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BarryZola said:
Short term pain for long term gain, hopefully.
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Spot on mate, it's certainly better than a winding up order. Yes we've got a 12-point deduction, but that's a small price to pay for a long overdue change of ownership. The club aren't hanging around either, they've already started removing the "Chansiri" from the North Stand.


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The other good thing is the separate company that owns the stadium has also been put into administration, allowing the club and stadium to be sold together as one.
 
Think it's terrible any club, big or small can fail. All because someone with alot of brass and no common sense can just take over a side. Then realise, it's not the money spinner they thought it would be.

Football clubs should be part of the community. Not a rich persons portfolio of businesses.

To add to this. I follow a Rugby League side called Featherstone Rovers. The club is at the very heart of an old Coal mining village. Which has won the the first division and the challenge cup, despite being from a village. Now it's being run into the ground, for what seems to be for the land it occupies and owns. The club is £1.6million in dept. But is sat on £6million of land, which was given to it by the coal mine after closure to keep as a community asset. We had a former players and owner of building company come in last year, after the previous owner allegedly chased and beat up someone with hammer, after, again allegedly, they came round looking for debt payments. He came up against a brick wall called the board. Has now left and the old owner has ridden in on white horse and told us about the mess.

Wakefield council condemned part of the ground last year. Old terraced stand which is beginning to crumble. Plus part of the newer stands. (Bought over from Scarborough's McCain stadium and built by former players .) Because the club hired the storage unit underneath the new stand to a welder. That was closed aswell. (I don't think Wakefield council have ever been to Wheldon Road In Cas.)

I know alot of you don't give a **** about RL. If you want to see a sport, so badly run. RL is your new destination. I will also give a run down of the IMG ratings. Where a club can relegated, not because they finished bottom, because the side at the bottom had electric sonship boards and you don't.
 
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