So can anyone actually expand on what you are all alluding to?

Restructuring allowing for more clubs to be in the Super League / Championship structure. Due to more clubs, promotion still happens but no relegation. Meeting about potential restructure happening this month I believe.

I've not heard anything myself as I'm not "in the know", but that's what people keep hinting at. How true it is, is anyone's guess.

And how it links in with Nigel, I assume the suggestion is that he will take over the Bulls, which has been his plan all along, and he just had his pals Cha-Lo in to look after it for a year while he gets the restructure in place and then sacks off the RFL job.

Not sure why Nigel would want to take over the Bulls job. He's on what, £300k a year. A nice easy job with no challenge whatsoever to his decisions. Clubs bend over backwards as soon as he flashes the cheque book at them to agree to a change to the sport, whether that be sponsorship, restructuring etc. When it all goes belly up, he's safe from criticism as the clubs as the ones who voted in the rule changes.

Why would he want to come to a poison chalice like us.

This is what I don't understand either.

All I can guess is that either:

a) He's just about to be ousted from the RFL in some sort of devious coup (some would say ' not before time')

or

b) He's part of some sort of grubby money-making scam involving selling off Odsal for vast profit.

Outside of those two options, I don't see why he would voluntarily give up his cushy and lucrative job-for-life at the RFL to get involved with something as toxic as the Bradford Bulls

Makes little sense to me either. But that's what I keep hearing people suggest is going to happen. I expect it to turn out to be cobblers if I'm honest.

Agreed, sounds like utter nonsense to me.

Still, when it doesn't happen, those in the know can say that it all fell through at the last minute.

I can't see that slab of concrete being on anywhere near 300k a year. The prime minister only scrapes 150k

Not necessarily a compelling argument.

If Odsal is sold off and he is involved in any way then the Police ne d to b involved, all speculation I know but sometimes no smoke without fire.

LE published his salary a year or two ago and I was completely gobsmacked. I can't recall the exact figure but it was a LOT more than 150k. I think it was shade under 300k but not by much.

275,000.

PLUS a whopping six figure wedge to top up his pension pot if I recall

To be fair, £275k a year doesn't go a long way with his Waitrose bills...

He needs 275k a year to feed his Pukka Pie habit

Can't see Nige taking over the Bulls, he has always preferred Halifax to us. Besides we don't have many pie stalls and burger vans any more.
Let's go the full hog (lol) and get Ralphy in as well, one chuckle brother is no good without the other.

I am lost for words. RL is on the decline, combine that with them throwing money around like confetti at ex players with no idea how to grow the sport, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see why the sport is on the ropes. For 275k you would have thought they could get someone good.

I think you're overlooking his early life in Buttershaw where he was, at one time, as I understand it, a Bulls fan. He does go 'native' though, in whichever environment he finds himself.

A little like Harry Gration from Look North, he too was a Bulls' season ticket holder, but now has the feign the look of a man in torment when his "beloved" York City get relegated. Never mentions the Bulls, of course, nor any other team in the championship - along with ever other reporter on Look North. Damn then all.

Gration really gets up my nose, quick to forget his roots and self promoting. Prehistoric and vaudeville... sums him up for me!

Wasn't he employed by the RFL in the not too distant past?

Briefly. He fell out with Maurice Lindsay.

Yes, Big Nige never really had any love for Fax, just for himself. You'll have to look long and hard to find anybody round here who has a good work for other than a four letter one.

100% agree.
So it isnt just me who thinks "wtf!" when people big-up that weasley hetherington-@rse licking muppet

But he does have his uses - if the dog has eaten something bad and I want it to vomit - I just switch Look North on and wait for grations sickly mug to appear - barf!