Replace one financially weak club with another? Why?

Maybe some SL clubs should be asking themselves if they can really afford full time squads.

I wouldn't say halifax are financially weak littlerich - just sensible about income expectations.

I am not sure what benefits Bradford in publicly criticising the ex-directors - more bad news and another tick in the box for licensing - i bet KPMG are enjoying the publicity of working with the rfl

If they raise that amount, does it mean they will settle the debts they owe on tickets to other clubs? It's not just the Bulls who are hit by their financial position, it's the others they take down with them.

If they can't raise the funds by private cash injections, then they should be forced to sell their assets prior to entering administration so that at least some of their debt can be paid.

There is talk of another french team coming in.

Is there? Who's talking? Which French team? Toulouse? They're currently losing at home to Fax 6-48. Mind you, no-one cares about results these days.

Would the Bulls have to leave SL if they go bust? Anyone know?

History would suggest not. London, Crusaders & Wakey all survived. I know Cru are not in SL now, but they withdrew, they weren't thrown out.

I hope Bradford pull through this and I want them to stay in SL, but how they can justify taking donations to stay afloat and still not selling any players or renegotiating contracts I just can't understand.

If I asked you to lend me £50 because I couldn't afford to feed my family, and then you found I refused to cancel my sky subscription to improve my own situation you'd feel like you'd been robbed.

A competitive squad is an expensive luxury for Bradford at the moment. As long as they have 17 bodies to put on the park and fulfil their fixtures it shouldn't matter to them if they are fielding a team comprising of stadium stewards and a couple of st. Johns ambulance men.

If they refuse to help themselves, why should anyone else help? Madness.

Would never like to see any team go bust and don't hold a grudge against their fans, but Wakefield had to sell many of their best players last season. I don't understand why Bradford seem to think it's acceptable to keep asking for money, without reducing their running costs. Hardly a level playing field in my eyes, especially when they're looking to take one of our better players off us.

I didn't agree with them asking other fans for money last time, and I certainly don't agree with it now.

SL just keeps getting better and better



The Bulls are prime candidates for SL 2

In two years time all this will be forgotten.
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I wonder what the terms and salaries are like at KPMG? , I could do with a change of career

That was all a sham. KPMG had lunch with Dick and Nige. That is all. They didn't touch one application let alone read them.

Moving along now, nothing to see here apart from a few hundred fans who've been HOODwinked . . . . .

Some people don't like to say "I told you so."

Not me though - I love it, and I did. (Tell them so.)

The alarm bells were ringing months ago, I would have thought the RFL would have had there own enquiry to avoid this superleague negativity. We,ve had some club chairmen having concerns of thr RFL transparency, maybe they are right.

Dont jump the gun people. The article says they are in talks with investors to come up with the 700k, no direct quote or indication they are asking the fans. If they cant get the money that way, I agree that they simply must get rid of some top earners and not expect people to help. They seem so reluctant to get rid of players but they arent exactly going to do anything this season anyway, maybe sneak into the playoffs (yes I know rovers are in the same boat). Surely they should try their damnest to help themselves, write this season off if it means a chance of avoiding administration

For clarification, in April they needed £0.5m to see out the month and another half mil by the end of the season.

Now, with the .5 already raised through the generosity of their fans and former players, they are after another 0.7m.

What will that be by the end of the season?

Time to sell some assets

They dont have any

where's adybull? Normally he's a;; over threads like these telling everyone that "he knows" what's going on and it's all fine


The Debt at Bradford would seem to be growing by about 150-200k a Month at present.........I would hate to see the club vanish, but surely it would be better for them to go into administration now, lose points and start building for 2013....at best they might get an away play-off game this year.

Not sure how many of those 10,000+ ST holders will be keen to purchase for 2013 unless some transparency is forthcoming.

Out of interest how did they lose 1.2million quid and over what period of time has this debt been building? I get the sense that maybe they couldn;t pay the rent on the ground and that is why the RFL stepped in to buy odsal so they weren;t kicked out and some clause invoked that allowed redevelopment of the ground?

Shame when you look at how they revolutionised the off the field game in early SL days. I guess nothing lasts forever?

Your confusing the bulls with keighely cougars, any hoot. Surely this has been coming since the exodus started when noble, fielden, vainikolo and the rest of them left. The bulls need to get real and stop trying to con their own supporters, they are stopping the progress of other clubs who maybe better suited to running a professional rugby league club.

You mean how they copied ' Cougarmania ' ?

Exactly!

According to a thread on the Wakey section, we are interested in signing Whitehead, Kopczak and Elima....

What goes around, comes around, ey? Remember Obst, Jeffries, Millard, Ferguson all being "poached" by the vultures? It seems like the tables could be turning. I doubt that we will sign them, but its nice to be linked with some good players for once.

I always enjoy the Cougarmania mythology.