Quote Andy Gilder="Andy Gilder"They're exploring the legal options, which I presume would mean either the Court of Arbitration for Sport, or the High Court to challenge the legality of the decision.'"
If they did, they would need to go to C.A.S Taking Legal action against the RFL through the normal court system sees your RFL membership and as such ability to compete in RFL competitions suspended.
I think we are seeing the long slow death of RL in Bradford unfortunately. Odsal is far too big and far too expensive to bother playing in front of championship sized crowds, and unless you are Uncle Moneybags, then you certainly cant start trying to run an SL level academy, marketing or infrastructure as well as Odsal, and that before putting a team on the field. Odsal is too big and too useful a site to sit empty whilst the bulls recover. Its going as an RL venue.
Valley Parade is the only other option, but its still far too big for championship RL and would need a very very generous tenancy agreement.
Their squad is also one that is set up for SL, thats not to say it is an SL level squad, its clearly not, they are rubbish, but it is set up to be one, so will have some players on pretty good wages which are just unworkable on championship income and even their lesser players will be on better wages than championship players and it will take them a couple of seasons to rebalance the squad.
Marc Green has never pretended to be a saviour or fan desperate to get the Bulls back where they belong, he is a hard-nosed businessman who made the best decision for his investment. 1 or 2 or 3 years in the lower leagues on lower league income, with lower league crowds, lower league sponsorship etc and the associated losses there and i can't see him sticking around.