later name sequences a bit awry.). Quite a track record.

However our current owner does have considerably more resources than the newsagent who ended up owning Prescot. Anybody know of a foolhardy newsagent in Ealing?

Everything in one place is an undoubted positive. How much resource will be applied?

In view of the history of the club, it's difficult to be anything but sceptical. But que sera sera.

Re: Where next? : Thu Aug 13, 2015 12:53 pm  

Not sure if Geoff owned a newsagents but he certainly held the pig farm near the old Saints ground.

Andrew Henderson stated in the Guardian the club were proposing a three year deal to David that saw him reduce his input year on year. Presumably the three year deal here means he has agreed. The suspicion must be the club needs to be at break even, or close, by end of season 2018 barring new investors.

Fingers crossed.

Re: Where next? : Thu Aug 13, 2015 1:19 pm  

Part time from 2017

Re: Where next? : Thu Aug 13, 2015 1:46 pm  

Weren't Prescot Panthers paid to go away?

Maybe that's the end game.

Re: Where next? : Thu Aug 13, 2015 2:08 pm  

That has certainly been reported. The story goes that the RFL wanted fewer clubs to divvy the Sky money amongst and couldn't see much value in Prescot playing just a bus ride from Knowsley Road.

Re: Where next? : Thu Aug 13, 2015 2:24 pm  

Well Broncos will be only a bus, several tubes & a yomp from our nearest rivals at New River.

David Hughes masterplan is finally becoming clear

Re: Where next? : Thu Aug 13, 2015 5:00 pm  

Halfdan of t'wide embrace wrote:

That has certainly been reported. The story goes that the RFL wanted fewer clubs to divvy the Sky money amongst and couldn't see much value in Prescot playing just a bus ride from Knowsley Road.

Around the time of the farcical mergers between Hull / Gateshead and Huddersfield / Sheffield for financial gain to the first named, Widnes proposed a merger with Prescott (a bit tongue in cheek I think) but the R.F.L turned it down though the appx. 3/4 mile separation was far less than the many miles separating the two they approved.

Re: Where next? : Thu Aug 13, 2015 5:54 pm  

daftdad wrote:

Part time from 2017

And still a score to get to watch them I bet.