Omar has left the club with immeadiate effect, along with sutcliffe and vipin joshi.

The new owners subject to RFL approval are mark moore, owner of bedz r us, and ryan whitcut.

Out of the blue that one

A huge shock.

I wonder if he'll want his 900k back

From the website

25th September 2013

Following an exciting year, it is sad that due to ill health, I intend to hand over the reins to new owners, Ryan Whitcut and Mark Moore of Bedzrus, subject to RFL approval. Ryan and Mark both share the same passion as I do for the club.

My objective, together with Gerry Sutcliffe MP, to move the club from the threat of extinction has been achieved and I have spent every single day for the past year at the club in order to reinvigorate it and bring it back to life. A lot of hard work and investment has gone into Bulls and now it’s time to ensure the longevity of the club, which is part of Bradford’s Heritage. The club is in a much stronger position and the time is now right to move it forward.

Bradford Bulls will always be part of my life and I will never forget the kindness, loyalty and friendship shown to me and my family by the supporters and everyone involved at the club.

I would like to thank all the Board of Directors who have worked tirelessly with me to save the club and can confirm that Gerry Sutcliffe MP and Vipin Joshi also intend to step down as Directors.

Are sutcliffe and joshi ill too?

Well thanks for everything Omar, thank you for saving the club when it was on its knees


But what happens now? Does anyone know anything about Mark Moore?

The knee-jerk reaction to something like this is to fear the worst, assume he's got out while he can after realising there's no way we can make it through another season with reduced central funding.

Jeez, Gutterfax is going to have an absolute field day with this one.

Didn't see that one coming....

Where does that leave the brave new, innovative management structure Khan was proposing recently?

It's all gone a bit quiet on that 14 person board hasn't it?

his heart wasnt in it

does this mean he is taking the waiters with him too

I did.

I couldn't see any longevity from Khan or Sutcliffe and I said so on here.

Any proof that he's put £900k into the BULLS or was that all in his and Sutcliffe's heads also?

So much for their LT plans.

More to come out imo.

Isn't Ryan whitchurch Omars number 2 in all his other business ?? Maybe Omaris just stepping down from being at the front but will still be in the boardroom ?

Everyone missing the bleeding obvious!

Bulls as Sleeping Giants being taken over by BedzRus

So everyone should sleep easy tonight!!



Pre season training will now start with pillow fights! quilting comps and mattress testing

I'm not really surprised by this announcement as the guy really couldn't do right for doing wrong.

He's invested time and money (and lots of it) to save a club on the brink of oblivion and yet he's been on the end of some unfair and quite outragous critisism from sections of our so called support.

All he did was stop the club from folding. I cannot see for the life in me why anyone with the best interests of the club would not support the owners. Its no wonder his health has suffered throughout this year after such personal attacks.

Omar - I for one am very grateful that you stepped in and saved my club. I will always remember the role you played and wish you the best of health in the future.

What he said

I second bullinenemyland post

Heard on the grapevine that apparently Omar was trying to sell the club on for £1 the catch being taking on the debt of the club which was around the £900k mark, so effectively buying the club for £900,001



Just hope Mr. Moore sells plenty of beds

Anybody know anything about this chap? Is he a Bulls fan, is he loaded, does he have the foresight to take us forward?

Good luck for future Omar. You will never be forgotten by me and many othet supporters for what you did in our time of need.

I suspect we don’t know the full story here. I just hope the future of the club is in safe hands. Any chance of Mr Moore saying anything to allay our fears. Who is he? Is he now the new owner or just a replacement director? His he wealthy enough to bankroll a SL club? I suspect Khan must retain some involvement if Whitcut remains on the scene. I’d be interested to see what the shareholding looks like now. What’s happened to the new Board of Directors recently mentioned? Is this the start of that taking shape? Did Khan really pay that £900k into the club to leave a month later? What happened to that share issue with the supporters that Whitcut was meant to be working on?

Perhaps a fans forum with the new owner (if he really is the owner) is a good idea.

Well don't expect us lot at the other 13 SL clubs to fall for the old 'sad eyes, and please put your loose change in the bucket' trick again .... anyhow, I'm skint.

Seriously, hope it works out ok, especially for the supporters caught in the middle of these things, and for the bloke himself if his health has suffered from trying to prop up the club whilst it gets sorted out.

edit: Any chance the mods can get the spelling of the blokes name right in the thread title?

On the plus side, nothing relevant comes up for a search of '"mark ian moore" scandal' or '"mark moore" bedzrus scandal'.

I've had some fun in another context with similar searches recently.

At least he's saying the club is in a much stronger position now so that's encouraging.

I suppose that's preferable to the old 'I've been an unmitigated disaster' statement.

I wonder where Chris Caisley fits into all of this?