NOW it's unfair?! Was it unfair when you were cheating your way into winning silverware and we got to play you three times? Don't remember any calls of unfair back then.

love these hammerings we are giving out to bradford, used to be the other way round

Wow - The pain runs deep in this bitter town!

Wood,conroy,brooks,Mellor, bates and Roberts count towards total too. Thing to remember is there's a lot of lower numbers missing in our squad eg 6, 8 and 10 due to late departures of sammut, scruton and Carvell. Don't think loan players count on 25 man squad either.

I think the ratio is that for every sensible flying prop that comes over there's a further three flying cocks.

jools and brearley never stay long though.

at least he has got millions to pump into the club unlike certain recent owners of bradford bulls
but as FP rightly says , finishing bottom 4 years on the trot did our club no favours whatsoever, we had to go down ( eventually) and build our way back up,with a far smaller fan base than yours, which we have done quite nicely over the last 10 years.
im pretty sure given the right people in charge bradford will do that..

If the new SL format does not see any promotion or relegation after 2-3 years and SL teams just stronger and stronger than the lower league i's not sure it will remain around for long.

As I understand from what I've read, the SL cap goes up to around £2m and the Champ to a bit less than half of that. Not sure about parachute payments as, if the usual applies and SL contracts at relegated clubs are voided, then, unlike say soccer, there is no real financial need anyway as the big money contracts 'disappear', though it is vital to maintain the academy.

Again, to the best of my knowledge, Championship clubs will still be allowed just the one overseas players and I've heard nothing to suggest there will be any difference for the mini-league, though as you say, and particularly with four clubs on the search, it would be difficult to find players to bring in anyway.

It would be good to hear something different but the system was brought in to maintain the status quo, imo - and it will do a pretty good job.

Well, you can please yourself mate - but if people come on here just to have a pop then they can have a pop back.

Just a note to say again that I know of no such standard clause in contracts and have never seen one. Which is not to deny they will of course occasionally exist, but whenever this has previously come up, nobody has ever been able to back up the claim that it is some "standard clause". It's therefore not. The standard clause thing is just a myth.

I imagine now that P&R are back it might well suddenly start appearing, or something like it, in new or renewed contracts going forward but that would be a change.

Dunno, FA. Urban myth or not, there has to be some kind of work through to cover the fact that A) a club is only allowed one overseas player in the lower divisions and may well have three or four under contract at the end of a SL season and B) the sum of the contracts is almost certainly going to break the Championship cap by a significant margin.

Incidentally, my argument all along has been that P&R is no more back next year than it was under licensing - though relegation is certainly on the agenda at the end of this season - and even under big, bad, evil licensing there was the occasional club brought through...a situation I can't truthfully foresee under the latest incarnation.

P&R will exist in the same sense as the possibility that I may take a months holiday in the Bahamas or buy a new 'Roller' or private jet: that is to say whilst all of that is legally possible under the law of the land, it is purely a notional concept which, not to put too fine a point on it, just isn't going to happen. I may, or more likely may not, be proved wrong on that but it is my very firm opinion.

You don't think... the RFL... haven't thought the implications through, at all? What a shock that would be. They're normally so on-the-ball.