That is the whole point Matt - the bid team had spend $700,000 to prepare a very significant document that was pumping millions into both Perth & North Sydney Rugby League and V'landy or Abdo couldn't even contact them to discuss the issues before going public. Extremely poor form.
He obviously did things that made the arl not want to deal with him
So the reports seem clear that pvl did terminate his bid and is going on a new path without him
What could the potential reasons be why pvl got ticked off ?
1. Ignoring requests by Peter Beattie to Cummins twice that the license fee needed to be close to 20 million
2. Talking up how strong wa would be then having to go to Sydney investors
3. Taking on board investors who might be people the arl didn’t want to deal with
4. Not allowing investors close to the bears to invest
5. Potentially (and this is a guess) trying to revive the reds brand in some way into the bid and this is just guess work by having their logo on the jersey or the Perth pathways sides named reds ?
Somewhere in the above is the truth about what happened