I think you're misunderstanding, somebody assumed it had been restored because none of the league tables were showing it. Unfortunately it hasn't been restored.

League table has now been corrected, -12: Bradford Bulls (Condition of membership of the RFL)

[url=http://www.rugby-league.com/kingstone_press_leagues/league_tablesLeague table[/url

How come all the other RFL members started on zero?

Are we -12 points for ever then regardless of wins? Or just at the start of every season?

Odd wording, but then they can't say -12 for entering administration or being liquidated as that was the previous Bulls.

The only possible rationale I can come up with is that the RFL see it as a compensatory deduction to make it up to those teams that finished behind us last year when the club was being run irresponsibly and benefitting from having a better side than could be afforded.

It doesn’t stand scrutiny either really given that our spendthrift ways of signing heaps of players and binning them off at a moment’s notice didn’t exactly mean we did very well out of it.

So all clubs have -12 as condition of membership?

It's weird that is has only been deducted from ours.

Yeah, I keep refreshing the webpages but it seems Torontos -12 isn't showing either.

I thought the RFL decide on the points any new team start with by checking the BBC weather for Helsinki. If only we'd restarted in June.

What should the penalty be for serially screwing the tax man & local suppliers? Apart from a 3 year rent holiday obvs.

Prosecute the chairman who evaded the debt?

Because punishing another club for ones misdemeanours has worked so well in the past.

Obviously the penalty is to punish some people that had no say whatsoever in those actions.