Does anyone have any idea what happening with the Visa's of Phoenix or Toovey.

Could it be to do with the bulls been a new company?

No, it will be due to The Home Office not being in the slightest bit arrrsed to get on with it.

Think the Home Office are more bothered about kicking folk out than granting visas these days. Let's not forget we still have our new halfback awaiting clearance too.

“League Express understands that the Bulls hope to start making progress with Geoff Toovey’s work visa this week. Administrative measures that needed to be in place following Bradford’s relaunch are now thought to have been finalised, allowing them to push on with Toovey’s application for a visa.”

I thought that was likely the issue with the hold up as well as there's been no talk about overseas players joining up with the club as of yet.
With any luck we'll have our new head coach in place and ready to start work by the end of the month

Thanks for the update, fingers crossed it will be soon then.

I really hope that's correct Bullseye. After all the mayhem of the past few months I have been starting to worry that Toovey was having second thoughts - especially as in interviews I've seen with him he says "if I become head coach", suggesting it's not a done deal. Nobody could blame him having seen the reality of the situation first hand for heading back to the sunny skies of Manly, although hopefully with a couple of wins under our belts he'll be feeling that the challenge of staying up might just be achievable against all the odds.

I thought we didn't have any money?

-sorry wanted to get that in before anyone else did

Someone told me yesterday that the Visa issues were down to trouble getting a bank account. Without said bank account, you can't get Visas. I don't know much truth there is to it, as I have no knowledge on such things, but it at least would make some sense considering what Bullseye quoted from LE and the lack of ability to take credit card payments (the payments they did take were done via the RFL if my card statement is anything to go by).

According to the RFL Operational Rules, if he doesn't get a Visa, then he can go for a Mastercard, although he might have to do the team talks by Skype.

It would appear the club still don't have in-house card processing facilities as, when I went up to the office yesterday, they still had someone sitting by the counter with the computer , ready to put card sales through on line.

That's what it was when I paid for my season ticket on my card too. But it popped up as RFL on my statement. I assume the RFL are helping them out in order to allow card payments until their own stuff is sorted.

With our track record and the number of payouts the old card company will have had to honour we will be lucky to get a new card machine at all

Anyone else hoping once we are able to get visas we have a couple of new players coming? Rumours we have been looking in NZ and Oz but all gone quiet, let's hope we have a few on application stage along with Phoenix

Heard today that bank account is sorted but now the problem is to get get a vat number.
Maybe some of our legal eagles can confirm if this is feasible