Rochdale Rhinos are ready for the eloquence of bidding...
Mar 18, 2018 21:23:35 GMT
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Post by happybadger on Mar 18, 2018 21:23:35 GMT
We caught up with Rochdale Rhinos' boss Theo at the Lord Mayor's offices in Manchester - he had some news:
Q: What were you doing here? Rochdale isn't in Manchester!
A: Yeah, I know, but it is in the metropolitan area, and filling Spotland will be most helpful to our finances, so we need to be on good terms with the City...
Q: Even Jose Mourinho?
A: Confidentially, that's my penance...I hired Eva Carneiro as our team physician, so that, and Manchester United's failure to make headway in the Premier League and Champions League, will be his penance... /giggles/
Q: So, what were you meeting here for?
A: Our RSC club will be in Oldham, and it will be called the Owls...and as anyone in Manchester knows, there's a tram line from downtown Manchester to Rochdale, via Oldham, so I was arranging some improved service to and from Spotland and Boundary Park...and getting some tram wraps agreed to.
Q: Wait a minute - Owls? So the Raptors aren't from Jurassic Park?
A: Now I know why they're paying you the big brass at Sky Sports! Correct!
Q: I see that smile on your face, as if you had stolen a giant chook from a redskin and a reaper...
A: Several cases of giant chooks, actually! When we need to host a big event, say, a game against someone from, say, Australia or South Africa, bringing lots of fans to see them play us, Spotland isn't quite big enough...but we got the rights to host a few games a season at Etihad Stadium...including, if we can talk the ASRL brass into it, Grand Finals...
Q: NO! Why not Old Trafford?
A: It's a bigger place than Etihad, but it's owned by the Glasers, and you know what greedy self-centred bustards they are...whilst Etihad is owned by Manchester Council...and Etihad is closer to both Rochdale and Oldham than Old Trafford...
Q: Final question: any special events you're planning this season?
A: Yeah - at all Owls' games, we'll show the Australian and UK governments how to properly run a chook raffle...oh, you forgot to ask how our side looks, and what we're going to bid on...the answer to that is this: I have 24 senior players right now, and I'd like three more, preferably without taking any from Owls, but if I need to win just two bids and move players up from Oldham as necessary, I can do that...
Q: What were you doing here? Rochdale isn't in Manchester!
A: Yeah, I know, but it is in the metropolitan area, and filling Spotland will be most helpful to our finances, so we need to be on good terms with the City...
Q: Even Jose Mourinho?
A: Confidentially, that's my penance...I hired Eva Carneiro as our team physician, so that, and Manchester United's failure to make headway in the Premier League and Champions League, will be his penance... /giggles/
Q: So, what were you meeting here for?
A: Our RSC club will be in Oldham, and it will be called the Owls...and as anyone in Manchester knows, there's a tram line from downtown Manchester to Rochdale, via Oldham, so I was arranging some improved service to and from Spotland and Boundary Park...and getting some tram wraps agreed to.
Q: Wait a minute - Owls? So the Raptors aren't from Jurassic Park?
A: Now I know why they're paying you the big brass at Sky Sports! Correct!
Q: I see that smile on your face, as if you had stolen a giant chook from a redskin and a reaper...
A: Several cases of giant chooks, actually! When we need to host a big event, say, a game against someone from, say, Australia or South Africa, bringing lots of fans to see them play us, Spotland isn't quite big enough...but we got the rights to host a few games a season at Etihad Stadium...including, if we can talk the ASRL brass into it, Grand Finals...
Q: NO! Why not Old Trafford?
A: It's a bigger place than Etihad, but it's owned by the Glasers, and you know what greedy self-centred bustards they are...whilst Etihad is owned by Manchester Council...and Etihad is closer to both Rochdale and Oldham than Old Trafford...
Q: Final question: any special events you're planning this season?
A: Yeah - at all Owls' games, we'll show the Australian and UK governments how to properly run a chook raffle...oh, you forgot to ask how our side looks, and what we're going to bid on...the answer to that is this: I have 24 senior players right now, and I'd like three more, preferably without taking any from Owls, but if I need to win just two bids and move players up from Oldham as necessary, I can do that...
