So what is the motivation to do the job for Chalmers and Lowe?



No money to be made.



A high likelihood of failure.



Tons of work needed.



I'm stumped as to why they're bothering? What's the motivation?

They get the opportunity to lose their houses?

They need to divest themselves of some assets?

Lowe wants to test to see how good his cardiac bypass actually is?

Exactly!



WTF?

The land deal at Odsal.

And what deal might that be?

The land at Odsal seems a long way to come for something the RFL don't look to want to give up too easily.

Agree so there is probably more in the detail (I.E. finances then we are privy to)

Unless they wanted to give it up to someone they already knew so they knew they could work with them. I wonder which of the bidders fulfilled that criteria?

KCNBABT, thought they had no money?

Maybe if I held the lease and wanted to make some money out of it and ensure that RL was still played in Bradford in some capacity I’d be wanting to do a deal with someone I thought I could trust and control.



So imagine I get an old pal to keep the club ticking over for a bit in the meantime while a deal is done thus unlocking some money for us all and possibly the RL team too in the end.



My pal may have no money but I could, with the help of the governing body, keep it on life support until the deal is done. Then hey presto my mate is taken care of and all is well.



Just a theory.

To be fair the only one that makes sense.

I was sort of thinking along the same lines as you. But what could this 'deal' possibly be?

The RFL aren't evil by nature they're just incompetent, so I don't think they're out to exploit us or anything like that.



Does anyone remember that curious article from a few months before we went into admin, where some RFL bigwig (I forget who, maybe Rimmer?) was dropping some hints about their plans for Odsal and 'exciting times ahead'. You know, the usual buzzwords.

But maybe there was something in it. Green supposedly tried for years to get the lease back off the RFL with no success. Bidders this time around wanted it but the RFL wouldn't even begin such discussions (see the recent Thorne article).

Now we suddenly have two of Nigel's cronies take over, while others (Lamb) are never given an explanation why. Chalmers and Lowe don't appear to be interested in the lease, could this be why they got the nod over other bids?