haha by any chance do you believe it when people say they chop peoples hands off when they steal? go to most indian restaurant in the uk and you can order a beer with a beef rogan josh. money comes before religion even here in dubai people drink more than they do back home and eat a bacon barm in the morning.

Well said Wheels !

I think you've been had mate.

Ref dubairl.
I think you will find most Indian people are Hindu,a vast difference between the Muslim faith. Also a fair section of hindus do not beef. Some so called Indian restaurants in the uk are in fact Bangladesh . Please don't think I am being pedantic. Anyway the food dished up in all these restaurants is by and large spot on.

No beer on the terraces would be an excellent place for most rugby grounds to start.

The bottom line for me is that we need Bradford Bulls (or whatever new name they may have to adopt) in the super league as unlike many of the current super league clubs they command huge support and I realise having made that comment that support often comes from success which Bradford haven't had a great deal of in the past few years but they remain a well supported club. All that said the SL competition would would be a weaker competition without Bradford in it, the revenue at all SL clubs reduce through their non-involvement as their fans do travel especially to Headingley, therefore whatever they can do to help the club through this period should be welcomed and applauded.

Im sure the fans of london,keighley and halifax wont give a flying about the bulls after they were shafted by them.
what goes around comes around

i was making the comparision i know the difference between islam and hinduism, i think we are misunderstanding each other here lol. hindu by rights shouldn't eat beef at all and most of them here are veggies, but the indian restaurants in the uk aren't even close to proper indian food (north or south india), you cant find a good chicken korma here any where its more traditional indian food, as the indians here are the majority.

Ref dubair.
Well played I think we are both singing of the same hymn sheet.
I am a frequent visitor to New York all the expats out there crave 'english Indian type food' if you understand my drift. The majority of Indian style restaurants in new York are even less authentic than their English counterparts.

another culinary exchange.
My son goes out to India two or three times a year on business .
I always say whilst you were there did you go out for an English . For some strange reason he does not think that funny!!

The Kumars at Number 42. Classic sketch. Fantastic even.

Don't think this takeover will come to anything personally. Worth looking at though if no one else is interested though but think the debt and everything else that comes with it is too big a risk for anyone to buy them out!

Isn't all this historical debt going to get written off though, especially if they get liquidated and this ABC group buy them for hardly anything and start afresh?

I know it's all complexed stuff and whilst I want to see the Bulls survive, to my eyes at the moment it seems as if;

• they are getting rid of all their debts
•starting as a new company with their historical debt wiped out
•not losing any star players??
•will stay in SL
•Are going to try and make sure they get the lease back from the RFL otherwise they will pull out?

And the only 'punishment' from the RFL will be a 4-6 point deduction that in the grand scheme of things is pretty incidental. They'll probably still be able to make 8th even with a deduction

I know some/all of this might be a somewhat over simplistic view but without knowing all the ins and outs it how it comes across to me

Nope, it was from 'Goodness Gracious Me'.

It's not that simple though (to my knowledge) if they liquidate they'll have to set up a brand new company and be voted back in to super league. The players contracts will be null and void and most of the good ones will have found new clubs by the time the bulls can begind playing again. They wouldn't be able to complete the season, the new ''owners'' or start up people would have to pump funds in to start them up again, they'd have to put all the infastructure into place again, they'd have to assemble a brand new team, they wouldn't be able to start playing again until next season.

The idea that they could liquidate, be rid of the debt, click their fingers and continue is cloud cuckoo land, it's crazy.

Liquidation would be an absolute disaster for the club.

I'm being pedantic, I know, but there are many "genuine" Indian restaurants in the UK, especially in London.
Granted, the other 98% (my sweeping guess) aren't "genuine" at all.
But hey, if that's what people like, where's the problem?

It all depends on what offer the creditors will accept to write the debts off. Liquidation will be seen as the last resort by all, seen as the club effectively don't have any tangible assets in that scenario.

"...the club, its ground, and all the players will be sold to The Arthur Foggan Scrap Company ..."

I know of a fairly authentically Bengali restaurant in Leeds, which granted only does the really authentic stuff on special nights set up for the purpose. It must be said that the differences from the normal fare aren't as vast as some people would have you believe.

Generally, eating Indian food in the UK is quite similar to eating Italian in New York. There's a cuisine which has formed by the influences of a country of origin (with lots of regional variations and traditions), and then both developed (food does that you know, in all cultures) in relative isolation from that country of origin within an ex-pat community, and also been influenced and altrered by the pre-existing culinary culture in the new country.

You could then call it "UK Indian" if you wanted to be a pedant, but to dismiss it as "inauthentic" or not "genuine" is over-simplistic.

Ref el diablo.
a fair summing up,also a lot of Chinese dishes came from immigrants into the USA , chop suey I believe originated in San Francisco .

What have you done with McLaren ..... sold it for housing?



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"I could have had a heard of cows grazing out there .... and they'd have scored more tries."

I have heard an allegation that the Bulls new deadline will coincide with the opening ceremony for the Olympic Games , and that the bigger story will provide a smokescreen so that the press and public at large will hopefully not be widely aware of the Bulls decision . This allegation is from a very reliable source , and the reasoning behind the plan seems to be a very good way of avoiding a minor scandal when announcing a pre-planned announceent that could otherwise cause outrage among RL fans , and discredit our game in the press .

Anyone else heard anything similar ?

"Bring me the blandest thing on the menu ..."