I agree the timing of RK's comments is strange.
Perhaps it is just frustration with today's result boiling over.
The more I reflect on it, RK must have surely known months ago what the budget is, so it's less likely to be annoyance with whatever that figure is. Unless of course, he has been led up the garden path on that front. If that's the case then it's obviously hugely concerning.
If it's not the money, then it's the execution. Again here, they have had months to learn from the mistakes of the summer and to iron out exactly who will do what.
Kenwright and Elstone have never had my confidence but here too they have no need to be unnecessarily circumspect about spending someone else's money, when we have had none for years.
If Walsh is still having to untangle himself from Bill and Bob to do business then it's a failure of leadership on a colossal scale which would justify Moshiri's direct intervention immediately. To see Elstone trying to claim credit for the sponsorship the other evening was nauseating. If he is still contributing to amateur hour then he should be the first casualty.