So if this is only till the end of the season and then Bulls will be for sale again what happens if no-one comes in to buy them then when they have built up more debt,all the players have found teams for next season because of the insecurity?RFL is making itself a laughing stock,let Bradford go out of business and restart in championship 1 and let RL be seen to do the right thing by those clubs who have lived within their means,where volunteers work their socks off week in week out and the club survives by the skin of its teeth.No-one club is ,or should be,bigger than the sport of RL and it is time for the RFL to show some balls and sort this out the right way

What gets to me most about all this is the remarks about "not letting the bulls die" and how important they are. Im heavily involved in the amateur game and spent many days last year filling form after form in to get clubmark, a lot involved the RFLs diversity and respect programmes were everyone must be treat the same. No matter what colour of skin you are or who you share your bed with, and thats fine we all agree and buy into it whole heartedly. But they them bstds DONT practice what they preach they dont reat all there member clubs the same. Some THEY see as more important, Featherstone has just as rich a history as Bradford Northern / bulls yet we wouldnt get this treatment (using Rovers as eg cos i support em, could be any champ team) they go on about how much they mean to the city, dont remember Bradford ever getting a crowd bigger than there population never mind a dozen, but we wouldnt get the treatment there getting. All i want is them to practice what they preach and treat ALL there member clubs the same

Well said

SLE will own the Bulls until they are granted a SL licence for a 3 year period , so June/July 2014

Strong and decisive leadership?
What a load of nonsense.
The strong and decisive thing to do would have been to let nature take its course and support a new company.

Well the RFL/SL have now shown the rest of the world what a shower or sh !t they are. Everyone will be laughing at how the whole thing is run.

Only problem is is that I doubt the RFL/SL actually give a sh 1t otherwise they wouldnt act as they do.

never saw this coming!

and yet people still defend the RFL?

i am more glad today than ever that

no1. i am not a 'bulls fan'

and no2. that Fax are not in SL!

SUPERleague ya having a laugh!!!!!

To be honest i actually think it is a disgrace, as Widnes where not allowed into Superleague the first time due to finances.I am behind the teams in the Championship,and i do believe even though my team are in Superleague the RFL are corrupt.Glasgow Rangers got no sympathy, and where Relegated, and now everyone looks at our Sport as a joke.

The sad thing is that there are far too many (maybe not a majority) who are willing to accept what SL and Wood are proposing. I read a thread on the Virtual Terrace and left feeling depressed and hugely frustrated. And that sadly sums up how RL has become such a joke - because there hasnt been enough opposition to the ridiculous ideas that they have come up with and implemented.

Maybe a new supporter-led organisation needs creating which will fight to put a) some sense and respect back into the game and b) represent the view of supporters. Credibility of the game is being dragged even lower - didnt think it was possible - by the buffoons at Red Hall yet it seems there is little opposition.

When I read about this I was shocked and appalled that this could happen. I then went away and thought about it, it all makes sense. I have not had a bang to the head.

One club cannot own another club that play in the same league as them. I believe, before we go into all the ramifications about creditors and the ABC group that the sports ministry would not allow it. They may not have the power to stop it but they can suggest to the RFL that if it happens then they would not make current financial aid available.

What could happen is, Super league clubs could own a club that play in a different competition to them, such as the Championship.

Bradford Bulls would then effectively be the first "Feeder club" for the super league.

Farce.

RL will never ever be a national sport due to sorry episodes like this. Beyonf belief how that can choose to save one of their favourite sons while they are seemingly happy to leave other clubs they perceive to be basket cases go to the wall. Well, aren't Bradford now a basket case?