Just been on Look North,Sutcliffe written bid officially handed in.

Can i put forward a question to the folks from other clubs suggesting we simply sell players to fund the August wage bill?

Pure speculation but lets say Hull FC offer £10k for Whitehead, Wire offer £15k for Bateman, Wigan offer £10k for Kearney and Leeds £5k for l'Estrange. On the basis Wakey appeared to get £5k per player when they were in a similar sitution to us but much earlier in the season compared to where we are now, these figures dont appear unreasonable. Also include the fact the most squads of teams above wont have much money under cap left (probably!), s/l deadline for signings seems to have passed and in a few weeks they can probably get most of above for nowt they dont need to be raiding benefactors piggy banks to make massive bids

If this did happen our reported £160k monthly wage bill would drop by say £20k (?) as I think Whitehead & Bateman are still on their original contracts so not massive salaries this would give us £40k liquid cash to cover wage bill now in region of £140k. Any suggestions from all the fans saying just sell players to cover wage bill, please address directly to Mr Administrator, c/o Odsal Stadium, Bradford as I am sure he would benefit from your expertise

Dunno, neither do you, speculation pointless.


Of course it's unusual - unique even - though the bit about "without reference" is plain wrong - neither the Bulls, nor the RFL, are run by committee, consulting member clubs or consulting shareholders would simply not be the way it works.


Well yes, but just be sure you aren't blaming the previous management for that, liabilities and income going forward is in the hands of the incoming management, if they couldn't think of a viable plan then fair enough but starting pretty much from scratch, that's down to them.

I tend to think slightly different, I've no doubt that the basic premise (they couldn't figure a way to make the numbers work) is right; but IMHO the numbers could be made to work for a new owner who wasn't looking to make a pile of money, but no investor who wanted to make a reasonable return on investment would invest.


In your opinion, but with respect you don't know. You don't have the details of what went on with the RFL or how it worked (no-one does).

And the point you miss is that I'll grant the situation is much worse now than then, but teh situation is NOT much worse than the day before we went into administration. It was better, because we had done a deal with the RFL that had helped keep us going. Hood didn't put us into administration. You think we would have gone tits anyway, but I'd have rather taken our chances with the old Board and whatever potential 'investors' they were talking to, than what actually happened.

Would that have been any better? We can't ever know. But it couldn't have been worse.


I have no idea what the RFL did. For all we know maybe they did this. But any view on the club from accountants is whatever the person briefing and paying them told them they want it to be.


Maybe they do, maybe they don't, unless the full details ever emerge we won't ever know (like much of the stuff that has gone on). It would be fascinating to have chapter and verse but in terms of point, I don't think there is one.

This.

Also some of said people need a refresher on role and responsibilities of an administrator, as many appear to be confused to near-Olympic standard.

Great post except you probably overstated the amounts we'd get at this point

And, in answer to some other criticisms, whilst I don't know what Maislebugs did or said when he wrote to Peter Hood, I PERSONALLY posted on this site a request for fans to come together and make a protest two years ago when it became obvious that the management were allowing the club to drift into lower crowds, less sponsorship thus (as I sadly predicted) creating a downward spiral of events into oblivion. I suggested a sit-down protest - Warrington style - and all I got was a tirade of responses telling me that I didn't understand that really it was Caisley and Noble to blame, not Hood and McNamara. Mmmm. Shows how much I knew (despite a lifetime in management!). The real tragedy is that none of it helps us now and we are where we are - but some day we need some answers.

It's an excellent effort mate - though if anyone wants to have a sweep on the time of the next post from a fan of another club telling us to sell players, I'll go for, ooohh..just turned nine o'clock.

Has it been confirmed anywhere that they only wanted to know if it was just for this licence period?

So it is stated further up that ABC have put in a THIRD bid. Do you really want someone in charge who has tried it on twice already. Do they really love the club as much as that. They certainly seem desperate to get into Odsall

It's called negotiation.

Perhaps they are 'desperate' to save the club and build it up again

The truth is we don't know anything about the motivations of ABC - heck, we don't even know who they are