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Hi Andi, things had been rocky between the clubs until a couple of years ago. Then Hornets got a new board who made big efforts to get things back on track. The football club felt the same way and relations between the two clubs were really good. The best they’d been for a long while. Then the football club got a new board.
They went through the ground rental agreement with a fine tooth comb. Previously it had mostly been “ gentleman’s agreements “. They wanted a big cut of the car parking for our games. So nobody gets paid now and car parking is free. They wanted to charge us exorbitant amounts for use of the scoreboard - stewarding etc. So then we were only allowed to use 1/8th of the ground with a limit of a 1,000 unless we paid exorbitant charges. We’d agreed a fee for the use of the ground for the England v Fiji game last year with the old board. Rochdale is the home of Fiji rugby league. The new board wanted £60.000 up front for us to stage the game ! So the game went to Salford and everybody lost out.
They closed our club shop, then they closed the club office, took down all our signage outside the ground. Finally they removed all our memorabilia from the main stand ! If it wasn’t written down in black and white we couldn’t have it. They didn’t want us at the ground but they knew we had a cast iron lease of the ground so they decided to freeze us out by other methods.
Well, look were it’s got the bastards - relegation from the football league unless they get a miracle.Up The Rovers. Tyrone. ( John C. )
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Hi John
Thanks so much for filling me in. Finding stuff out about Hornets is so difficult nowadays. I saw about the Fiji game and wondered what had happened. Talk about cutting off their nose to spite their face!!
You have to wonder what the football club board were hoping to achieve. You could (almost) understand it when they were in an upwardly mobile state a few years ago but the last two or three years have seen steady decline. Creating antagonism when both clubs would be better pulling together just seems bizarre.
As you say Up the Rovers - and hopefully, sometime in the future, Up T'Hoooooorrrrrrrnnnnnnnneeeeeettttts.
Cheers Andy (Neil T.)
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Thanks Andy, I think they were new to the job and had delusions of grandeur. They know better now. Hornets have friends on the local Council and I believe the football directors were told in no uncertain terms that all the shit had to stop if they wanted support from the Council. Will shall see.
Regards John C.
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