Robbie Paul announced tonight that all the 1 st team squad are free to find another club

Big Problems is what I hear! Nicked from the Bulls Meassageboard

The club has some significant holes in the budget. The budgets set for 2014 are not realistic. Departments within club were given unrealistic expenditure which did not match the info given to RFL. 2014 is about survival... that is objective number 1. Last owners borrowed significantly against the club and many of these have only come to light.
The owners are treating the club as a business and will not spend any more than what is coming in via income. Staff will be/have been cut from every department including the football department. All players have been told that if they don't wish to stay at the club they are free to leave.

Wakefield, Cas and London are all not in a much better position if at all. SL and the game in general is buggered. Sadly I cant see things improving. Fax are best staying well away from Stupid League as it offers us nothing but problems for me

Robbie will not be working cheap either ,I bet he`s wishing he`d never gone back. Good job he has his media work to fall back on .

Currently, Super League is not fit for purpose and right now, top flight RL can't afford full time players but chairmen don't seem to be able to admit it. A load of drunks in charge of a whiskey truck.

We'll that's the end of promotion and relegation then. Can't have a Super League without the Bulls!

On their forum they're saying Big Nige is happy with how the Bulls' new board is running the club financially! A man of experience!

How can he assess how the new board are doing? They've not been there long enough!!

SL is an elitist organization, fixing the competition for the benefit of its negligent members. It's basically Rugby Union from the late 19th century.

Sad state of affairs currently in RL. Past few years has seen crisis after crisis at one club or another.

Celtic (twice). Salford, Wakefield (twice?), London, Salford, Bradford (now twice) and that's just in super league!

The World Cup was a success with some good crowds. But it masked the fact that there's a right mess to sort out in the domestic game

Farce after farce. Why are they untouchable? Just demote 'em!

I thought ALL these clubs had been vetted by Solly Blake at RED HALL, Hmmmmm

Fax to merge with bulls rumour is gathering pace, playing out of the shay - Halifax Blue Bulls for SL 2014

I think we are all right on our own thank you very much.

Same source said Leigh to merge with Wigan even more than they allready have, playing out of the DW stadium known as the Wigglers.

I heard today that they are an extra £400k in debt that the new owners didn't know about from Khan and his cronies. So do they have any assets that they can sell to the RFL to go with the hole in the ground or better still just shut em down and fill it in.

Groundhog day! Back to reality for Mr Wood and his cronies. Financial prudence and vetting -you are having a laugh.

www.sportinglife.com/rugby-leagu ... r-bradford Quote =#0000FF""Our incomings simply do not match our current outgoings" Does the RFL ever look at the accounts of SL clubs? surely if they did they will have known that and I quote. =#0000FF"our incomings simply do not match our current outgoings" The game is a mess, www.sportinglife.com/rugby-leagu ... tive-stage And finally, do you think they have anything to learn from us? www.sportinglife.com/rugby-leagu ... -cup-tipsa Thats like a corner shop telling ASDA how to sell goods. Bring back Rugby League as it was. Please! I might be wrong. I often am.

www.sportinglife.com/rugby-leagu ... r-bradford Quote =#0000FF""Our incomings simply do not match our current outgoings" Does the RFL ever look at the accounts of SL clubs? surely if they did they will have known that and I quote. =#0000FF"our incomings simply do not match our current outgoings" The game is a mess, www.sportinglife.com/rugby-leagu ... tive-stage And finally, do you think they have anything to learn from us? www.sportinglife.com/rugby-leagu ... -cup-tipsa Thats like a corner shop telling ASDA how to sell goods. Bring back Rugby League as it was. Please! I might be wrong. I often am.

Quote ="halifaxjohn"www.sportinglife.com/rugby-league/news/article/480/9058334/new-cash-crisis-for-bradford www.sportinglife.com/rugby-leagu ... -cup-tipsa Thats like a corner shop telling ASDA how to sell goods. .'" It was just like ASDA, stack 'em high, sell 'em low.

Quote ="halifaxjohn"www.sportinglife.com/rugby-league/news/article/480/9058334/new-cash-crisis-for-bradford www.sportinglife.com/rugby-leagu ... -cup-tipsa Thats like a corner shop telling ASDA how to sell goods. .'" It was just like ASDA, stack 'em high, sell 'em low.

No sympathy at all for a club who lorded it over us and poached some of our support, sponsorships and young players when we were on our knees and we took our medicine by getting relegated yet they were saved by a concocted deal by the RFL.
Enjoy your pain next season Bradford like we did!

This

I think it's hilarious, it typifies what franchising is all about & not what franchising was meant to be about.
It's all lies, lies, lies. As with any club, i feel sorry for the genuine people who are involved, following your sports teams is an emotive part of many people's lives and lord knows, as Fax fans we've been there ourselves but this SL dream is a washout. Scrap it now, we're no nearer to catching the Aussies than we were prior to SL starting.

....and just when you think things couldn't get any worse: www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/s ... al_action/

....and just when you think things couldn't get any worse: www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/s ... al_action/

Quote ="Fax Machine"....and just when you think things couldn't get any worse: www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/s ... al_action/'" Tip of the iceberg

Quote ="Fax Machine"....and just when you think things couldn't get any worse: www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/s ... al_action/'" Tip of the iceberg

This is how you run a club in order to get a Suoer League franchise?

And people still praise Richard Lewis. It was ENTIRELY his responsibility to make sure HIS system contained checks and balances BEFORE preaching to other clubs outside Super League that they weren't somehow good enough.

Disgusting.

The disgusting thing is they are considered "iconic" cos they were successful in super league. What's completely ignored is they did it with money that wasn't theirs that is never gonna be paid back.

Then fans of championship clubs were slaughtered for saying the RFL bought Odsal to prevent administration and that fans were mugs for chucking £500K into the black hole. The arrogance from super league was staggering. Any non SL club would have been allowed to disappear. Double standards - you can keep Super League

I've posed the question on the VT, that without a ' complete competition financing TV deal ' licencing/franchising is unworkable in british sport?