rlhttps://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/2424577rl

Here we go again...

HMRC are doing the usual and starting legal proceedings before giving someone a telephone call - well, I hope that's all it is....

www.bradfordbulls.co.uk/news/pos ... -statement

www.bradfordbulls.co.uk/news/pos ... -statement

Hmmm. More questions than answers.

FFS.

Even if this was a mistake (which I doubt), it is pretty lousy timing and will only set the rumour mill in action.

How hard is it to pay your crown debts on time, seriously? Nothing you owe HMRC should ever come as a surprise - you know the tax rates and due dates well in advance of when monies fall due. For the revenue to get to the stage where they are issuing winding up petitions, the liability must be quite far overdue.

This sort of thing only seems to happen to clubs that have either no money or who are really disorganised or both. Whatever the reason it doesn't reflect well at all.

And rumours that green is looking to sell too? Jeez that million pound game was all or bust wasn't it.

Willing to give the current lot the benefit of the doubt for now but it is unsettling. We had somebody on here claiming we'd had advances of central funding recently, is this a case of no smoke without fire?

Malicious rumours. Green in it for the long haul. Not sure whether his wife will sell her 45% though.

Even taking clubs explanation at face value and it is a mistake, yet again it's terrible timing at start of season ticket push. Combined with ferres' articles can see our total being significantly lower this year. I'll be holding on while until things settle down before renewing ours for sure.

Well, before Green took over we had several groups claiming they were buying or had bought the club. No doubt they set up their holding companies for that very reason. It could just be an oversight and it's one of THESE holding companies that has caused the issue

Yep, this is possibly the club’s hardest season ticket sell in our recent past – and that’s saying something considering the past 5 years. Having been through the system once, the “adventure” of 2nd tier rugby is wearing off, and people have quickly become aware that the 8s are the main act and the regular season is a very long warm up. Of course you’ve got to be in it to win it, but I’ve got a feeling that there will be less people willing to sit through the entirety of the warm up in 2016 and onwards.

Like you say, reports like this today don’t help. I too am willing to give the current lot the benefit of the doubt (is it only Mick Gledhill saying Green is looking to sell, or is it anyone else?) – but the current incumbents really are in the last chance saloon with stuff like this, not entirely by their own doing I admit, but such is life when you take on a damaged club. I wouldn’t blame people having been through the past few years, seeing a few more headlines like this and packing it in long term. The club cannot take the board deceiving the fans again in such a short period of time, it would be very damaging.

I know that sounds hyperbolic/worst case scenarios and it may or may not be nothing but some serious firefighting is needed by the club over this, however innocuous it may be as I think a lot of fans are understandably scarred from our previous adventures with the tax office – and beyond.

Knowing the way HMRC work it would not surprise me if they have cocked up.