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The club needs £1 million in order to continue to operate. They're asking for every supporter to donate £100.

So it looks like there may well be an opening in SL for a new club.

Hope they can get sorted out!

Holy sheet! That's about as serious as it gets, basically begging, cap in hand from their fans. Hope they make it, Rugby League wouldn't seem right without Bradford.

SL just keeps getting better and better, a 10 team SL now looks increasingly more likely

Just think, in the days before Super League, it was effectively a one-team competition ...

Speaking form a personal experience it’s an awful place for a club to be in. Trinity managed to raise approx. £25K of the half a million they needed to stave off the HMRC last year so it’s a tall order. The plus side for Bradford is that they have more fans and also 10000 season ticket holders who have probably saved £100 which could go towards the cause. Hopefully they get it sorted, if not, possibly administration may be the ‘best’ option, it has breathed a new life into Wakefield and perhaps it could do the same to Bradford.

I'm sure Warrington will offer 200K for that sheila in the 2nd row, Bateman? He'll be a looker in Smiths.

Yes it was, and what happened to them as a result? Fairly sure they were on the verge of bancruptsy and had to sell their stadium, nothing changes except the name of the club, and I include my own in this

Holy Hell - that's a bolt from the blue!



I can't understand how the entire proceeds from the sale of Odsal appears to have been eaten up in repaying a loan to the RFL when both the RFL and the Bradford BOD stated that it was to secure the future of the club? Surely some questions to be asked there!

Hope a rescue plan can be put in place to save the Bulls, but it doesn't look too likely at the moment.

I hope the Bulls fans who were wishing our down fall last year feel good now, with the boot on the other foot will be interesting to see what the RFL do here, as they have obviously already helped with buying the lease (even though your owner said it had nothing to do with financial trouble) which is more than they did for us so how far will they go? The writing was already on the wall in Jan that all was not well!

It looks like Admin awaits, wipe off the debt, start again but also have your best players raided.

It was to ' secure the future of the club at Odsal ' , it didnt state in which competition

You've just proved you're no better.

You do have to question how a club the size of Bradford can get into such a mess. It's often down to bad management as it was when my club was in trouble and others.

Here's hoping it is. They won't necessarily prove unviable, just in need of new ownership which is a different challenge for the club.

Looks like they'll have to sell off a few players. Tom Burgess, Elliott Whitehead, Bateman... Can't see the club keeping hold of these if they need to raise money.

We'll take Burgess...

This is all from a club which was one of the concrete "big four" not long back. A spectacular fall from grace and not one which is healthy for our game or good for any club.

I am not saying I am, I just remember been in this position last year and lots of people saying this and that, and again when we gained our licence it was merely a throw away comment.

As a side note if they do not go in to admin will this still be taken in to account when discussing the licences as even though it was not one of the factors this time when the RFL commented on us gaining a position they still said they had to comment on the situation

Burgess and Whitehead to Hull, Adam Pearson can get his checkbook out and gives you £400,000. Bradford stay in business. Sounds good to me.

What licence grade did they receive last year? Didn't the RFL look at their projected financial performance as part of the licence process?

I understand, but you should've just rose above it. Wakefield have come out of this strong, you don't need to play that game or be bitter about them.

This is a very serious dereliction of duty and a clear failure of the franchise system to spot a problem.

Last year Wakefiield were touch and go and rightly so - we went bust and the RFL refused to support us and rightly so - yet at the same time the Bulls must have been well in the mire and lying through there back teeth. They then got RFL support which was massive and should have been enough, it clearly wasn't - even the RFL are not that stupid and have clearly had the wool pulled over there eyes. Worst of all the Bulls seem to have made no attempt to cut there cloth in the last few month. It's like they feel entitled to be bailed out by the RFL and now their fans.

Sympathy for the fans not the club - the club should take the pain and we will have Burgess for starters as I believe that's how it works these days!

Not pleasant news. It's a terrible feeling when this happens to your club. Hope you can pull out of it. We where in a similar position not so long ago, I would'nt wish it on anybody. Good luck.

If they go into admin they won't get any money from the sale of players - all clubs will wait until they are in admin, no one is going to pay for players who will be free of charge in 4 weeks time.

They'll still be in SL next season. Bit of a non-story really.

So lets look at this from a historical point of view, 12 months ago the Bulls were in serious debt , had borrowed massively off the RFL and were clearly unsusstainable as a SL club, the RFL must have been aware of this as they were part of the debt

And they were given a licence?

So was it incompetance? , or corruption?

If I was the Halifax BOD this morning I would be rather upset with the character assassination carried out on my club by the governing body in the light of this situation

Three super league clubs in serious trouble over the last 12months or so suggests they don't.

FFS. Not good is it!

I'm pretty sure the club will survive but not sure in what guise. I hope they pull through this and come out of it a stronger outfit.