Three promotions wasn't it?
The answer to the Freeman comparison is that when, as a County League side, you can afford to offer players from Conference sides more than they were getting for playing against professionals each week and afford to sign players such as Sam Gargan, Tommy Fraser and...
Munkfish is right - Whitehawk put the players who have come straight to them from professional clubs on contracts with Kingspan that pay them what they would get as pros. They don't even need to turn up to work for Kingspan, so are effectively being paid to play for Whitehawk
More money than...