Just want to say thanks to Mick Potter - after a number of seasons where the team seemed to have little idea in how to play or pride in the shirt, he has forged a team which does both in spades - not the most talented team who have worn the Bradford shirt but certainly as strong a team spirit as any team I've seen. No stars, just a load of guys getting on with the job as well as they can. Made it worse MacNamara commenting on situation on Sky Sports - his lack of the coaching skills shown by Potter accelarated our demise!

With insolvency practioners sentiment never comes into the equation but equally you would think think game at the weekend is potentially a significant source of income?

Feel for Potter he has been very professional throughout and he has been at the sharp in this season with the team not in the comfort of the TV commentators box

Expressed exactly the same sentiment and suspicion on the Guilfoyle thread - I stated I believed we had an Independent assesment of our finances a few weeks ago with Guilfoyle's organisation - sure doesn't look that independent today!!! The warnings from the Plymouth Argyle fans have all come true!!

What's that I see coming over the hill? Looks like it's Sir Galahad with other white knights close behind.

OR...all of Adeybull's last post!

Adey has the nail on the head.

Why sack them all off for the sake of a week, maybe less?!

Ulterior motives at work for my money.

I would say there was.

We have been told it is Friday or bust.

Were the staff offered the option of working without pay for another five days, with no promises? That would not have worsened the financial position, and would have kept the club team in place at least until the final deadline, at no extra cost. Then they could still have been made redundant had no buyer manifested himself.

So, I say again: why make the staff redundant now? Today? For the sake of four days?

Why?

Even with this being on the cards for a while still makes me furious - some very loyal staff are paying the price for other people's mistakes. Is there anyway the fans could organise a donation assuming there is a game at the weekend to pass a bucket round?

Mick Potter was asked to stay on, working for nothing, by the administrator.

This is dreadful news for all who work and support The Bulls, I feel for you all.

What happens next? Can a new buyer now come in with no debts to pay off? I they can what happens to the playing staff? Do the new company inherit them or is it just the name Bradford Bulls they get?

Perhaps the backroom staff wage bill was a sticking point for the investor(s)? Seen as being too high so they've taken the oportunity to get shot. Given they will have to have paid them off I can't see that its to save money short term.

I don't like it any more than anyone else but lets not jump straight to the conspiracy theories. Losing Potter is a disaster as far as I'm concerned though.

I wish I didn't love them like I do cos at this moment in time I want nothing to do with CC and his shower. I feel that going on Sunday is somehow endorsing their actions. Assuming the game is on of course.

I'll be there shouting the lads on, of course I will, but it's DESPITE the new Board not because of them.

All of the backroom staff I have met and talked to love the club and are just as much fans as we are. There are much better, honourable ways, to deal with this than acting in this way.

was his reply printable?

Still time left for someone to step in front of the Caisley 'last to the wire' possibility.To be the best these days you need to have someone to bankroll the Club..they exist just as much in this part of the world as others...unfortunately,although our Club is important to the City and equally to the community it is part of...these people, whose huge fortunes were amassed from humble beginnings in this district, would appear to turn away and watch as another nail is fired into Bradford's coffin.Understand their right,but not their lack of Yorkshire pride.

Just a thought as Brendan Guilfoyle is wanting a manager to come and work on free basis, why doesn't he work for free to save more money going out of the club!

quote="BostonSpaTiger"Just a thought as Brendan Guilfoyle is wanting a manager to come and work on free basis, why doesn't he work for free to save more money going out of the club!'"

zero chance of him being there tonight.

My guess is that the players will be next tommorow. How many ? Who ? Watch this space........

If he had kept them all on unpaid, he would still have to sack them as if there is a 'white knight' they he could not afford to pay them or pay them off. Now they are sacked. Any white knight does not have to pay them.

If they had waited till after the London match it would only mean asking them to do the job for nothing and then sacking them. Which is worse sacked today, or sacked next week after volunteering for a week???

It's fine saying it's bad form and not what they deserved, but in the end if this is Caisley's plan, he does not want to buy the club as is, or cannot afford to buy the club as is. If someone else could then now is their chance. It may well seam underhand, but if the 'White knight' came in now, but did not have the funds to pay or pay off the staff, Bradford would surely just run out of money again.

What I don't quiet get is why they were kept on until today. If they could not be afforded today, then they could not be afforded last week either?

Because he is getting paid to make both sides of the equation equal.

Income = Expenditure

If he was not getting paid he would not do it. Someone else would. If they could not pay and administrator, then god knows what would happen, I'm sure Adey might know but I don't.

I guess he might get shot of those out of contract this year as they have nil asset value, those on longer deals will have a transfer value so I assume they will stay - one player who I'd like to shake his hand and say thanks on the OOC list is Elima - gave his all every match - memory of his last game and that tackle on Hock will stay in the memory a long time. Good luck guys

Simples. They were needed to keep the club going last week. Can't be sacking off the people actually doing the hard work till the last possible minute.

HMRC would have petitioned for the compulsory liquidation of the company, bank accounts would have been automatically frozen. Doors locked, contracts void, end of the line.

Admninistration was the only way of protecting the Bulls from HMRC.

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