"Special measure's"?

The recruitment ban didn't last long!. The RFL then sat back and watched the Bulls spend money they knew they didn't have

This is surely conflict of interest. That Odsal lease is blinding the RFL from making any correct decisions regarding Bradford .

Take it up with Nigel.

I'd guess we agreed a reduced acceptable cap spend for coming season with RFL and were allowed to sign players that wouldn't take us over that level. Our overall salary bill was reduced significantly with departures of a lot of high earners like Gaskell,Purtell,Ferguson clough etc and players they were being replaced by looked cheaper options. But this wouldn't have kicked in until December wage bill.

Isn't it conceivable that Green basically just flouted the rules, thinking he'd get away with avoiding payment to HMRC? I'm sure some of the signings weren't even 'official' anyway, despite the announcements made.

To be honest the whole notion of 'special measures' (never previously even mentioned) sounds like an attempt by the RFL to cover their ass.

How can we possibly be told, in July, that we 'can't sign players' - but then be allowed to sign Jason Walton on September 2nd, Phil Joseph on October 6th, and Laclan Burr on October 27th?

It just doesn't hang together. It seems like the RFL just made this up to make themselves look tough at a press conference whilst hoping that nobody would go away and do a little Google research (which is all I just did)

When they were signed/registered with the rfl and when they were announced might well be many weeks apart.

I think the RFL defence would be that while Bulls had agreed contracts with them, the RFL hadn't accepted the contract to be registered and therefore hadn't transferred the player registration.

I had it on good authority that the team which started preseason was put together for £500-£600k less than the bloated squad which finished last season. So RS had already overhauled the squad he'd inherited and got the spend down. Thats a lot of cloth cutting, the downside was the financial damage had been done already.

Then I suggest you toddle straight off down the Courts and get your judicial review application in directly. You owe it to the sport.

Just stop fscking droning on at the Bradford fans, we need another trolling halfwit numpty like we need a hole in the head.

Why did the RFL buy the club’s assets as stated in the Guardian report? Surely that should be up to Chalmers & Lowe.

Someone's got time on their hands!

Indeed. While you're up...

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