If this farce goes ahead the RFL are going to use the supposed weakness and failings of Championship Clubs as the reason for the Bulls retaining their licence

The Bulls should be judged against their own actions and failings to decide if they remain a SL club

Then and only then , if they lose that licence should it be considered who will replace them

It is 2 seperate issues, but once again Mr Wood is not willing to make the deision he is highly paid to do

It is us, Fax,Fev and Leigh who are going to be blamed for the Bulls reaining their place

Once again we are being used

I can't wait Mr Bug!

Can't wait for Mr Wood to do his press conference. Point out Halifax's failings. We then point out the reason our club is where it is and has the failings is because of him! It will be like him reading his CV out on tv! Our current board are a million miles removed from him!

Nigel Wood incompetent - just ask a Fax fan!

Does he deserve his job - just ask an RL fan!

For what it's worth, I think the RFL will see sense, not do a "mini" licencing round, in order to avoid leaving themselves wide open, and just leave Bradford in SL. Back slaps all round

Not forgetting Mr Khan's reported 6 Million pound investement into Odsal

Does anybody seriously think the RFL are willing to risk losing that , to put one of us into SL ?

We are being ' set up '

Under the 'rules' if you are not in SL the you can't apply for 3 years if you have been insolvent etc. As the Bulls will be a new co. that probably won't apply to them, OR is they are classed as the same club and in SL then it won't apply to them either.
Win, win for Bulls, can't see an issue with it really.

Starbug,

You are so spot on

However what choice do Fax/Leigh/Fev/Sheffield have but to apply though? Since if they don't all it can do is harm any application in 2014, when the next set of licences come round. Unless all these clubs all turn round and say NO - not applying then the ones that don't will potentially be at a disadvantage in 2 years time, and therefore they all will do the bidding that SL want and as you say "justify" their decision to keep Northern in SL.

Unfortunately every club is in it for themselves (even at our level, where we have Fev fans belittling Fax, Fax fans belittling Leigh and Leigh fans belittling Fev, etc. ). When the reality is for all our clubs to survive and prosper we should all be pulling together in the same direction trying to help each other. For example if all the championship clubs went on mass to a single clothing manufaturer for replica kits to sell I wonder how much better a deal we could get with the combined barganing rather than doing it a individual clubs?

Quote: FevGrinder "Starbug, You are so spot on We've put out a (slightly cynical!) statement saying we're not getting involved. www.sheffieldeagles.com/index.ph ... Itemid=490 For a start there would be no point because we're simply not ready (playing staff, crowd size, overall infastructure), work has been going into launching a credible bid for the 2015 round of licenses since the day we qualified for the grand final last season, and the club feels that launching one now would be impractical towards the bid for the next full round of licensing. If Fax/Fev/Leigh did bid to play in SL next season I'd back them, but there's no way they're going to get rid of Bradford, imho.

Quote: FevGrinder "Starbug, You are so spot on We've put out a (slightly cynical!) statement saying we're not getting involved. www.sheffieldeagles.com/index.ph ... Itemid=490 For a start there would be no point because we're simply not ready (playing staff, crowd size, overall infastructure), work has been going into launching a credible bid for the 2015 round of licenses since the day we qualified for the grand final last season, and the club feels that launching one now would be impractical towards the bid for the next full round of licensing. If Fax/Fev/Leigh did bid to play in SL next season I'd back them, but there's no way they're going to get rid of Bradford, imho.

All your chairman has done there is show he isnt upto to speed with things, our stadium is being renovated as we speak and will be fit for purpose by the start of next season with over 5k covered seats and a 9k capacity, a maximum size pitch and my m8 has today measured up for some purpose built vip units complete with kitchen equipment. Its our ground and all the proseeds from food and drink will be ours. I would say the stadium that your chairman says will keep us out is our main assett. he really should keep up

I had my house measured up for a conservatory about 3 years ago. I still haven't had one built.

Thought the min capacity had to be 12k?

My point being he shouldnt have passed comment. It was tactless, wether he is right or not is irrelivant

See what the RFL have done?

Divide and conquer