Cheers supercat but there are a lot of people prepared to chip in for the Bulls. And I agree admin is better than no club, wish you well.

cheers for the thought and I so hope you're right if we do end up in admin, I really do, but what if there is no buyer when we're in admin? I see or hear no real evidence of one so it would be a massive risk to assume there is one. Unless we're not being told the whole story.....wouldn't be the first time...

Peter Hood was very clear on Radio Leeds yesterday that they wouldnt take the fans' money unless they were very confident that the extra money would be raised.

If I were a Bulls director I'd definitely be taking legal advice as to how I would stand if the club took the money and then folded in the next few months (especially if I had given the bank a personal guarantee).

The 248.5K includes the money from the weekends fundraisers.

As a Wigan fan over the last forty years, I have seen some good and some bad times for our club. But to think that we escaped administration when Dave Whelan bought the club was an all time low.
I look now at what Wigan as a club do for our community, with Mr. Lenegan fully focused on what he can put back into the game and I just wonder how much harm would have been done if we had not been around.
Fast forward to present day and Bradford are facing the same problem.
As a club, I think that Bradford is one of the best in Super League, the supporters, the sportsmanship of the players and the passionate backroom staff at all levels.
To therefore contemplate a Super League without them is unthinkable and therefore fans from all clubs should do their best to pledge what they can.
I rang up last week to pledge and spoke to a realy nice young chap called Wayne who could not beleive how many fans from other superleague clubs were calling in.
We all hear of the Rugby League family being a special part of our game. Well I urge you to join in and help another club so that we can all enjoy our game for years to come.
Captain Dan
Wigan

Cheers mate that's very good of you.

It'll be tight but I think we will do it.

This is the most interesting bit.

If you were an investor you'd wait and see how much you can pick the club up for first before showing your hand.

A pledge total the other side of 500K means the investors pay less and shows a high level of support behind the club.

Sorry but this really is p&ss poor. That's 1,832 "people" so even less Bulls season ticket holders than that have pledged. Rubbish.

If Bradford were to go under, does anyone know what happens in regards to points for potential fixtures if they can't fulfill them? If everyone was given the 2 points then we (Leeds) would get an extra 2 compared to everyone else, but then again if the matches are just avoid we in effect would play a game less than others. Does anyone know?

I think you might be mistaking us for someone that would care!!!

Without wishing to sound rude, but why the fekk should we be in the slightest bit interested in that? If the club were to fold (and it won't provided those uncertain supporters do the right thing before it is too late) then very few of us will give a flying fekk what happens.

The problem we have is that we have had so many stories from the BOD over they years. The person I most believe is Adey and I get the impression that he has been misled at times by some of the board's excuses. Unfortunately I think it is now too late to say " but this time we are telling the truth". If the incredible supporters do not respond to your plea you will have noone to blame but yourselves. Rest assured Bradford Northern/Bulls will continue in one form or another. If you do not believe that the don't look towards Wakefield you have to look no further than Bradford Park Avenue.

Not sure if this could be lurking for RL in the near future www1.skysports.com/football/news ... Portsmouth

Not sure if this could be lurking for RL in the near future www1.skysports.com/football/news ... Portsmouth

OK, I guess it is hard facts time.

We told the board last night that too many people remain highly sceptical of the BOD, because of what they see as past failures to be honest with the fans. I have to say they were genuinely surprised. But we had to tell it as it is.

But its very clear to me that there is now a stark choice1 - Support the board's efforts to plug the funding gap

or

2 - The club will be in administration within days.

Its as simple as that, in my opinion.

I urge people not to listen to those (especially) from Wakey, who extol the virtues of what happened to them. Their situation was very different to ours. They had a much lower payroll cost, and far lower overheads in other areas too. The administrator could pay most of their day-to-day running costs short-term out of the Sky money. An administrator at Bradford would have no such luxury, and would need additional incomings to keep the ship intact while he tried to find a buyer for the assets.

If anyone DOES choose administration, please do it because you are genuinely convinced it is the better option on its own merits, having acquainted yourself of all the pros, cons and available facts. Not because of what some fans of other clubs say, where the circumstances were rather different to ours.

We asked the board if there was any indication of a "prepack" administration waiting in the wings. They said (and rightly) that if there was, it would either be by them or by someone who they had had to grant access to the books for. And they said there was not, and that they had no such approaches. So it would appear the chances of a speedy exit from administration are not promising.

You know my view: a prepack might work (albeit by screwing HMRC and the club's suppliers sponsors and whatever) but in a protracted administration we would rapidly lose key playing and other assets.

If you think the current BOD has been poor at engaging with the fans, do you expect Caisley - who I am convinced is waiting in the wings to pounce on the carcass - to be any better?

The choice can only be an individual one. I've made mine, because I simply dare not gamble on and am very worried about the alternative. Others who have not yet chosen to support the survival effort must do so soon. Very soon.

Or it will be too late.

They were surprised! We were surprised that they lied over the stadium deal and that we had borrowed heavily from the RFL. Too disingenuous for too long!

There are similarities with Wakefield, there supporters wouldn't hand their hard earned cash over to Ted Richardson, I fear our fans have simply decided they cannot send their cash to this BoD and their position is untenable only 1800 or so pledgers gives them a very strong message! They announce they're going and I believe we'd hit the target.