Those would be the ones donated by a local supplier for the wear it red campaign to raise cash for research and awareness of women's cancers?

No money of the Bull's money wasted there but you keep grasping for those straws.

The Bulls Captain must have called the toss wrong when they played the challenge cup match against the Broncos this year.

Yah, and what a historic cup run you went on. Well, the last game had a historic score line..

I wonder how many on here have actually run a payroll?

It seems remarkably odd to me that the payment is delayed until 8th August - why? Once the bank are assured that there are funds in the account, then the payroll could be run immediately, I wonder what the delay is for and whether those employees who have gone overdrawn or been otherwise embarrassed have had a promise of full recompense?

FWIW I wish Bradford well and hope they come through as a Salford season ticket holder for many years I do know the gut wrenching feeling of constant promises of new dawns, each one false - but hopefully not this time for two heartland clubs!!

Pff at least I can afford straws



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Well, you are embarrassed because of the incorrect bull you gleefully posted shortly before the actual facts emerged. You know what you put. If you have short term memory problems you can even go back and read it. The (plainly obvious) fact that this has been an embarrassing episode for the club has nothing to do with you having made an utter tit of yourself.


Arithmetic clearly isn't your strong point either, then? But leaving your innumeracy aside, yes let's see what happens in the future - for every business on the planet. Is there an alternative to doing that? Mystic Meg, maybe?




Not quite. You are embarrassing yourself, all by yourself, so we don't have to.


Aww, bless. You've worked yourself up into such a lather, that now you're suggesting the Bulls "aspire to" cash flow issues. Don't you see why that kind of shiit makes you sound like a moron?

I mean I'm like trying to help you out here, but you make it impossible.

I don't remember much sympathy from the bulls in 96 when leeds were struggling and they were riding high.

When lodon were struggling they voted them out. When wakefield and crusaders struggled they circled like vultures on their players.

I remember a tirade from their then media manager stuart duffy? in a 2006 matchday programme dedicated entirely to slagging leeds off and taking an abnormal and disturbing amount of pleasure in leeds lack of silverware, while their fat fans gleefully quaffed down pies and burgers, chuckling to themselves.

As long as their employees and players get gigs elsewhere I'm happy to see the club rot.

It's a shame your team can't show as much defiance and fight, as you clearly posess.

That might have been true a couple of seasons ago in the case of several players (and I said so repeatedly) but in the main I have been very happy with the amount of dog in the current squad this year, especially given where we started from, and being on half money of everyone else. The Hull game was one example of it, as is the miracle that we are still live in the race for a top 8 spot despite having a 50% funding penalty.

They'll do for me.

Always the case when there's only 1 turnstile open. Still, 1's more than enough.

missing a key fact from your "statement", our main income source, the TV money is half than all the other clubs. That is why Khan has bankrolled the club. If you halved the SKY money of ANY other professional sports club, including football, they would have to be bankrolled by their chairman. Any club with a chairman who hasn't got a bottomless pit of cash, would struggle.

Im assuming you didnt pick up on the pi5s taking in the post and fishing for thickets. Look in the mirror stupid and shake your head.

www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/rugbyl ... -Kahn.html All is good...well until nov!!

www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/rugbyl ... -Kahn.html All is good...well until nov!!

To be fair to Mr khan,when he took over he did say he was going to invest 2 million + into Bradford bulls and Odsal

The Bulls took a short term Loan from the council we are told......around 200k. Then the 200k of wages are late being settled...the owner rides in with 900k, of which, 400k is already accounted for.
The last 3 home games at Oddslum this year feature 2 teams that bring their fans on a skateboard....the overwhelming majority of fans at those games will be made up of your 6,500 ST holders so there will be little income at the gate.....that 500k will only go so far.

On the topic of half the SKY Money.....it's not like Bradford didn't know they were a half mil down this year.......but instead of cutting their cloth accordingly, they have spent more than they could and their owner had to REACTIVELY re-mortgage other investments to give them enough cash to see out the season.

This loan was a REACTION to failings at Bradford to generate enough cash to pay the wage bill...dress it up how you like, it's not a good look for the club or the sport.

Seriously, apart from the £200k loan from the council, the rest of your figures seem to be plucked straight out of the air.

Group hug.

Seriously. What on earth is going on at the Bulls? I thought they were OK? Is it all just rumour and media negative hype?

We have cut the cloth accordingly, we are spending no where near the cap. Look at the players we have lost, Kopczak, Jefferies, Burgess, Elima, Hargreaves, Whitehead, Crookes, Sibbitt, Ainscough, Pryce, Joseph. We do need a squad you know!

Omar took over a club that was literally days from folding. He has had to start from the bottom up. Maybe ticket sales and gate crowds weren't as high as had been hoped. Omar is plugging the gap the same way Ken Davy is at Huddersfield, David Hughes is at London and Abamovich is at Chelsea.

I agree probably not good for the sport with us in the headlines about not paying our players again, certainly won't aid the sport in getting a sponsor, but i think some people need to calm down, we're not on the verge of going bust again.

Your puerile verbiage just lost you the right to be taken even remotely seriously. Goodbye.

Out of the air eh....
The 200k wage bill was widely reported, [url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/10581170.RFL_join_Khan_in_insisting_Bradford_Bulls_are_not_back_on_the_brink/here[/url as was the 6,500 ST ([url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/10402241.Bradford_Bulls_pay_plan_to_hit____magic_10_000____season_tickets/here[/url) holders and the 900k the owner has just raised from re-financing his assets [url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/10587678.Bradford_Bulls_owner_Omar_Khan_injects___900_000_to_pay_wages/here[/url.
900k less the 200k council loan = 700k
700k less the 200k wages that are owed= 500k
London and Catalan away fans do travel by skateboard
the SKY money is actually about 600k light..see [url=http://www.superleaguefans.com/forum/thread-12471.htmlhere[/url

Nothing was plucked out of the air other than the business plan that has failed to deliver the expected revenues at Bradford and therefore required this 900k to be raised by the owner.

in other words you know I am right, but will use my calling your ground a slum to retreat...



...this saga at Bradford isn't over...not by a long stretch.

And what of the money OK has invested in the club prior to this amount? Have you taken that amount into consideration with your rant? I don't believe you have. Just so you know, that figure is close to £800k.

Also, that loan, like all loans won't be paid off in a single lump sum. It'll be paid of in installments.

The money is there to plug funding gaps, such as the ones you've pointed out like London and Catalan fans could turn up in a minibus and still stop to pick up a hitchhiker on the way. But the club has also put things in place to try and encourage more people to attend those games, such as an offer on groupon for cheap tickets for both games as well as offering friend for £5 for the Catalan game.

But as you point out the Sky money is about £600k light. But the investment, so far, is over £1.7 million excluding outside loans.

As much as you and others might wish for a further financial crisis at Bradford, it doesn't look like it's coming any time soon.

David Hughes puts that into the Broncos each year!!

Edited for accuracy. Incredibly (I know this is hard to believe) Bradford Bulls weren't the first club to go bust and they aren't going to be the last. People can patronise and talk about how well their club it run but irrespective of who you support your club probably has gone bust before and probably will do again at some point.