We agree on something Ste !!

iTS A BLOODY JOKE
When a Bradford player does a real bad challenge he goes to the RFL do they let him off and the Refs will work for the RFL also who own Bradford, weird!!!!!
Could a Bradford play go and play at any of the other SL club any time they like as theyll all have dual registrations for all SL teams I presume.

Time the championship clubs split away

Was losing interest this season,now nail firmly hammered in coffin

It truly is beyond belief, RL in Britain is an absolute joke and people wonder why we get no coverage and cannot expand the game.

Try explaing this to someone new to the sport let alone a die hard fan and they would run a mile

That tells me now that SL is a truly closed shop now. One of the main stumbling blocks also from the ABC bid was the names of the people backing the bid. The RFL wanted transparency (Don't laugh too much) and the group denied them that. Can't really blame the RFL for rejecting the bids. I totaly agree with the calls for the championships to walk away from the RFL now and safeguard the youth that it produces from being snapped up by them. One problem is how do we make the money up that we loose from a break?

I do not know what everyone is complaining about. There is not a cat in hells chance that the RFL will allow SL to lose Bradford. There will always be a SL francise available in Leeds, Bradford, Hull, Wigan, St.Helens and Warrington no matter what.

If you don't believe that then it's time to wake up and smell the coffee. The RFL is only interested in the remaining championship clubs as SL feeder clubs. They have no future as viable Super League clubs in their eyes.

The game is all about the awarding of SL franchise's and the franchise era I am afraid to say is here to stay.

If the likes of Leigh, Halifax and Featherstone do not like it then tough, there will always be some one at Red Hall eargerly willing to tell them all to 'Fc:uk off back to Rugby Union !!'

If true then Rfl won't be around in 10 years, they'll be playing hybrid rugby those clubs above under the banner of Super Rugby on sky sports!

Integrity of the sport not much in the RFL's mind.

Bad move.

This is an absolute disgrace. It's one rule for some, another rule for the rest.

I'm truly losing my faith in this sport, I don't know how long I can hold the passion for it.

Just read the tale and the fat controller appears to be the ring leader maybe he can finish his Rfl career as CEO of the bulls as he started and worked his way up to CEO of the Halifax blue sox. Remember them?? Yeah you guessed it woody led then to financial ruin as well. They are just about recovered now from his tenure

Well Glasgow Rangers got no sympathy so why the Bulls get extra protection?Well my team is in Superleague but i always believe in Promotion and Relegation.Other teams lost a place due to finances and to be honest we are a joke to the Sporting world.I am behind the Championship clubs on this one.

It proves what everyone outside SL knows that the game is bent
Best way to hit this organisation is to boycott all games ie International , Wembley final GF World Cup ect ect.

The championship chairmen need to meet and breakaway,what will we lose? promotion to super leager oh hang on we can't go up.

Our tv deal which we get errr er errrr nothing from

Clubs broke away and formed the nothern union time to breakaway again

How hard can it be to form your own league????

SL is looking after its own interests

Totally agree we need to split from those not in the Championships.
I go to Wembley every year but due to my total disgust with those running/ruining our game this year will be my last.
It`ll be all rosy on the VT with the usual clowns high fiving themselves all for the good of the game. These fools think that they mirror the majority of fans from SL clubs but from my experience I find that they `re baffled by some of the things the RFL do.

What do we lose financially from a split... Around £90k @ year ,let those parasites in SL have the extra cash, they`ll need it most when a couple more implode.

The problem with this walking away lark is were do the 24 C/C1 clubs find aprox £2 million a season to cover the short fall from central funds?

So we should just pull our pants down for a good old rogering by the Fat Controller, for a pittance.

I go to Wembley every season too but after today unless licenscing is dustbinned it will be my last.

Re the fat controller' no thanks' I would rather watch Star Trek.

Quality post BS.

or should that be wodgering by biguss dickuss.

Anyway back O/T.Its becoming clear now "IMO" that things have moved on apace in the last couple of weeks and the championships are to become devolopement clubs for the current sl clubs.
Every club that joins in whole heartedly with this will recieve lots of ££££s from the rfl and sl' which will easily offset the loss in gate recipts should fans of these clubs choose to stay away,infact theres a good chance that it will increase revenue at most clubs.
Lets face it as a club we're half way there now - how many DCs have we used this season ?.

If I'm giving the RFL the benefit of the doubt (and they have NEVER demonstrated they deserve such a thing based on previous very very badly thought out 'business' deals under franchising) then you could say they have guarenteed Bradford Bulls will not go bust today (thus meaning the game doesn't look exceptionally bad to those who don't follow RL - instead we just look exceptionally bad to a lot that currently do !), if Bradford went under tonight then it would have caused a farce.
They now have until the end of the season before being thrown out (if it happens) to the Championship.

What it does do for any club with aspirations for SL is leaves them a legal route - you cannot have a governing body that pays the players of a club and owns the ground along with a seperate arm of that same governing body funding the club in a league and it be classed as impartial judging on rival clubs bids - it just doesn't happen in the real world when people have so much money tied up in a investment (Bradford Bulls is now a investment by intention or otherwise to the RFL, its part of that business's portfolio).

I wouldn't waste a single cent on putting a franchise bid together, If the RFL doesn't return RL to being a on field sport (ie : bring back promotion and relegation and stop this folly of yearly scandals under 'franchising') then I'd spend the money on lawyers instead !.
The RFU recently found out that you can blag the clubs but things are a little different when it comes to explaining what you did in a court of law.

Perhaps its time the Championship chairmens thoughts are heard as the Bradford scandal coupled with the proposals to Under 20's players and Championship clubs means the Championships clubs very futures are seriously under threat at this moment in time - that cannot be good for the game.

Its not the governing body thats bailing the club out its SLE LTD.

I am guessing that the RFL knew administration was coming and taking the lease kept it out of the hands of the adminstrator. There is something not quite legal about removing assets shortly before administration

Very cleverly worded the press release saying that all SL clubs owned Bradford.

So they all have an interest in a club they compete against.

Seems to be a conflict of interest there.

This is laughable' or would be if it happened in any other sport.