There's another article on the BBC rugby league webpage now, this time Marwan Koukash is complaining about the deal, more or less saying the same as what Ian Lenegan was saying, about not being given enough time and about how they were coerced with the £300,000 payment offer and about how they didn't think of the future and how the value of the deal would diminish over time, and about how it wouldn't be enough to solve the games financial problems and about how they should have considered other 'deals' etc etc they have all been very foolish etc etc.
Sounds like some teams were blinded by greed, although in fairness to Koukash, he claims to have voted against it, he is still blinded by greed however if he thinks he would have got a better offer.
Perhaps he wanted to sell the rights to BT sports or someone else, thereby forcing the fans to take out another expensive subscription, hardly the peoples club if all he can think about is his own pocket at the expense of the loyal fans.
Brian Barwick is also in the article, utterly dismayed at the dissenters and I have to say, I agree with him and the St Helens Chairman who called the new deal a 'triumph'.
Wigan, Salford and especially Bradford ought to be grateful for the extra £300,000 and stop complaining, to publicise their dissent and the inner workings of the deal is disgusting when they are busy banking the money, how ungrateful can you get?