Post by Westcountry Mose on May 18, 2015 16:56:00 GMT
Apologies in advance if this is old news to some, but I gather LW have accepted a £6.5m package from the Premiership in return, amongst other things, for them agreeing to abandon their efforts to challenge the cartel with the European Commission.
It looks like whoever remains in the Championship out of Bris or Wuss will have financial competition next season, assumning of course all three are not invited into the Premiership before the door slams firmly on all those left behind.
Perhaps LW would be good enough to decline the £500,000 from the RFU next season so that it could be spread amongst the other clubs? Oh yes, and then the wicked witch died and they all lived happily ever after!
I've actually got a certain amount of sympathy for Welsh on this - following the debate on Rolling Maul and the various sportsnetwork club sites it seems that the main stick to beat the club is that it's run by good lawyers. This has sort of led people to overlook what the money is being given for...
Basically, it's the difference (and I've seen some reports that £6.5m is in any case well higher than the actual figure) between what they were given in their two seasons in the prem, and what everyone else got. Essentially it's backfilling a hole dug by fronting up cash in advance for two seasons in the Aviva - and as far as we know, this may have sorted the problem for anyone going up in the future.
Basically, if Worcester, Roth, Bedford or anyone else that's ever been in the prem and never challenged the ludicrous funding allocation had done so, they'd have sorted this years ago. But they didn't. Welsh however did, along with driving a coach and horses through the MSC 3 years ago to boot.
So, if we take it that the money is basically refilling a hole, just because they've got a millionaire owner doesn't really mean they should turn down the central funding next season, any more than any other club that could get by without it should. Anyway, with their owner (not in Bristol's league but still a very rich man), even if they hadn't got the payout they'd still have been financial competition for the top sides next season.
Welsh seem to be everyone's favourite whipping-boys on and off the pitch these days, and I'm not convinced it's totally fair. All they're really guilty of is giving it a go (twice), and having the capability to pick on some of the more byzantine structures they've found themselves caught up in. Yes there's self interest in it, but it's not like they're not busily setting precedents for everyone else as they go.
Like I say, every other club that's ever been in the position of fighting in the prem with one hand tied behind their back *could* have called foul on a structure we all know is rotten. Welsh chose not to meekly keep silent...
I mean, I'm glad I'm a Moseley fan, but Welsh are actually hard done by, if not quite *as* hard done by as they sometimes seem to claim.
Re Moseley.....I really hope not. Not with everything, including bus advertising and the walls of the stand itself currently pushing the Moseley "brand." Changing will be spectacularly incoherent (if everything doesn't change), spectacularly expensive (if everything does change), and an utter waste of any money that's been spent on marketing and awareness raising since the new stand was completed, or that could be spent on other things (either way).
I assume it's in the hope that money will follow the name change. Maybe, after all it's been a spectacular and ongoing success at Newcastle Gosforth/Newcastle Falcons, Headingly & Roundhay/Leeds/"Yorkshire" Tykes/Carnegie, Rotherham/Earth Titans, Birmingham & Solihull/Pertemps Bees, Bristol Shoguns...
Probably worth noting there that Newcastle and Bris have now got sugar daddies. Otherwise all had (brief) success when they took corporate sponsorship money. Briefly being called Moseley Jaguars, or whatever, for a load of cash, fine. Calling ourselves Moseley Birmingham, when there's no cheques being written immediately and only in the hope that because of it one day there might be - lunacy.
We are Moseley. Let's have some self-confidence about who we are please.
Perhaps my game is up? Am I the only voice to want us to at least consider/discuss to incorporate Birmingham in club title. Did not Birmingham City Council provide permissions and back us to play at Billesley Common and a grant for our glorious new stand facilities- which sponsor could beat that?!
southernmose are we not confident about Birmingham?
Perhaps my game is up? Am I the only voice to want us to at least consider/discuss to incorporate Birmingham in club title. Did not Birmingham City Council provide permissions and back us to play at Billesley Common and a grant for our glorious new stand facilities- which sponsor could beat that?!
southernmose are we not confident about Birmingham?
since you ask... The city council were awesome, and if they'd made it a condition at the time then it would have been a different matter and made sense - something for something. Doing it retrospectively, however, is something a bit different. So, in answer to the question "which sponsor could beat that?" Literally anyone that puts in money *going forward.*
Essentially, if we change our name to say thanks to the council, which is what that contention would amount to, then what happens 2 days later if someone comes in with a million quid and says "you can have it if you change the name again to whatever." Does that mean we're as quickly withdrawing our thanks?
As a point of principle, I strongly believe name changes should be contingent on up-front necessity/inducement, not retrospective gratitude (except in the case of new things like stands where you start with a blank sheet of paper - no problem whatsoever with the Sam Doble Stand or the Boulton & Watt Banqueting Suite for example), and where possible time limited.
I would hope we are confident about Birmingham, but it doesn't alter the fact that I'd also hope that we've been confident about Moseley since 1873... I'm fairly confident about the West Midlands too - can we be West Midlands Moseley? Or Chloe. no particular reason, just always liked the name. Can we be Chloe? Seems as reasonable a name as any.
Post by kingsheathlad on Jun 26, 2015 16:51:37 GMT
If they move every three years , where next, ground share with West Ham at the Olympic Stadium next season. They have most likely now lost the new supporters they took on board in Oxfordshire for he last three years.