As a reader of the board, but never post until today. Since IOR arrival at pools they have never made a trading profit? Now some would find that unacceptable when you consider play-offs, TV monies, Cardiff season with merchandise sale etc. Once you start digging into the ownership of the club you find four other companies that leads you to a offshore account.

This leads me on to the yearly talks to purchase the ground from the council. These talks are held behind closed doors over the years but information was easy to get. One of the main point Hodcroft would raise was the price of a barrel of oil to plead poverty??? One council member replied to him on one occasion that he should have saved some money when it was at $140 This is a tactic being used to grab the ground on the cheap, the council never fell for that cheap trick.

To quote IOR "The situation with the council is very serious and the club has even hinted to the local MP to take notice but with no response". Now if this doesn't sound like a threat, I must be reading it wrong. Is this the way the towns club should do business, I think not.

Full houses week in week out at 20 quid a pop and for years on end. No way did they lose money