Bulls selling on the cheap again then.

There's some good news apparently in the League Weekly this week.

Such as what?

Mike worrincy is coming back and bateman is off to the scholars.

Believe it or not, we've had leaner times than this!

We will recover, one way or another.

It may not initially be in Superleague, or at Odsal, but professional ( or semi professional) Rugby league will survive in Bradford because there is enough people witha will to make it so!

now it seems very hard to accept that losing the likes of Bateman/Whitehead etc... but if that secures long term survival then so be it. The problem is that 500k from selling these two (and that's being optimistic!) still leaves a similar sized shortfall!

Not sure that will wash. Not after all the s11te we have been peddled. We would have had every choice but to sell them had things been handled differently.

If we sell, then I only see a downward spiral.

I hope this doesn't happen and the Bulls sort out their financial situation, retain all their players and stay competitive. A strong Bradford is important for SL.

All things point to admin IMO.

And I have said right from the start that if we go into admin, without a prepack waiting, I can't see any satisfactory exit. It's not historic debt but lack of income that seems to be the fundamental problem. Neither administration nor selling what's left of the family silver can solve that. So I hope you are wrong. Once in Admin, I suspect it would be all down to blind chance.

I don't understand this, 'Lets sell some players to survive'. We only just got to 10,000 season tickets holders this year. Do you think we will let anywhere near that amount if the following happens?
Not reach the top 8.
Season tickets will be going up, prices doubling or more.
Loosing our best young players.
Replacing them with worse players
Become a feeder club everything we get good youngsters.

Are 10,000 going to pay £200+?? The answer is no chance.
They will retain the core fans, 4,000-5,000 maybe.

Will we then be-able to run a club then if we have such a shortfall now??????

I wouldn't be surprised if there was a pre-pack admin. Coulby's already stated that some new investors will only come in after the outstanding debts are sorted. That may then sort the income for any new entity. I get the feeling that we're being "warmed up" to expect it.

We could also sell the most wanted players to pay the tax bills which would then leave us open to investment. However investors would be less likely to back us in this scenario IMO.

It all depends on these mystery investors because without them we're scuppered and I can't see us continuing in SL or at Odsal.

most season tickets we sold prior to the cheap deals,including the successful period 2000-2005 was in 4k-5k region. We rely on being attractive on the pitch to get the other 5k+ as walkup support. If we can keep core of this team together then thats probably realistically achievable next year. If we lose a few of the top players then we'll struggle with the walkup support.

If we sold our brightest then I certainely wouldnt buy a ticket and I wouldnt walk over the road to support either.

Its blindingly obvious that if we increase season ticket prices to an economic level the numbers sold will fall to perhaps 4,000. But its the only way of establish a sensible base from which to grow the club. Its the only way the club can charge realistic prices to future new or returning fans. Having 10,000 fans paying a pittance means that we've no way of increasing income if we do improve.