martinwildbull wrote:
Totally with you on the injustice done to OK, and amazed that the RFL allowed it to happen. There again on the last point, maybe not. You would have thought that the deduction would have been used to pay creditors, but no the SL clubs abdicated the moral high ground, took the cash and ran
Not so sure about the calculation basis though, can you email me the written agreement of how the deduction was to be both calculated and deducted over the two years?
No need, the deal was that they would receive half the other clubs' funding in each of the next 2 years.
The easiest way to explain this is say you were in a league of 4, and the Sky money was £8,000. So you should be getting £2000 each
If the deal is that you get HALF what the rest get, then it is not as easy to work out as it may seem. But it is if you say OK, I get 1 share, the other 3 teams get 2 shares apiece. Total 7 shares.
So you have to divide £8000 by 7. Ignore the pennies, and just work in round pounds. Then I get £1,143., the others get £2,286
But the way they did it was this:
Total Sky money £8000
One equal share = £2000
so “Bulls only get half of one share = £1000”
You can immediately see what's wrong with this; Bulls only get half what the other teams get, if the TOTAL funding is REDUCED. But it wasn't. And so, because they couldn't do simple sums, they ended up with a "surplus", here it would be (of course) the leftover £1000
Of course, 1 minutes work by a 10 year old with a pencil and paper would reveal where the mistake was, and correct it. Instead, the clubs and RFL conspired to pretend the "surplus" was real, and then proceeded to divvy it - but this time, excluding us from a share!!!!!!
So in my simplified example Bulls get £1000, the rest get (£2000 + £333) = £2333.
Same in the second year, so overall we get £2,000, everyone else gets £4666. Which most 10 year olds would agree, is not double what we get.
Trebles all round!
