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NRL set to lock in $57m lifeline … despite key holdouts "...Australian Rugby League Commission chairman Peter V’landys will conduct a phone hook-up with his English Rugby League Commercial counterparts on Thursday night to ratify the deal." "Sources have told the Telegraph that at least 10 of the league’s 14 clubs are now in favour."

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Hetherington became majority owner by 6th May 2025 so well within the year under review. And there's no way he would ever take on £20m of debt at London. So there will no doubt be belt and braces legal documents in place to cover off responsibility (or lack of) relating to that liability. It is puzzling that it still shows though, I'd love to know the details of that arrangement. If Hetherington/Lockyer can work some magic on Hughes personally and coax him back into taking an interest that would be a very good result.

What on earth are you talking about? The rankings are backward-looking.

Based on their just filed accounts, it appears London lost £980k in the 2025 season.

What's wrong with the toilets?

A go-getter you say.

You keep asking this and are pretending to be stunned and appalled. Given the clubs, the RFL and Sky have all agreed to the new deal the number of people who know about the details is in the hundreds. That sort of thing known by that many people is always going to get out to interested parties.

Why don't you read the grading doc you've been shared multiple times? I'm not here to work for you.

My only "agenda" is that we deal with facts rather than just made up rubbish.

I'm not here to answer questions anyone with little more than basic intelligence woul be able to answer themselves.

We've linked to the gradings handbook for your benefit before. If you read it you wouldn't still be asking these silly questions.

So you're saying you don't like the grading system. But for some reason with you and some other posters it's only about Bradford. You would have more credibility if you'd been calling the system out for years rather than only after it benefited a club you apparently despise.

Because the poster hates Bradford and that overrides everything else, apparently.

Right. Well that's a great argument. Unfortunately your evidence-free vibes don't count for much in the gradings.