how can clubs like bradford, london , wakefield , hull kr , and cas dictate to the likes of leigh halifax and featherstone what they have to do to get into the super league when they are all running their clubs at a loss and even now bradford look like they are goin bust its further proof that the franchise system does not work bring back promotion an relagation. the bulls should be made to start from the bottom like the crusaders were forced to do.

Agree

Only in RL can a club go into liquidation and carry on like nothing has happened. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/18609190 There's no hope for championship clubs getting into SL with this corrupt, blinkered strategy. You can be sure that if this happens, the HMRC will not let a RL club get away with a penny of outstanding tax in the future and who can blame them. (Looking back Leigh were very lucky).

Only in RL can a club go into liquidation and carry on like nothing has happened. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/18609190 There's no hope for championship clubs getting into SL with this corrupt, blinkered strategy. You can be sure that if this happens, the HMRC will not let a RL club get away with a penny of outstanding tax in the future and who can blame them. (Looking back Leigh were very lucky).

It's OK saying they will be allowed to fulfil their remaining fixtures, but who is going to pay the players for playing these fixtures. Doubt there will be enough money to pay the monthly wage bill. I'm sure I've read somewhere they have a £200K monthly wage bill. Hope Cas, Wakey, Salford, HKR and the rest of the SL clubs follow suit. I've no pity for any of them. They have all had their snouts in the SL trough long enough, not giving a damn about the rest of the RL clubs barred from SL.

Rumour mill says Cas and Salford next. Hope they are just rumours.

Heard Cas' name mentioned.

I don't think we are running at a loss nowadays, but I get your initial point.

I read somewhere that Salford needed more spectators a while ago so could be true , it may all come tumbling down on top of the RFL ,looking forward to seeing how they get out of it if it happens . Not happy at all seeing the best game being driven into the ground !

They are dead in the water bradford,if the players don't get paid they are free agents and can move to any club they like,so who is going to play for them???

Surely the rfl can't pay there wages until the end of the season

Hope the whole sorry mess of franchise crashes the game down,then and only then can we build a sport were the money is spread a round, I see the franchise fairies are saying bradfords demise is nothing to do with franchise??? well seeing as clubs get awarded on there franchise bid and scruntinised by a so called expert firm overseen by the rfl and the cartel that is super league who's fault is it???

Bradford have 10k in fans on each week who bring in no money as they practically gave the season tickets away just to tick a franchise box of 10k fans so if thats not the franchise causing a fault I don't know what is.

Lets get control of our sport again from these clowns who are hell bent on destruction of our sport,lets be honest most of the franchise fairies who support it on the virtual terrace are just southern nancys who have latched onto our sport over the last ten years and have no idea the rival battles of rochdale and oldham who in the not to distance past use to pull in decent crowds,take us for instance I remember going to oldham when they had thet own ground and decent crowds on compared to know,even under terzis not many years ago they pulled a crowd in the frost of 6k verus us at boundary park and the game was touch and go if it was on.

What made these people turn out for these games and more importantly why don't they today,the answer a clear path to the top year in year out.

So all the clubs died in the lower league at the expense of a welsh adventure[fine make it work on the lines of neath,let them grow on there terms and the continuing folly of the london[insert latest name adventure,and the southern clowns on the terrace say ah you don't get a crowd,no poop sherlock we had a great sport before and guess what winning teams got crowds and the natives turned up for the local bragging rites but us flatcapppers are not mugs and will not turn up for this poop being served as a 3 year adventure.

I see the latest farce from the ivory towers of super league the exile test is turning into yet another farce,players pulling out left right and centre,whats wrong with having a couple of nations touring,samora,cook islands papua??? on a yearly basis it rasies the profile of the game

But as long as super league fans can cheer over the hill clowns from down under and there happy were happy

Not entirely true given the Rangers FC situation in Scotland! Mind you, the SPL is the one other sporting organisation that can challenge the RFL in the 'Incompetence Championship'.

Rangers are being kicked out aren't they

If a business is running at a loss, cant afford wages and owes the taxman a nice wedge,,,,

Wouldnt it close?

Not necessarily. Even if they are, the 'new' club may even be allowed to enter as high up as Division One rather than the Third, so effectively bypassing two divisions.

But still, Gers will not be allowed to carry on in the top tier of Scottish football will they?

Depends on whether clubs vote the way that they say they will - there is a vote on 4th July between the SPL clubs whether or not to readmit them to the top division, even though they're a completely new club with the old one liquidated.

In terms of the Bradford situation, I had a Tweet earlier from a Bradford fan who is "feeling a bit uneasy at thought of a Bulls 'newco' playing in Super League". More questions than answers with that - I would personally expect that they finish the season with a team of kids, funded by the RFL purely to avoid the indignity of our top competition having to expunge a set of results because of a team going bust mid-season.

I don't know what would be worse for the remainder of this SL season. Bradford's results expunged from the record books or scratch team of kids on the wrong end of few 0-100+ defeats from now until September. A sad sad situation indeed at a club that the RFL franchise panel awarded a Grade B Super League licence to in 2011.

The situation not only shows how inept the management of Bradford have been but it also shows how bent the RFL and the scoring for a Grade B license was. Cr4p ground and no money will get you a Grade B licence. What a joke this game has become with those idiots in charge of RFL and the pigs feeding from the SL trough. No one cared about Leigh at the end of last season. Look how Oldham keep battling on and surviving as most of the Championship clubs have to do and all of them with rich histories within the sport just as Bradford have as we are constantly being told.

The chickens are coming home to roost and the SDL is crumbling on its foundations of sand. Sooner it collapses the better.