They won't be out of pocket Carter, Davy and Hudgell are going to save the day! Balloons the lot of them....

There was a link kicking around which showed the Rfl had taken a loan out recently on the properties they owned, which presumably would include the Odsal head lease, although they had recently downgraded it to £750k value in their accounts

They took a loan out on the 25th May 2018. Can be seen on companies house but it won't give you a figure of loan.

In the paperwork it says any leasehold's they have are used as part of the loan agreement, I wonder with them losing income from Odsal this may affect things.

The only way it will affect it is if they can't pay it.

If Chalmers couldn't do sums, he would lose half a million a year paying for Odsal rent and maintenance costs, until the club went tits again.

I fail to see how you, the RFL, or anybody, could think he had any rational choice but to refuse to sign a new lease, unless it was on terms that made financial sense.

Of course the decision may have (and already has had) other consequences - that's the thing with decisions - but if Bradford MDC and the RFL had put forward a new lease arrangement that the Bulls could afford, then they wouldn't have to move.

Unless you can explain how anyone would rationally sign a new lease that was the equivalent to signing the next death warrant ? Would YOU?

And another thing: as a result of their intransigence, and bluff-calling, the RFL now have no tenant paying rent, and are now responsible for the £400,000 maintenance costs of Odsal. In full.

I do hope they honour their self-imposed obligations to keep Odsal from the vultures and continue to shell out the cash preserve the iconic stadium for the wider game, as they professed to be doing when they stepped in. Or did they mean, we will be the landlord, take a load of rent, and make the Bulls pay to preserve the iconic stadium for the wider game?

I'm expecting some kind of update from the club today.
Silence will only convince me further that we're about to go pop again.

Just wondering how you would view his credibility if he'd signed a new lease committing the club to paying half a million a year in rent and maintenance for the foreseeable?

AC doesn't strike me as the sort that will bite his tongue if he feels something has been said or done that is unjust. So the fact that his pre RFL statement article is so far the only word we've had is odd, and I'm sure we'd all like some urgent clarifications from him.

For the avoidance of doubt, he's never had any in my book, I was being generous in my previous post.

Since you've asked the question, it would just make him as stupid as our previous owners who presumably agreed to the same.