Well as the two other TV games are Hudda/Wigan and Leeds/Warrington, I can't see Bradford/Wakey being a better TV game. Both sides are playing some awful rugby at the moment. It really will be a case of who plays less worse on Sunday.

Although I don't rate Childs, he has improved. I expect Silverwood and Thaler to get the TV games and us a pick from the rest. Probably Bentham or Childs.

The sad fact is that the players have taken their collective bat home. We will still finish in the bottom two even if a miracle happened and the good lord gives us all 6 points back. As it is, with nobody having given even a hint of any point that might be remotely productive to take on appeal, it seems improbable that we will get anything back; but the way we are playing I reckon we would need about 12 or 13 extra points from the Panel.

To be honest, what we needed wasn't the six points but the lost revenue - and we really needed it before the season started. With the original team, as a settled unit, we were way more than six points better than Wakefield.

"To be honest, what we needed was more revenue to pay for the team we had, and we really needed it before the season started. With the original team, coupled to our insufficient revenue streams, we were well on our way to bankruptcy."

If only there was some way of knowing what you were earning, so that you could spend accordingly...if only...

And the reason you are in the is that it was a team you shouldn't have had in the first place.

You obviously couldn't afford that team as you went into admin. Twice. FA you are deluded. And the sooner Bulls are relegated the quicker you may snap out of it.

Good thing that you are not hearing the appeal then as you seem to know what the outcome should be. Or perhaps the concept of force majeure combined with the appeal panel being independent (ie no RFL representation) is a bit too subtle for you.

As well as the six points hurting, I think what also really killed us was the length of time we were in Special Measures. The take over took far too long for whatever reason.

Not that you probably have a clue what one is, but that's a total [inon sequitur[/i. Google it. The administrations were in neither case precipitated by overpaying players, but the background to each admin is well known and so you are either bullting or just trolling.

So just for clarity. You could afford that team, you never went tits up twice and did pay your players on time. Yep, financial stability is what comes to mind when you say Bradford Bulls.

FA wasn't talking about pruning bushes.

You are denser than the average neutron star. You are to clarity what Toulouse Lautrec was to pole vaulting.

To you, perhaps, but I think you may be in a minority.

Mable - I refuse to believe that you genuinely think we went into Admin twice simply because we had a team we couldn't afford.

I know it's a great throwaway criticism for people to use but you do realise it's a nonsense right?

You've gone and done it now, because that is TWO posts for Mable - who can't even spell her own feckin name - to mull over. Given she clearly can't chew gum and walk at the same time, I fear you have now caused brain overload and Mable will be a shivering wreck, crying in a corner somewhere.

Murderer.

My incredulity got the better of me. I genuinely want to know if people seriously think when we went into admin, the second time in particular, that we did so because of our world class star incrusted team.

In Mable's case, the first task would be to fire up sufficient neurons for her to actually "think" at all. You never quite know, of course, and there was that parrot once that acquired a vocabulary of hundreds of words, but for Mable to then progress from arguably sentient to "serious" thinking seems, on available evidence, a bridge too far.

Well, you know what some people are like FA, like giving a dog a bone, they just don't know when to let it drop..

The simple fact is that expenditure grossly exceeded income, and this deficit was not underwritten. Hence administration occurred. Had expenditure and income been more closely aligned, the company may have been able to continue trading.

No shìt, Sherlock...

Wow with such knowledge like that you must be a supreme business man.

Bear takes roll of Andrex treewards.

Maybe he could run advanced business masterclasses as a fundraiser for the Bulls

Are you Gerry Sutcliffe