From the outside it could appear the Bulls have been playing the system for a few years now, the damage it does to the fan base and local businesses, all of who will have put money in and seen the club go through this process time and time again, cannot be underestimated.

I say this everytime, but they still haven't bottomed out or realised the situation they are in, as soon as they get the slate wiped clean, they'll go out and pump money into players based on an optimistic financial model thinking they are only a hot streak away from 10k crowds and return a SL.
It'll be Huddersfield in a few years time.

Oh how i miss The Tri Nations, GB, NZ and Aus. With Adminsitration an annual news headline and French, Scottish, Welsh and Irish teams all being propped up by a game with no money in it, i expect more heartache for Fans and less interest outside of the diehards.

P.s Dane owes us nowt, thanks for all the hard work and effort, i honestly thought he would make the Legends board in time, some of these young lads need to come through or we are looking at own goal after own goal in the last 12 months or so. I hope they know what they are doing. Nobodies bigger than the Club i accept, but i cant help feeling they have let Dane down, he gave us everything he had. We need more Danes, not 10% cuts.

To be fair, the 10% pay cut has been reported as being transferred to the bonus for making the top 4. When put that way, it doesn't sound quite as bad for the players.

Purely hypothetical numbers, but let's say a player is on £20k, with a £4k bonus for making the top 4. The new deal is £18k, but with a £6k bonus for making the top 4. Makes more sense to me when looked at in that way, with a bigger incentive to get into the middle-8's - at which point everyone wins.

It doesn't sound so bad when put like that, agreed, but what faith could Dane have that his team mates would get us in the top 4, based on last season, not a lot of faith i would guess, and he doesn't have that many years left playing.

Its not only me that surely noticed Dane and Adam were the only forwards that looked like denting the opposition last season, id sooner have kept them both and released someone else, im not privy to the numbers, but the club almost seem apologetic, having said that id rather be in our shoes than the Bulls, we just cannot afford another year of screw ups and bad decisions, i hope they know what they are doing.

This was a tough call, it clearly was a choice on both sides, i sincerely hope Richard can improve the players and not lose our best young hopes to SL, or we're in a pickle... in the words of Star Treks Bones 'if you're gonna ride in the Kentucky Derby, you don't leave your prize stallion in the Stable'

This has scared me..... ill say it again, i hope they know what they're doing.

3 times in 4 years and still nothing changes. They could have gone PT. But the Club and its Fans think they are better than that. Many Bull Fans mocked us When we went in to Administration or made 10% cut on wages etc. That club should t be in the Championship. They be long in Championship 1. They are a disgrace of a club. BIG iconic club was over 10 years ago.

Yep, and that's what's the concern. Dane clearly wasn't confident we could make the top 4 (albeit his move is perhaps not just about money - I understand he lives quite close to the Batley ground, and of course he did come from them to us). Top man, and gutted he's gone (going).

Good points JTBF and I agree with you. Dane cleans windows and rugby is a short career, he needs to look after himself and his family.

I am with you on hoping that the board know what they are doing. In my opinion they didn't seem to do last year, which really worries me for this season.

Sadly not for fans

Just announced on Love Rugby league that the Bulls have been expelled from The Rugby football league, a sad day for genuine fans

I think there will be a few twists and turns between now and the end of the year with this subject.

It is a sad day. Despite what a lot of people think about the Bulls, they are a true RL team with a lot of history.

Ejaculated from The RFL today....apparently. Magic Rock Tap, Ringmaster 3.9% Mmm!

They should be relegated but I hope they arn't, it would destroy them(not that its great at the moment) but they are one of very few teams in this league where you actually get at atmosphere at the game and I think there will be a few club chairman hoping they stay as well just for that reason.

We all know how this story turns out. Debts gone. New owner. Full time squad - better than ours. All by the 1st February.

Am not so sure this time. Get the feeling we may be heading to Toronto sooner that we think. Can see Bradford being in League 1 for a season.