Scarlet Pimpernell wrote:
Let us not forget the our own council gave us £2m plus they provided the money to buy the ground. The latter was of course a loan and needs to be paid back but I believe they granted us a reasonable length of time before the first payment.
The money granted to us was specifically tied to community projects, which the club have to report on directly to WMDC.
The money given (on top of the money already loaned and written off), to SRD is for ongoing, day to day, operational costs - costs which they should/could pay for themselves if the weren't spaffing it on players they cannot otherwise afford.