Bradford Bulls sad, sorry state....... www1.skysports.com/rugby-league/ ... um=twitter and 49 years since the last meltdown and I thought we were the sick man of SL!

Bradford Bulls sad, sorry state....... www1.skysports.com/rugby-league/ ... um=twitter and 49 years since the last meltdown and I thought we were the sick man of SL!

It looks like we are victims or circumstance this time -

The RFL who bought the ground demanded all outstanding monies owed to them are paid immediately - and not over a period of time as previously agreed

Which was the exact same amount as they bought the ground for

and RBS has seriously cut/withdrawn their overdraft facility

The bottom line is they don't have any cash flow due to this which has put them in the position they are now in

On the up-side, if they have points deducted for going into administration that probably means we will not finish last this year.........every cloud and all that

And if we have to vote on it, we can return the favour of Chris Caisley and vote them out ! What goes around comes around .................

I hope we are bigger than that, but it is good to remind them of their previous position. I wonder what Luke Gale thinks of going to a bigger club now?

Vote them out.

Get rid of the Yorkshire swines.

Hoping they have a knight in shining armour to save them, SL will be worse off without a Bulls team.

Is full-pro RL actually sustainable long-term? The clubs would be better off semi-pro.

I feel sorry for the Bradford fans but I don't like the Bradford club because of their lack of support for us. (and they nicked The Worlord and turned him into a championship player

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The RFL licensing system is a complete farce and the Bulls spent money on players for 2012 that would have been better spent on the Bulls surviving as a going concern.

I wonder what this would mean for the game on the road. Week off if there were no Bulls presumably?

Points deuctions only take affect if the club go into administration (i believe).

I suspect they will find a saviour somehow, but its a terrible mess. the vast majority, if not all, RL Clubs are running on empty, but that also applies to most foot ball clubs if you take out the Man Uniteds. We shouldnt wish for any club to be thrown out or for points deductions to save our baco. i for one hope they come out of this, a great old club and the last ground we played a play-off game on!

Although my first (knee jerk) reaction was 'up yours Chris Caisley!',I have to agree with what you say about Bradford - I'd forgotten Odsal was where we last appeared in a playoff game, seems like a lifetime ago!

What will the RFL do with the bomb crater that is Odsel when there is no team playing on or in it?

That's the main conclusion of this affair. And if Bradford are in trouble, then it isn't a terribly big stretch to imagine us, Castleford, Salford and Wakefield being not far off similar.

One of the main tenets of the Franchising system was that it was supposed to ensure financial stability of clubs. Yet more evidence that the RFL is completely clueless when it comes to running the game.

It would be far more interesting to see an income/expenditure league table. I think that would be more prescient. A crumb of comfort is that the Aviva premiership sides are in even more debt, but they do have owners with deeper pockets.

Sell it to Tesco?

How fast would these clubs have gone under without a SC constraint and Sky money?

How when they get £25 Million sponsorship from Aviva compared to our 100 painted wagons, which is still so difficult to see however many motorway journeys you make!

They have much bigger squads and a competitive player market that makes ours look like chickenfeed and gates no much bigger than our best.

I'd also be approving of voting them out. Feel sorry for their supporters but not their club.

Maybe DH should put his money into bailing out the Bulls? He'd have some chances of getting a return on his investment there.

If DH had wanted to buy another club, he could have got his home town club, Swinton for half a crown!

Not in the days when they had the likes of John Stopford playing, he couldn't.

Hate to see any club having these sort of problems
And would hope that we would show our selves as bigger and better than them if it came to a vote, it should not be about getting our own back.
Good luck to Bradfurt there is too much history there for em to be allowed to go to the wall