The fact that virtually everyone of us is taking this setback on the chin illustrates just how far fetched we deemed the appeal to be. Time to quickly move on.

What will be the players reaction on Sunday though? They'll possibly decide to dig ourselves out of this hole the traditional way....or they entirely give up and we get bent over.

RFL Statement Quote: The independent Sporting Sanctions Appeals Panel will hand down a full written judgement within the next 14 days.'" :2q3tk6l8] http://www.therfl.co.uk/news/article/30 ... -sanctions "An independent Sporting Sanctions Appeals Panel has upheld the six-point deduction handed down to Bradford Bulls by the RFL Board of Directors as a penalty for entering into administration in January 2014 RFL Chief Operating Officer Ralph Rimmer said www.therfl.co.uk/news/article/30 ... -sanctions

RFL Statement Quote: The independent Sporting Sanctions Appeals Panel will hand down a full written judgement within the next 14 days.'" :2q3tk6l8] http://www.therfl.co.uk/news/article/30 ... -sanctions "An independent Sporting Sanctions Appeals Panel has upheld the six-point deduction handed down to Bradford Bulls by the RFL Board of Directors as a penalty for entering into administration in January 2014 RFL Chief Operating Officer Ralph Rimmer said www.therfl.co.uk/news/article/30 ... -sanctions

There are very clear guidelines. You just didn't accept them until you were told a second time, and it sounds like Marc Green wants the chance to be told a third time.

The new format will help you. You'll have one of the biggest fan bases in the Championship and so should be competitive by the time the middle chunk play each other. You've every chance of bouncing back. Due to the new format, I'm expecting a few clubs, like us and Fev and Leigh and one of the Hull clubs and Fax to be bouncing between the two divisions regularly.

The simple fact is that some people will look to blame others but fundamentally it is all our own fault. The club have been run by a collection of charlatans and shysters for years now and it has finally caught up with us.

Unfortunately the people who are ultimately responsible for this situation are not really going to be affected by the decision whatsoever and the players and fans of today are the ones who will suffer for their utter incompetence.

But it is not as if we were not warned. Whilst the fans assistance in saving the club last time round was admirable, it was also pretty embarrassing watching us bring out the begging bowls like some city centre "dweller" who is desperate for a "cup of tea."

It has been one disaster after another and, as I have said MANY times before, had it been another club I very much doubt that anyone on here would realistically be able to defend it whatsoever. As today proved, there was simply no case for the defence.

So next year will be the Super League without Bradford Bulls, barring some sort of miracle. In the unlikely event that I win the lottery then I promise I will buy out Wakefield Trinity Wildcats and liquidise them immediately. That would cheer us all up.

The collective brain-cell will be in overdrive in the fair city of Wakey today and, TBH, I can actually hear all the horses hooves from up here as they all ride into the city square to high-six each other.

I am not 100% convinced however, that Super League NEEDS the Bradford Bulls, but we certainly need Super League.

I feel angry and upset by the decision we can't do anything right when it comes to the RFL (clowns) for me unless we win every game till the end of season I can not see us staying up we will just be playing catch up with Wakefield all the time, relegation will not do the club any favours in my opinion it will make it worse Odsal is a drain as it is and crowds will go down even more yet again forcing the club into admin and maybe even going out business, R.I.P Bulls, sorry to sound down hearted but nothing seems to go for us these days.

Considering it's taken about 6 months to sort out, it surely could be a bit clearer - and let's not get started on the alleged threatening sending down of Wakey if they went back into admin. People are very quick to jump on the "the rules are clear" statement, when it's obviously anything but. I have no beef with the decision made, but the process is far from simple (especially as - lest we forget - this administration was nothing like the first one)

Consistency is not flavour of the month at the RFL - I genuinely look forward to the written report on what went on if only for some insight into what went on this time.

I'm referring to the made up rules regarding witheld sky monies and such like.

The only thing that i still fail to understand is how can the RFL deduct us 6 points as BB2014, yet they never actually got control.

BBNorthern or whatever we are now called, took control without the RFL considering the potential for paying off creditors and reducing the deduction.

The RFL are comparable to FIFA in all this.

Still as clear as mud. And the RFL statement includes the words forensic and complicated, not just a straightforward are you going to pay any creditors, take note Slugger McBatt. And yes I do agree with you that the new format should mean pretty swift promotion, and also would be a good thing for the club, simply to get back into a virtuous winning cycle again. Shame it was not in place first time around, we would have been relegated and promoted again by now I am sure.

But we have to wait another two weeks to find out what the case was and why insufficient. Even then we probably (@ 0.99 probability) will not know what the further options are that the Bulls statement refers to.