I really hope new buyers are found and Bradford take their place, but having looked at the RFL requirements I'm not sure how quickly that can be done.
However, assuming it is sorted in the next few weeks I think there is an argument that Bradford's start to the season is delayed a couple of weeks to allow time to get a team together....I don't know how feasible that will be.
I would also hope that all other clubs will offer a few players for loans to help get the club going, especially in the short term.
Is starting in the Championship a certainty or could the club still start in League 1?

The Bulls current set up and the Bulls RFL proposed set will only avoid going back into administration when the owner(s) can no longer get borrow anymore cash or put off paying for things if the person/people in charge a a top business person with loads of cash/a consortium of top business people with loads of cash.

Unfortunately those sorts of people would not find either proposition attractive as there is no return likely from it. If they took on things like those they wouldn't be top business people with loads of cash.

Instead it's attractive to other kinds of people and it's just doomed to failure.

It's like pulling off a plaster for the RFL this. Rip it off its bad but then you can move on. Continue to tug away at it and prolong the agony.

The correspondence from RFL make it clear that they want owners to keep club in championship. Which means new owners need to pay championship wages. Difficult when you have previous debts, reduced grant and a lease to pay.

If one or two of those factors weren't there then the proposition of delivering RL in Bradford could comfortably break even or turn a profit.

I'm not sure too many will disagree to be honest. I would be very surprised if anyone came on and said that Rugby League in this country was better now then its ever been. Crowds are down, quality is way down, there is still only realistically 3 or 4 teams that are ever going to win anything, the salary cap has had the opposite effect - rather then levelling the playing field, it has made the gulf between the haves and haves nots even bigger. Those who can afford it, find a way round it with no consequences, yet the RFL pretend that its not happening and all teams have the same to spend on their squads.

I feel the whole system is broken now, and I'm not sure there is a way back.

Is Braveheart Mark Moore?

Not sure but he's definitely got some kind of agenda. It's pretty f*cking irritating to be honest.

I have a mate on the same caravan site that he goes to and he's been involved in the bidding process with some pie in the sky plan for "fan involvement", whatever that means.

Probably because his son on facebook was peddling the same nonsense.

I'm sure Moore was in talks with Green long before admin about buying/taking shares in what was our beloved Bulls... He had a backer with money...

Given the criteria laid out by the RFL for new ownership and the current situation regarding playing and coaching staff there is absolutely no chance of a new owner being found. It's just not practically possible.

In time for the new season. Agreed. Not a chance.

Yes.

Rfl seem stuck between a rock and a hard place.
If they set the bar to low your club ends up in administration if they set it to high no one is prepared to put the money in

Yep my heart bleeds for them.

I'd be interested to know how a club could break even. I think that's impossible without substantial injections of cash to cover the ground upkeep. A SL club couldn't manage it with crowds of 10k.

Fantasy. Especially to expect supporter input after all the upset of the past 5 years.

This club is dead unless someone like a Ken Davy is prepared to prop it up or if it moves to a new home. Even then I have my doubts. Where would a new club go? Horsfall? If so it would be resigned to a part time future in front of crowds of a few hundred with no way of aspiring to anything better.

I see parallels with Hudders in the 80s. A club with a proud history but fallen on hard times playing in an antiquated stadium.