thats what i was thinking, which other club could keel over when this season draws to a close and gates receipts stop?

None,
In Super League apparently,
But hey in the championship?
Who cares?
Apart from us?

Well a line has most definatley been drawn in the sand, and none of us can expect to be invited over it, so what to do about it? , well apparently the Championship chairmen now have a ' pre ' meeting before the council or APC meetings start, but are they seriously going to all agree to a united course of action?

No chance

It requires all clubs to state they will not be submitting an application to enter SL until the governing body start to apply rules and attitudes equally to all

But they wont, partly because the governing body ( Mr Wood ) is a vindictive organisation, that will take any dissent personally, and dish out retribution personally as well

RL is becoming an absolute joke

Think you're right there Mr Bug, my old mate.

The Championship chairmen are in, in my opinion, a strong position. Anyone outside of Super League can see how this is panning out and I'm sure they can gain a lot of sympathy whilst applying pressure on the RFL, as well as exposing the sport for what it is.

Having said that, it's only a strong position if they use it well. I certainly don't think they would all vote to not apply for SL, even though they saw Fax being used last time to make the inevitable decision seem more exciting and unpredictable only to stick the boot when their inadequacies were shoved in their face!

What would the average Fax, Fev or Leigh fan think if their board didn't apply for SL - on the surface a serious lack of ambition.

Glad I'm not a chairman! What would you do Mr Bug?

Its not an easy thing to do freddie, but it is a time for realism, can any of us honestly say we are up to the challenge of SL as it currently is? And as ' honorable ' men, do we want to sit at the same table as the ' pond life ' that inhabit SL?

I'd tell them to shove it, but it needs them all to do it, and we know they wont, thats one of the reasons I'm no longer a director of a RL club

I've been thinking. Does anyone know who you could appeal to for an investigation into the Bradford Fiasco?

I just have a strong feeling that some of this is illegal. I may be wrong but the sale of the Odsal lease to the RFL a short time before going into Administration to take their major asset out of reach seems a bit dodgy to me.

Also, as the Administrators primary function as I see it is to pay it's creditors, how did they get away with not releasing a single player throughout the entire debacle?

Another thing, HMRC seem to have been very patient in waiting for their money which is unusual.

The HMRC are quiet cos the Bulls tax bill will already have been paid!

Come on, keep up. They are the beacon of super league clubs, the one we must all aspire to, and must be saved at all costs!

The administrator must belong to some professional body.

Complain to them.

Good luck with that.

The whole bloody thing stinks, Going as far back as the awarding of a Grade B License to a club on the edge of melt down. Ever since IMHO we have been fed lie after lie. I am now convinced that after after Widnes were given their Golden Ticket and we were asked to apply again with the other SUPA DUPA League clubs as the likes of Wood Lewis and Rimmer knew they could loose their precious Dulls,

Am in agreement with all the people who are hacked off but its gone on so long now and we all knew what the outcome was going to be, I am just drawing a line under the whole RFL/Bulls/Franchise fiasco-let them make their bed and then lie in it!

I would just like to say I feel sorry for all the fans of the championship,I believe that it is a good old boys club and they make up rules as they go, I would also agree with Fax Machine that we need to have a Independant investigation of the Bradford Bulls and the RFL . I have always said things like salary cap for instance is a farce.We have teams in our game that are bringing in top rate players left right and but not violating the salary cap.We have all heard about the loop holes to get around it,player brought in for a small amount of money and then his wife or partner lands a job with the club for massive amount of money.How many of us average people can land jobs like this with no qualifications and it goes on and on.

The Administrator was clearly in bed with Ken Bates when Leeds United went into admin, the machinations that went on to ensure that Ken Bates were the preferred bid was more than a bit dodgy, ie Yorkshire Radio being owed lumps of money by Leeds United, to ensure that his offer was accepted by the required number of creditors.

The point is, if he got away with that when there were better bids for the creditors on the table, then Bradford and the administrator etc will easily get away with this.

I bought a season ticket this year knowing that I wouldn´t get to many games, I´ve made four, I did it to stick two fingers upto SL and to thank the club for backing KH last season.

I intend to buy another this season, hopefully I´ll get to a lot more games as well, i´m planning on moving back into the area.

We really are wasting our time. Rovers put a team in the U18s league and fund it ourselves, fools like me and rotherham fev fattie go to functions and spend wads to help fund the team. they do very well also in the league. yet the other week we were due to face Huddersfield a club that gets there U18s paid for to the tune of 100k, yet they cancelled the game unable to raise a team. Its outragous are the RFL getting value for money? the game stinks to high heaven, if every one of those self styled elite went bust i would be very happy

RFL terms of engagement in the SL franchise system in my view = Sport for only those who they the RFL decide, when they decide and if they decide it is entirely on their terms what they decide, or decide to change those terms, if they have previously decided something which now doesnt suit them, they will just decide.!!!!

Then use the words..." due dilligence has decided after a closely contested process that nobody from the Championship can join us because WE are the only ones who can DECIDE" (but we reserve the right to change our mind in case one of the clubs we are not too bothered about go bust ie Castleford)

Thats why we are such a visionary, progressive,vibrant,vastly improving, all inclusive National sport attracting billions in funding, operating with openess and transparancy promoting the goverment ethos of sport for all.................NOT