Featherstone Rovers hit with winding up petition

[josie andrews]

Featherstone Rovers have confirmed that Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) sent them a winding up petition on October 28 this year

http://www.loverugbyleague.com/news_166 ... tion.html?

[Owd Codger]

A reason why they need to merge with Castleford and Wakefield to form one good and stronger club for the City of Wakefield in which all three clubs are situated.

The more smaller clubs cling on to the past, the more our game will struggle to be a professional game.

The game now simply has to many so called 'professional' clubs along the M62 corridor and it is time that those running them faced up to reality.

Which club will be next?

[medlocke]

A reason why they need to merge with Castleford and Wakefield to form one good and stronger club for the City of Wakefield in which all three clubs are situated.

The more smaller clubs cling on to the past, the more our game will struggle to be a professional game.

The game now simply has to many so called 'professional' clubs along the M62 corridor and it is time that those running them faced up to reality.

Which club will be next?

Don't you mean Calder

[sc74]

From Wiki -

Initially, several mergers between existing clubs were proposed:

Castleford, Wakefield Trinity and Featherstone Rovers would form Calder
Hull and Hull Kingston Rovers would form Hull
Salford and Oldham were to form Manchester
Sheffield and Doncaster were to form South Yorkshire
Warrington and Widnes were to form Cheshire
Whitehaven, Workington Town, Barrow and Carlisle would form Cumbria
They were to be included with the following stand-alone clubs: Bradford Northern, Halifax, Leeds, London Broncos, Paris Saint-Germain, St. Helens and Wigan.

One the biggest problems that we face in this country, in my opinion, is that we are glued to the past. 92 top-flight soccerball clubs is another example.

[robbobillinge]

Meanwhile dozens of multinational companies get away with billions of pounds of tax avoidance.......broken Britain.

[Owd Codger]

From Wiki -

Initially, several mergers between existing clubs were proposed:

Castleford, Wakefield Trinity and Featherstone Rovers would form Calder
Hull and Hull Kingston Rovers would form Hull
Salford and Oldham were to form Manchester
Sheffield and Doncaster were to form South Yorkshire
Warrington and Widnes were to form Cheshire
Whitehaven, Workington Town, Barrow and Carlisle would form Cumbria
They were to be included with the following stand-alone clubs: Bradford Northern, Halifax, Leeds, London Broncos, Paris Saint-Germain, St. Helens and Wigan.



One the biggest problems that we face in this country, in my opinion, is that we are glued to the past. 92 top-flight soccerball clubs is another example.

Exactly, too many clubs for the number now watching team sports, but I was on about clubs in our game being in line with the new local authorities which came about in 1974, rather than area, regional or county clubs.

As far as I am concerned, if it had been done in 1974, our game would be stronger today and with a smaller number but bigger clubs.

The more our game clings on to the parochial past with too many clubs, the more it will struggle with financial problems, especially now that there is more money in Union and the NRL to attract the better players.

[Pedrotheexile]

Meanwhile dozens of multinational companies get away with billions of pounds of tax avoidance.......broken Britain.

Whats that got to do with a rugby club going bust because they can't pay their tax bill!Tax avoidance is legitimately organising your tax affairs to minimise your tax liability-its enrishined in case law as a fundamental right and any company that didn't do it could probably be sued by their shareholders.If you think the tax legislation is badly drafted or doesn't adequately represent stated policy then blame the government(past & present)for total incompetency.

[robbobillinge]

Chasing a Rugby League team for a few thousand pounds costs proportionately much more than chasing a cynical tax avoiding multinational. Its cheap publicity for the Customs & Revenue for buttons. Of course all companies should be efficient but Fev have, in my view, adequately justified their position-the money was to have been paid. There has been much publicity regarding this sort of glory hunting for little gain.