How can there ever be a future credible round of franchise applications.
This is utterley astonishing and while the sentiments, to save a pro rugby league club, may be worthy, what sort of precident does this set ??

What an absolute disgrace and greggs chief pie tester should be asked to resign for coming up with such a disgraceful and biased idea.Also if AG and the chairmen of other small clubs(Salford,Cas)etc have agreed to this I hope they have guarantees that until the Bulls are sold on that they are guaranteed SL status for as long as it takes whether it be 1 week or 10 years.How can we have so much pressure about the ground yet this is allowed to happen?

No arguments from me.





If you look at it from a purely business perspective. As far as I can see this is a measure until the end of the season to stop us from going bust before then and make sure the fixtures are played. I'm more inclined to believe that this cements our position out of SL for next year tbh. I certainly don't see clubs unanimously agreeing to a different set of rules for one club than themselves whilst financing by proxy that very same situation. They might be stupid, but that stupid? Really?

Where did I say it was?

I still await the first Bradford fan coming on here gloating, as they did a few months ago when the evil empire bought the lease after failing to recoup a penny piece from their £700k loan.

I don't get why the other clubs have agreed to it? Whats in it for them? As i've said the RFL need to clarify the detail on this pretty damn quick because right now it just looks like favouritism without all the relevent info. If its to get them through to the end of september then sell on or liquidate then ok. But long term it surely isn't an option.

(don't expect an answer, rhetorical questions)


is the new club now "skint", as the governing body has paid them up front, so where is the rest of the money coming from?

probably expecting them to get there 6 points back as the owners decide it was unfair.

more than full cap to be spent next year, as the owners will not penalise themselves

does andrew glover now own 2 teams?

etc etc etc.

It was a very good rebuttal of a point that I made. I seem to have completely imagined the point I was rebutting. I'm doing that a lot these days.

Incredible. Gob smacked.
Is this even legal? A ruling body owning a member club?
The details should be interesting.
How much more of the sport's money is being gambled away?

This is great news in terms of, if Guilfoyle accepts, it buys some time and helps them to see out the season. The press release implies that the club would then be sold onto a suitable buyer.

There is no statement what so ever about the future league for the club. Whether it be Super League or lower is not indicated.

I would imagine that if SL did buy the Bulls they would put in an independent CEO who could oversee any player trades etc. Then once back in independent ownership it is back to normal. If, it is a short term solution then great.

I appreciate so people think what about us? We had two potential buyers lined up and Glover completed in relatively quick time without conditions. Bradford has gone on for a long time and they will be bust in a week or two without a credible buyer.

All the questions on fair treatment will have been discussed at Red Hall yesterday and the clubs must be happy with the answers.

Posters above are correct though in this setting a dangerous precedent. With what happened to Blackpool, this can be seen as a disgrace. I'm sure Blackpool's debts were far from on the same scale as Bradford's.

I do wonder though, if all the other Super League clubs are existing creditors of Bradford then they can't afford for Bradford to go bust?

Either way, if a credible new owner (post Super League ownership) comes to light and is deemed fair then they can apply for a licence to be assessed on strong criteria. Otherwise, Championship rugby and build again.

Sigh, of course it is.

In other news Nigel Wood is to become the face of Slimming World.

I think we need a statement from our club about this. Did the RFL bully the clubs into this decision

Disgraceful in my opinion the double standards shown

Rugby League is fast becoming the laughing stock of sport, a shambles of a game run by incompetant fools. At this rate the proffessional game will be lucky to last another 10 years.

The MLB have done it twice recently (Texas & LA Dodgers) but that league doesn't have the ridiculous kick teams out for not having a pretty stadium rule every 3 years, so it's totally different, not to mention in a different country.

What I want to know is where has the money come from? If ABC offered 5m, surely SLE would have to match that at least, so where has that come from?



Would it surprise anyone? They've done it before.

It’s called paranoia, and hardly surprising after the year you’ve had

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I cant quite understand why this has been done, even if it ends up being some kind of stop gap until the end of the season.
Why has there been so much determined effort to save Bradford ?
Yes they are a "big" club who prospered in the early days of SL and yes, they have a 10000 strong fanbase but, is this deal about protecting a club, an iconic ground, completing a seasons fixtures (without the embarrassment of wiping out a teams results, or is this to protect the RFL's investment in a lease for a hole in the ground.
This is mind-blowing and my head is hurting just trying to reconcile what has been agreed.

All these clubs and a few more that are not around ,or not now around at top level,all chipped in to help resurrect this cinderella club that is most famous for going bust.Just look at the player Trinity let them have in 1964 Ian Brooke for one springs to mind.I just dont know how the keep getting away with it

An utter disgrace.
No club is bigger than the game,
How can any other club be now left to fend for themselves if they are in difficulty?
Are Salford the next club to be purchased ?
Complete shambles.

I'd love to have been a fly on the wall at that Red Hall meeting, when Big Nige made the SL chairmen an offer they couldn't refuse...

renamed bradford blue eyed boys.if our cheif exec voted to keep them in he needs his head looking at

Hold on a second, if the RFL have promised us a Super League license for the next 10000 years in exchange for this then I'd take it!

In all seriousness, this is bizarre.

Absolute disgrace and shows what a corrupt set up the RFL and SL are. Is it now an open offer to clubs to spend well above and beyond their means in search of silverware cos depending who you are they will bail you out.

Wouldn't happen to the likes of Wakefield, Cas, Huddersfield, Salford or Widnes to name a few.

Sick to back teeth of the game now, bent from top to bottom!!

Even as a Leeds fan having had our fair share of success over recent years I have to say my love for the game is certainly being tested.

The RFL and SL is an utter shambles

yep. it's impossible to believe that conditions weren't set that favour the existing teams in SL isn't it?

Perhaps for Trinity and Cas a bit of grace regarding the realisation of their respective stadiums's

Why not sell some players like we had to , that would get I some time too