BTW a CCJ unless paid within 14 days remains on the record for six years paid or unpaid. The fact that the three creditors do not appear to have taken visible enforcement action may be that AC agreed instalment plans with them, which is very common. sort of individual CVAs. And as I said before, if a debtor comes to me saying that they had hit a bit of a sticky patch but were doing xyz to get the funds in ( eg sell a few properties - OK: but not that they were helping a Nigerian businessman get the $1Bn proceeds of his uncles will out of Nigeria via OneCoin) and could payment be made according to a schedule, it is always in my businesses best interests to get as much back voluntarily rather than nothing after expensive legal costs etc. If they have always paid on time in the past, then that helps to validate their story. If the first instalment is missed, then you put the boot in. Which so far has been absent in the Bulls case.

Quote Blotto="Blotto"Perhaps Sport England should be the ones to start an investigation into the RFL https://www.totalrl.com/calls-growing-f ... ium-lease/'" NRL grand final day there was a guy turned up to our club to talk about monies the RFL have held back from amateur clubs once a junior has made a first team appearance. He went on to say it's in sport England best interest to protect odsal and rugby in bradford. God knows what that meant but seemed to be some legs in it

Quote Blotto="Blotto"Perhaps Sport England should be the ones to start an investigation into the RFL https://www.totalrl.com/calls-growing-f ... ium-lease/'" NRL grand final day there was a guy turned up to our club to talk about monies the RFL have held back from amateur clubs once a junior has made a first team appearance. He went on to say it's in sport England best interest to protect odsal and rugby in bradford. God knows what that meant but seemed to be some legs in it

That's odd. Why would Sport's England have an opinion either way? Intriguing.

The only connections I have are -
The RFL get a lot of funding from Sport England - millions annually. This is based on many factors, including participation (falling), development pathways (mainly academies, although the rfl sacking all their regional development officers was shortsighted here).
Bradford academy is therefore important (1/15th?) towards the funding the RFL get for the game as a whole. Another factor is governance - specifically transparency, accountability and avoiding conflicts of interest. The RFL haven't racked up a lot of bonus funding in this area recently either...
The Sports England criteria is online somewhere, I read it a couple of years ago.

the 30k plumbing bill was from when we held the head lease so maybe not quite relevent. It was an example hood used to justify the sale. A more recent example would be the 5k bill for floodlight bulbs which we certainly had to pay this year. Its always been common knowledge that club are responsible for upkeep not the RFL so not sure why 'nutjobs' trying to suggest otherwise.

Well clearly and with respect, you don't know us mate, or what we stand for. Would be interested to learn whether Chris would put bricks and mortar on the line for BB17.

After coming away from Wakefield it would surprise me if he did want to get get back into RL but it wouldn't surprise me if he was there in a guiding way while others in the consortium invested and he was paid for his services, ask him at the forum

Didn't AC say the lights were bought by a sponsor?

That's correct about the upkeep (hence the sponsor and the lights). I can remember Hood (yeah, I know..) saying that the club was still responsible for upkeep after the RFL took on the head lease and I've heard nothing different since. Though, that said, we've not hear much at all for some time.

May have been. Certainly wasn't RFL though. If they had been responsible for upkeep we would have been complaining about state odsal was getting into all the time.

I reckon what you stand for won't be worth much more than what I'd find down the back of my sofa.

Are you in any position whatsoever to challenge the takeover backed with considerable funds and able to seriously offer a more palatable solution?