Hoffman tells of his big regret

Betham: I am serious

If Ryan Hoffman had his time over again, would he reconsider moving to New Zealand? Not a chance.

But as his career at the Warriors draws to an end, the 33-year-old back-rower made no secret of the fact that he leaves the club with one huge regret.

‘‘I regret I never took the team to a semifinal, 100 per cent,’’ Hoffman said.

‘‘I don’t regret coming here, I’m just disappointed in the fact that I feel like I have some unfinished business with the club and not taking them to the finals. Unfortunately that won’t happen.’’ Monty Betham insists he is not looking to make up the numbers after relaunching his crowdfunding bid to buy the Warriors.

The former Warriors captain first started the campaign to get fans to purchase the club from Eric Watson last week, but ended it on Monday, saying in a social media post that it was not a viable option.

But after speaking with the Ukbased Watson this week, it is now back on the table with Betham announcing on social media that he has entered into official negotiations with the long-time Warriors owner.

Betham, who played 101 games for the Warriors between 1999-2005, is meeting Watson’s legal team, Warriors managing director-turned executive chairman Jim Doyle and new chief executive Cameron George over the coming days before unveiling details of his plan on Monday.

Betham has assembled a team of high-profile business people to lead the governance of the club should the bid be successful.

‘‘Obviously my expertise is the football field and rugby league, it’s not in the governance and the shareholding and everything else. You need some real quality people who are very specific in their roles,’’ Betham told Stuff.

‘‘I can’t name anyone but there’s a couple of guys there that are known to all.

``The people I’m involved with are very good in what they do, they’re very successful and they don’t like making up the numbers and those are the sort of people I want to be around.’’