Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There is NO SUCH THING as the Bradford Bulls Club in the sense that you mean, that is, some independently existing body that exists as well as the companies such as OKB or BB2014. It does not exist in isolation, it is the trading name of a business operated by some owner or other. If the owner ceases to exist so does that business.
In essence what the RFl does is give a new business/owner permission to carry on running the franchise by that name and leaving everything in relation to the comp in place as if nothing had happened. Or else not quite as if nothing had happened, if sanctions are applied.
Again, you completely misunderstand the point. Probably deliberately as it is hard to believe you could be that thick. But anyway, the simple enough fact is that the points are docked as a SANCTION AGAINST THE OWNER and obviously are docked from the league table under the name of their business. You have a mental block that keeps stopping you from getting the concept that the club and the owner are not two different things, the owner is the legal "thing" and it trades as the business/franchise/call it what you will.
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If there is no owner then there is no sanction. The club does NOT EXIST without an owner and the sanctions are applied to an owner.
What is confusing you is that the six points are a "sporting sanction". In other words they are not "real" like a money fine but are "virtual" as they only exist virtually, in the totally made up concept of a league table.
How could it be OKB who appealed? You are talking about the entirely wrong points deduction!! OK Bulls did indeed get penalty points docked. Did you forget? That was the last time. Had they not had, we would have made the playoffs.
The "appeal" would have been by the owner BB2014 because it was to them that the RFL had decided to apply the brand new sporting sanction of THESE 6 points. But they never actually were the owner.
And to prove you are wrong, consider the REASON BB2014 were docked 6 points. It was said to be because the RFL were not satisfied as to BB2014's proposals for repaying creditors.
To again prove you wrong, the RFL has said on many occasions that they will wait to see what the deal on the table is from the new owners, before deciding on sanctions.
The entity that is appealing is clearly BBNL. I have pointed out that this is ludicrous as they were not sanctioned (well, they may have been, but the sanctions against the new owners have not directly been announced to date). The "Bradford Bulls Club" cannot appeal as an entity separate and distinct from its owners, it cannot do anything at all. or if it can - then HOW? What if Mr. Green and his directors did not want to appeal, but this mythical Bradford Bulls Club did want to appeal? How would you KNOW this Bradford Bulls Club wanted to appeal? Can it talk? Who represents it? Who signs the appeal papers? How can this Bradford Bulls Club appeal, if its owner BBNL, Mr Green and his directors were against it?
If you were right, then the new owner would be irrelevant to the process. And points would just gratuitously be deducted from the team's league position, for no apparent reason. And what a futile exercise it would be, too, since if the new owner never did come along, there would BE no team. SOMEBODY has to "own" the team, whether the old owners, or the administrator, or the new owners. No owner couldn't have put it better myself, hope it shut's the idiot up now
