Last updated 15:56, Wednesday, 30 April 2008

WHILE the lid may have been put on our waste bin saga (though don’t count on it), there’s another kind of dust that definitely needs to settle.

This is the stuff that has been circulating for weeks about the financial affairs of our professional rugby league club. Without exaggeration, had the right kind of help not been forthcoming (thanks partly to a beleaguered Copeland Council) there may have been a much sadder tale to tell at Whitehaven RLFC’s annual meeting last night.

The accounts presented to shareholders made for unpalatable reading and, while it gives us no satisfaction to say so, the audited figures presented were worse even than those recorded by this newspaper over the past few weeks.

Some of these figures were being disputed by members of the “old” Board of Directors who resigned en bloc (for one reason or another) around the time the sorry state of affairs stared to hit the fan.

Here’s hoping Haven can soon overcome its wows and the club can set about doing what it is expected to do the best – playing rugby.