Trinity1315 wrote:
We seem to have been stuffed! I think that's the message reading between the lines.
That said, MC and Co. at the club must have believed purchasing the ground as the best option and must surely have thoughts as to how rebuilding can be financed.
MC has been the club's saviour for a number of years now and I trust his judgement.
No we've not been stuffed, well we have over all but not on this individual decision.
Taken by itself, it just had to happen.
In pure RL terms we needed to own the ground or eventually we would become some broken nomad club like Oldham. A crap ground is still better than no ground.
In a business sense paying rent on a dump was a no brainer, it was a total waste of money. At least paying money over 15 years in the knowledge that you will eventually own it and thus have an asset makes total sense to me.
To quote Churchill "This is not the end; it is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
Nobody in their right mind can claim we have won a victory or that justice has been done, or not yet anyway.
Yet we simply had to do something or die. At least now we have a rallying point, a positive of sorts, something tangible that we can plan for, raise money for, care about, and dream about eventually feeling proud of.
We now all need to turn our energies into supporting the club in whatever they decide to do. Just look at Featherstone if you don't think its possible, the fans there made a huge difference and there are less of them than us.
Up the Trin.
