Re: Takeover : Wed Dec 11, 2024 11:38 pm  

Thank goodness Adam kept us afloat, particularly in recent times.

Near the end his lack of deep pockets certainly affected his ability to run the Club.

We still haven’t won the GF so I say the new owners should sell up and move on!

We want silverware now !

Re: Takeover : Thu Dec 12, 2024 12:18 pm  

Hopefully there’ll be a bit of positivity around the place now.
I sincerely thank AP for 2016, and steering the club through Covid, but there’s been a lot of negativity coming out of the club over the last three or so years.

Combined with abysmal performances, it’s been difficult to be enthusiastic about the club.

Hopefully the new ownership, under RM, can reenergise us all.

Re: Takeover : Thu Dec 12, 2024 4:23 pm  

I'm.sure Moanaire will pop along soon and burst the bubble of positivity around here

Re: Takeover : Thu Dec 12, 2024 9:19 pm  

Dan Tomlinson summed it up when he said Pearson had left in us in the same state as when he took over. I'm not one to join the love in about him, Kath and Co got us to two cc finals (one win) and one grand final and gave us the best team we've had in the kc stadium era, Pearson got us to two finals with two wins. Imo the Kath era was better. But that's the past - now we look to the future

Re: Takeover : Fri Dec 13, 2024 5:12 am  

Sebasteeno wrote:

Dan Tomlinson summed it up when he said Pearson had left in us in the same state as when he took over. I'm not one to join the love in about him, Kath and Co got us to two cc finals (one win) and one grand final and gave us the best team we've had in the kc stadium era, Pearson got us to two finals with two wins. Imo the Kath era was better. But that's the past - now we look to the future

It’s a RESULTS business !!!

Re: Takeover : Fri Dec 13, 2024 6:19 am  

Sebasteeno wrote:

Dan Tomlinson summed it up when he said Pearson had left in us in the same state as when he took over. I'm not one to join the love in about him, Kath and Co got us to two cc finals (one win) and one grand final and gave us the best team we've had in the kc stadium era, Pearson got us to two finals with two wins. Imo the Kath era was better. But that's the past - now we look to the future

There’s a big difference between a ‘love in’ and bit of realism about the situation we found ourselves in. IMO the rot set in a couple of years before, but Covid was the final nail in the coffin and meant that there was absolutely no way the club could continue to compete in SL without outside money coming in. It was that simple.

Everyone knew that, thankfully pretty much all supporters were sensible enough to realise this and not make too much of a hostile environment and the club seemingly navigated it to now be on more of a level playing field with the new owners. It could have gone the way of Salford easily and people are rightfully giving AP at least a bit of credit for that.

Re: Takeover : Fri Dec 13, 2024 8:30 am  

DSJ1983 wrote:

There’s a big difference between a ‘love in’ and bit of realism about the situation we found ourselves in. IMO the rot set in a couple of years before, but Covid was the final nail in the coffin and meant that there was absolutely no way the club could continue to compete in SL without outside money coming in. It was that simple.

Everyone knew that, thankfully pretty much all supporters were sensible enough to realise this and not make too much of a hostile environment and the club seemingly navigated it to now be on more of a level playing field with the new owners. It could have gone the way of Salford easily and people are rightfully giving AP at least a bit of credit for that.

I was talking to Adam last night he said amongst a lot of other things that "the last two years just about broke him" and he wasn't talking just cash either. When in the future if the the truth comes out people will realise just what our owner went through post pandemic and over the last two years and how easy it would have been to walk and leave us in a real hole but he kept to his word and now leaves us potentially in the best state we have been in financially in our history as a Club. he had his critics me included at times and he made some poor decisions, and oversaw an unthinkable decline but I think he at least deserves some thanks for ensuring everyone at the club was paid during covid and for keeping us afloat and being hell bent on finding the right buyers and leaving us as rich as any club in the game. Just my thoughts of course! And obviously not everyone's on here, but that's what this board is about isn't it?

Re: Takeover : Fri Dec 13, 2024 8:42 am  

It's obviously Pearson ran out of money and covid really hit the club hard. Wish he would have just been honest and sai this. Some terrible coached followed with terrible recruitment, Reynolds, Gale, Evans. The diaster of 2024 recruitment. Buy he kept us afloat a d it looks like he has found up some new owners who like rugby and are keen to make us challenge again.