Harsh.

If memory serves, GH was the prime mover in getting the RFL to be run a non-club-partisan.

Or have we forgotten the heady days of Maurice Lindsay?

Warrington Wolves have today, announced a major 4 year sponsorship with Emirates Airlines whilst the RFL has had no main sponsor for 2 years. The World Cup has no main sponsor either. Mmmm,

Well done Wire

As long as he retain his influence through the back door - hence Wood. You only have to look at how Gary got Tony Smith out of the Leeds job and into the England job to see his power base at the RFL.



Wood is his man, he is in charge because of Gary and GH seems able to easily brush aside the ineptitude at the RFL - why is that?

During that time the club lost huge amounts of money - were is the RU team now? The fact they were yoyo club without any sustainable growth in quality on the field or crowds must in part be down to the person who runs the club.



Without Caddick's money the club would have been bust, the Carnege was paid for by Leeds Met, Caddick's money paid for the training facility at Kirkstall etc. Who do you think paid for Harris? Once the club had got on roll it became self financing but it is easier to borrow money for major projects if you have some collateral.

How did GH get Wood his job? Not saying you're wrong, just that I don't remember the circumstances surrounding his appointment.

When Lewis went Wood was put in temporary charge until a successor could be found - that process never happened!!

How does that prove GH got Wood the job?

The way your talking and others implys GH runs the RFL now which in the cold light of day is total bollox!

Hang on, so Hetherington not only managed to convince the RFL Board to appoint Wood, he also managed to convince the RFL Council to vote through his appointment, and managed to convince Richard Lewis it was a good idea?

Wrong. Very, very wrong.

Without Caddicks money the club would have been bust. But its not because of Caddick throwing money at the Rhinos that we are where we are. The clubs was only reliant on Caddicks money in the early stages because of the ineptitude of the previous owners.



The RU club were a yo-yo club because of the obvious difficulties which arise from P+R. Every time Carnegie built some kind of platform their instable position broke it up.

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I don't see how using the Ru club can be used as a negative against GH. He took a small club, and got them to win major silverware.



the business was not profitable at the level they were competing at. The club are now at a suitable level. The club not being profitable is not the fault of GH, simply a case of wrong market. You could have a really good sausage roll recipe, but if you open a shop in Tel Aviv you will struggle

I think you're just wrong here.



When you say "the club" lost huge amounts of money, do you mean Leeds CF&A Ltd or the Union club?



Caddick may well have guaranteed the debts he inherited but he's never put a penny into the league club (He stopped funding the union club after a while as well). He and GH have made the company sustainable and profitable in it's own right.



You use the RU club as a negative example. We would not have the Kirkstall facilities without the RU club which were not paid for by Caddick but were an asset of that self same Union club we accquired (not a bad deal eh?) and the refurb funded by Sport ENgland thanks to being a Union Club as well as a league club.