Been on calander saying they're staying ft next yr is it a smaller salary cap in the champ if so would they be able to do it or would be a mixture of pro n semi pro, plz excuse a blonde question

Think salary cap is £1million. So most likely all players full time.

They'll end up spending more than they can afford. It's what Bradford do.

Can't see them retaining their top earners or top performers to be honest. Gale off to Cas? Manuokafoa to Widnes? It's an opportunity for them to re-group and re-develop their squad.

Still talking it up though:

"For the record, the original appeal against the points deduction was correct and amongst other factors, was as a result of the Rugby Football League’s policy and procedure being flawed.

"Following the hearing by the Sporting Sanction Appeal Panel, we felt the decision was legally incorrect and all the advice from our legal advisors confirmed "Regardless of who owned what and when, we are mindful of the strength of feeling in the rugby league community about us challenging the points deduction. However, we now feel it is time to move forward.

"More importantly, the board feel our supporters need closure on what has been, for them, a horrible part of the club’s history, allowing us all to focus on the future.

Like listening to a no hope heavyweight boxer pre match press conference.

Not exactly on there own there either.

Most SL teams do.

Marc Green isn't fooling anyone with his propaganda. I hope for Bradford they regroup and in a similar fashion to Castleford come back much stronger but P & R makes it increasingly hard for clubs to build as clubs and progress.

Good luck and hopefully they can support themselves

This is the bit I can't understand.
On one hand it's about the points, then on the other it's about the procedures.
If the RFL 'advised' them to go into admin, they must not have walked them through the procedure, that if you do that, you get points deducted but maybe the RFL didn't think they had to after they had been in admin about 18 months previous and obviously thought they knew the repercussions?
Is this the reason why the Bulls went into admin for 5 mins before a buyer bought them and the 'tweet' about Bradford starting on zero points was posted then removed a few hours later and the buyer pulled out?
I will probably get corrected by the people in the know but I think League Dweeb got things pretty much in order.

Sadly, Bradford are not unique then, I don't know a RL that doesn't spend more than it can afford and it's not just confined to RL either look at the state of a lot of football clubs. It's a sporting disease.

You are right but for the last 3 years clubs have had the opportunity to slowly build without the fear of relegation, unfortunately most clubs have gone for boom or bust.
Widnes are a perfect example of how the franchise system should be used and a club like ours should have done the same when we got our reprieve when Crusaders pulled out.

So I can finally breathe a sigh of relief

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If ever a club has kicked & screamed more than this I’ve yet to witness it.

Month after month of uncertainty, will they get some / all points back, won’t they? Ably assisted by certain posters fighting the clubs corner, giving false hope to the masses, over & over again (you know who you are)

It must be pretty disappointing being a Bradford fan right now, however, I would swap their plight in a heartbeat.

If someone offered me the chance to see Wakefield win multiple titles followed by relegation I would bite their hands off.

I’ve seen my club relegated on numerous occasions – I’ve never seen them win Jack

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Whoa! Hang on, last Yorkshire Cup Winners in '92!
BOOM!

Numerous occasions?

Ha yes, but it was so insignificant by then it was consigned to the dustbin of my mind. In fact the win over Fev to get into S.L was far more fulfilling, on so many levels.

I'd forgotten about the GF win over Fev.
I was there to see Josh Bostock have his finest moment!

We were relegated in 1982, 1984, 1987 and 1995.

They are the ones I can remember (only just mind)

Was '95 due to a restructure?
Could be wrong, as SL started in '96.

We were the sacraficial lambs.

I believe Hull and Doncaster were in the relegation places we and Widnes were demoted to make way for Paris and London.

There ends the most unedifying period on the super league's brief history, despite the effort of some Bulls posters to obscure the simple truth and propagate the arguments about different ownerships and so points shouldn't apply, blah, blah.

It's a shame the game loses a powerhouse, but I can't say I'll miss the Odsal or the Bulls. They've never excited me, and I just have a mental image of big blokes on muddy pitches plodding up and down.

So it wasn't about the good of the game? It wasn't about sorting out the hierarchy at the RFL? It was about points? Marc Green take a bow, you've made yourself look a right tw@!

I think he's tried to do what any Chairman would do - he's just not made a very good job of it; and it sounds a bit churlish to say, "we know we're right, but we're not going through with it."

Personally, I don't think he was ever going to chuck tens of thousands at a court case he had little hope of winning, but he's kept some fans on side by talking tough.

Bad medicine for the Bulls fans - who don't deserve this at all - but they have a good chance to regroup in the lower league and potentially, do a Widnes.

Think mc has set a blueprint on how to run a club after admin so maybe mc should charge him to av a look n charge him for the privalige of it