The administrator wouldn't sell players because they were the only assets the Bulls had. The RFL buying Odsal meant any potential buyer would be buying the `team` only. We didnt own anything.

`The Bulls` didnt hang on and make staff redundant. This was done by the administrator, Who was independent. He did this because otherwise we would have been liquidated and it bought time to find a buyer.

Siddlow was linked to Bradford months ago & Salford didnt want him.

Bradford fans / some other fans did raise a large amount of money doing various activities and pledging which is was Salford are attempting to do at the moment. Most fans would do this for their club & I'll certainly by pledging to help Salford myself.

The RFL did put on transport to matches at the back end of the season and advance sky money ( already due to the club in 2012) to help pay wages. But the money was already Bradfords so to speak it was just released sooner & was done IMO to ensure fixtures went ahead. As Bradfords administration was mid season for them to be liquidated would have caused a headache for the RFL.

People are moaning about the help Bradford received which is understandable if the RFL dont help other clubs in the same way. However, both situations are completely different.

Bradfords new owner has taken a huge risk because he has no assets other than the players/staff & for the next two seasons to stay in SL he wont be paid SKY money of over £1,000,000 that will be given out to the other clubs in the league over the next two years.

So although people are asking for the RFL to step in to help Salford, I would have preferred Bradford not to have had the help of the RFL and for them to have sold the club with Odsal intact earlier in 2012. The new owners wouldnt have been penalised then and would have had something for their money ( Odsal )

In the spirit of the great British pantomime tradition......oh no you weren't!!
You were given money out of last years and this years pot, this was agreed by the SL chairmen and hence why you have to put the money back in it.

It's not really about who's admin was better, (they both boil down to bad management) but the Bulls and RL hierarchy collusion is all too murky i just don't understand why the Bulls didn't sell a player when they seem to have had bids?
Didn't Obst go to Hull while Glover was been proved fit and proper, or am i mis-remebering?

IIRC, both Obst and Ferguson were both sold at the last minute to raise funds for the administrator, whilst you guys got a sub from the RFL


The other issue was that at the time we looked doomed for the Championship, therefore players were probably quite happy to have a get out, whereas you guys were given a 3 year, grade B licence, even though your club was in financial strife.

Its easy to see why some folk may be bitter

The thing with the RFL in all this is that there hands appear to be clean until scrutinised further.
There's the licence process overseen by experts making sure that clubs are worthy of a licence and running the off field business well. They failed to note that in the Bulls case they were losing £1.1m per year, that's a big miss or a big covering up of something that perhaps the RFL didn't want the public to know, another club in a financial mess following us and Crusaders but this time a former giant and perhaps the club that typified the SL era more than any other.
Then there's the whole Odsal-gate scam, covered up by the RFL in collusion with the then BoD of the club to further hide the truth.
The administration itself was nothing less than a shambles, and at every turn the club and the playing squad was protected while non playing staff were made redundant and monies that could be generated for creditors via the sale of players never happened.
In all this the RFL have always distanced themselves from the actual facts, blamed or hid behind another body or tried to cover up the whole fiasco.
And still some Bulls fans feel let down and need to preach!!
I give up!!

We're doing allright arn't we. Cant be bad.