Garry Brindley Esq. wrote:
1) The Reardon debacle
Only a 'debacle' on here. Minor news everywhere else. And I doubt the decision to sign him was Rule's.A 'purely subjective statement' on your part there, surely?2) The Challenge Cup registration debacle
Fair enough - and he admitted to the erroe.3) Taking spin to excessive and unnecessary levels.
A purely subjective statement, generally made by people who don't understand marketing. 
I understand well enough that it was detrimental to a lot of fans' view of how the club treats them.4) Lying to the fans about the club owing no money to anyone
Economical with the truth at the very least.5) Missing a match to go on a boozy weekend in Dublin when the club is in crisis
This really is a nonsense, as was pointed out at the time.Did he really not miss a match to go to Dublin? I genuinely thought he did.6) The Crocker debacle
Crocker was denied a visa due to a change in the rules and a new administrator in Australia. How exactly was this Rule's fault?It was his job to be on top of issues like that and plan ahead.1) It's not a subjective statement because I'm not stating anything. I'm expressing a doubt. Do you really think that Rule made the decisions on who we signed?
3) There was a lot of moaning on here. Elsewhere we had record merchandise and season ticket sales despite the rubbish being served up on the pitch. This suggests that the vast majority of fans weren't bothered by the 'spin' in the slightest.
5) I think someone else can clarify (forgotten who), but I'm pretty sure that the 'boozy weekend' was nothing of the sort and his absence for that game had been planned long in advance.
6) So it was Rule's job to predict changes in Government policy and personnel assignments in the overseas immigration offices was it? Really? Changes that caught the whole of RL on both sides of the world by surprise?
