How much did you pay for your season ticket??

plus...lets say, around 4000 people buy season tickets @ say £200 each that equates to £800000....now if 10000 people buy a season ticket for £85 each that equates to £850000

Whatever way you look at it being £50000 up and having an extra 6000 supporters buying drinks, burgers etc, then IMO thats just good business...

Keep the pledge!

Hetherington, not Kath...Filth.

The trouble is that the ones that have bought the cheap tickets aren't that bothered if they miss a few games. So you do not actally get 10000 turning up buying drinks & burgers.

And if you're charging £85 for a season ticket then the casual supporter resents paying £20 for a single match ticket. So the cash takings on matchday disappear.

And once you introduce cheap season tickets its very difficult to increase prices to a "normal" level.

The cheap tickets mean that there just isnt a route back to the days when we had 13,000 paying realistic prices, sufficient to finance a strong squad.

I would not worry too much guys the RFL will not let your club go to the wall,your great club will be rescued.

On top of the 4,000 full price season ticket holders you also have (based on our attendance figures in 2010) another 4,000 per paying on a game by game basis. With cheap season tickets you have far fewer people paying on the gate as many of those 4,000 have now become season ticket holders.

Both to blame, not just for the way they ran the club, but also for the way they have both acted!

I voted Caisley but only just. He left a real mess to sort out, but to me Hood's only plan was cost cutting and lack of decisive action with such as MacNamara, who it must be remembered signed some decent players (Newton, Solomona) but failed to get the best out of them, also signed some average player and didn't get average performsnce out of them (Platt, Sykes etc.).
BUT fully agree that if they genuinely care about the club they would have worked together to improve the situation, instead of lobbing hand grenades at each other which I fear will lead to a bad situation - how bad - who knows

I feel really sorry for the vast majority of Bradford fans. Thankfully the vast majority aren't morons.

Its both and others. Its not one decision, its a list of bad calls, bad timing, bad staff/player management/retention, bad financial management.

But, at the moment I could care less, neither is currently in charge and the administrator will file a report on directors descions to government (BTW, does anyone know if that report will be publically available?). Whats important now is who steps up in the next 9 days, if anyone.

The BoD, they always had the opportunity to inspect the clubs financial statements at any time, question pitch side appointment’s, and change things, however, in house squabbling and not talking each other has led to heads in the sand syndrome!!

oh and Garath Gates

No. It will not.

Thats a shame, I suspect it will be interesting reading.

there is no one person to blame.

the question is, does Bradford deserve a SL team?

Who do we have to lobby to make it public? Is it HMRC he is reporting to? Can the Data Protection act be used in 6 months time to see it?

It is a requirement of the insolvency legislation. These reports are required to enable what was the old DTI to decide if criminal or disqualification proceedings need to be considered. For that reason, the information cannot be put in the public domain.

I think the franchise system plays a larger part in the demise of Super League clubs that people recognise. It's that that demands 'super' stadia (with funds that often aren't present) and also that that forces the sale of reduced price tickets just to tick a 'member' box. Bring back P&R!

All the best for the future, in hindsight Administration was the best thing that could have happened to us, it's not necessarily all doom and gloom.

Haven't things changed since HMRC vetoed Rangers proposed route out of Administration?

As far as I can see, your troubles really began with Caisley buying success with money that wasn't there to begin with. To be fair, he wasn't the first and won't be the last to do that in sport.

Don't forget the most heinous of crimes of letting his son Liam play for Leeds Rhinos! Say what you like about Caisely as an agent for the Burgesses but at least he didn't send them to the Rhions



I blame Macca for his years of mediocre 'sards' and 'taking the positives' that eroded our fanbase. Some of Macca's signings and selections were simply diabolical and if Hood is to be believed taht we were spending a full cap during the Banana years then the blame cannot be far from Maccas doorstep. Has he actually selected a Bulls player for England since his new job? Says it all really, despite folk on here going on about all these world beating youngsters like Dave Halley that Macca was nurturing

Hood has to take some blame in giving Macca a long contract though, but how was he to know Macca would be a lame duck coach after all the good press after the 2005 GF win that was attri9buted by the players to Macca and not Noble? At least Hood put his coaching demons to rest with the appointment of Potter, the last thing we need is bluddy Noble returning with his one man rugby approach that won nothing at Wigan.

Wonder if Liam's proposed move to Aus is for family reasons?? ie his dad is running away too!

which chairman signed him, even though leeds had iestyn league papers when he went to union ????

The thing that amazes me, is how divided the camps are, is it Hood? Is it Caisley?
As far as I can see, neither of these guys have done you any favours and are both more concerned with making their opponent look stupid and less concerned with doing their jobs properly.
If I were a bulls fan I wouldn't want either of these guys within spitting distance of the club.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if Caisley only came back to make sure Hood had not left anything in his office drawers, put a quick boot in and have a mosey at the accounts to see the extent of the hasty papering job Hood did over the tectonic cracks, so keen was he to get one over his foe.
Could he really save the club, does he really have the investors, or was he just point scoring?
All of those are the wrong questions, the only question that matters is do the bulls want either of them back at the helm? I would say no chance!!
But half of you lot will want one or want the other, or at least try to salvage some reputation, while all this is going on your club lurches ever closer towards its d-day and the fog still hasn't lifted (not unusual for odsal, I know!!).

Personally I dont care at the moment as long as there's a club to go to. I'm sure all the wrong doings will become apparent when the administrators submit the report at the end of all this. I think both have been as bad as each other at times.

I have told you stop worrying your club will be saved,

Have you told them about Elima?