Does anyone have any idea what happening with the Visa's of Phoenix or Toovey.

Could it be to do with the bulls been a new company?

No, it will be due to The Home Office not being in the slightest bit arrrsed to get on with it.

Think the Home Office are more bothered about kicking folk out than granting visas these days. Let's not forget we still have our new halfback awaiting clearance too.

“League Express understands that the Bulls hope to start making progress with Geoff Toovey’s work visa this week. Administrative measures that needed to be in place following Bradford’s relaunch are now thought to have been finalised, allowing them to push on with Toovey’s application for a visa.”

I thought that was likely the issue with the hold up as well as there's been no talk about overseas players joining up with the club as of yet.
With any luck we'll have our new head coach in place and ready to start work by the end of the month

Thanks for the update, fingers crossed it will be soon then.

I really hope that's correct Bullseye. After all the mayhem of the past few months I have been starting to worry that Toovey was having second thoughts - especially as in interviews I've seen with him he says "if I become head coach", suggesting it's not a done deal. Nobody could blame him having seen the reality of the situation first hand for heading back to the sunny skies of Manly, although hopefully with a couple of wins under our belts he'll be feeling that the challenge of staying up might just be achievable against all the odds.

I thought we didn't have any money?

-sorry wanted to get that in before anyone else did

Someone told me yesterday that the Visa issues were down to trouble getting a bank account. Without said bank account, you can't get Visas. I don't know much truth there is to it, as I have no knowledge on such things, but it at least would make some sense considering what Bullseye quoted from LE and the lack of ability to take credit card payments (the payments they did take were done via the RFL if my card statement is anything to go by).

According to the RFL Operational Rules, if he doesn't get a Visa, then he can go for a Mastercard, although he might have to do the team talks by Skype.

It would appear the club still don't have in-house card processing facilities as, when I went up to the office yesterday, they still had someone sitting by the counter with the computer , ready to put card sales through on line.

That's what it was when I paid for my season ticket on my card too. But it popped up as RFL on my statement. I assume the RFL are helping them out in order to allow card payments until their own stuff is sorted.

With our track record and the number of payouts the old card company will have had to honour we will be lucky to get a new card machine at all

Anyone else hoping once we are able to get visas we have a couple of new players coming? Rumours we have been looking in NZ and Oz but all gone quiet, let's hope we have a few on application stage along with Phoenix

Heard today that bank account is sorted but now the problem is to get get a vat number.
Maybe some of our legal eagles can confirm if this is feasible

You can't register for VAT without a bank account number

Not sure the RFL are 'helping out', noticed when trying to buy tickets online that they're subject to a £2 RFL transaction fee (going up to £2.50 next month). I'm assuming this is handed on to the club in the case of paying with a card at the club shop.

Well Phoenix has tweeted that he's hoping to be joining up with the club in the next two weeks

I noticed Mick & Hobbo had to quickly retreat on their comments yesterday during the game. Throughout the first half they'd been talking about Geoff Toovey as the coach, what he was doing and what he'd done. In the second half they quickly pointed out that it was obviously on a voluntary basis and he's only on holiday until his Visa is sorted, and if he wants to offer advice while he's on his jollies, that's up to him. It sounded a lot like someone at the club had whispered in their ear to stop suggesting Toovey is working in case any border patrol folk happen to be Broncos fans and are listening in!

Without a visa you're not allowed to work full stop, even as an unpaid volunteer. Maybe some people ought to watch more Border Force on sky Living (or OK, maybe I should watch less

).

OK, I know some of these programmes are populist rubbish, pandering to the views of xenophobic braindeads but they show the reality of what goes on in the minds of these people and how they work. People need to take heed or the coach may be gone before he (officially) arrives.

He was certainly on the pitch during the warm up. I hope he came down on Mega bus with the rest of the Aussie backpackers!

Thai boxer John Wayne Parr met his wife Angie when he was training with Master Toddy in Las Vegas.

They've lived on the Gold coast in Australia for years now all because he ran over his visa by 2 days and got deported. He's Australian and she's American.

Rumous on twitter about toovey going to Leeds

Standard total b0llocks started by someone with too much time on their hands.

I could believe rumours about him sacking off Bradford due to the visa thing going on too long. The idea of him going to Leeds is ridiculous. Hetherington has very publicly given Brian Mac a month to sort things out. He wouldn't have lined up a replacement already.

What about Lilley for 2V?