No Reprieve

Quote: Fr13daY "Its all gone a little conspiracy crazy on here. I genuinely don't really believe any of it, as with the application of Occam's razor we are where we are because
Indeed. The mystery remains, though, as to why, from our new owners' point of view, they would be willing to do so. We've watched them all season, and had seen a total collapse of playing standards, and a relegation so rapid, it will surely never be repeated.

I still think relegation wasn't inevitable, but we sat on our hands, and paid the heavy price. This price was obvious. Why would the new owners so meekly resign s and themselves to this miserable fate/

This I still do not get.

Quote: Fr13daY "* Would any multimillionaire set up someone else to buy a club when he could have just got his wife to front it instead '"

No.

Quote: Fr13daY "If any millionaire HAD secretly bought the club, I'm sure we wouldn't be where we are now. What good is another season wasted in an even lower league; where is the return on that? would it be worth crippling the support for some great plan? '"

Exactly.

Quote: Fr13daY "Magically returning the Bulls to Superleague in some great restructuring in 2 years time would cause uproar, and result in many supporters from other teams turning their back on the game in disgust. Despite everyone knowing we are the RFLs favourites.'"

I think most would now agree that after we committed hari kari, our new version was absolutely stuffed by the RFL. But yes, it would be impossible to parachute a Bulls team into SL, for the reasons you state, and also because you might as well parachute an Under-12s team in.

Quote: Fr13daY "The talk about a new stadium, while nice, hasn't been mentioned by anyone of note; including the RFL, Bradford Bulls, Bradford Council or certain racehorse owners, meaning that it either isn't true or it's not going to happen in the next few years. Bradford council will have to replace Dunnie swimming facilities eventually, but there would be uproar in Bradford if they go all in with the Bulls with our financial record. And this stuff takes years to hammer out as well. '"

I'm sure something is afoot, I've heard almost the same thing from 3 separate independent sources now, but yes, it would take years for anything to actually happen, and not a penny of the something comes to Bulls or pays for even a pair of boots.

Quote: Fr13daY "This is the RFL. Their incompetent ineptitude astonishes still. They have sat around and watched the sport wither and die, both in participation and attendances. Lower league clubs are in huge financial difficulties, they constantly blow the chance to make the game more popular, they gave away sponsorship to a truck company for free, they sold the TV rights to a company without bartering them up (and by doing this actually reduced the amount of games people can watch!) they make up and change rules to the competition as they see fit. Do you think they are capable of such a magnificent, Machiavellian scheme? Honestly? '"

I'm sure that in doing what they did with ChaLow they must have had their own reasons. Fscked if I know what those reasons were.

Would have loved to be a fly on the RFL boardroom wall on whatever day the topic of the Bulls' relegation came up.