It's not about what folk on here said is it?

I personally couldn't give a tiny toss what ME or FA said 4 years ago.

If you want to have that debate do it on another thread.

Depends.

First time around all stayed put initially as the admin thought it meant a better chance of getting a buyer I think.

It was similar second time around IIRC.

However it may not happen that way and players often slip through the net like Craig Kopout.

Gareth Carvell
Jarrod Sammut
Nick Scruton

I see the RFL now having a dilemma over the current situation. With the season starting 6 weeks after Xmas this administration must be done with fairly quickly as the RFL need to be sure they have clubs to fulfill fixtures. I would think sadly there may be a small chance of the RFL revoking the Bulls RFL membership if it is not sorted quickly and bringing a club up from League 1 (Barrow). Placing the Bulls in League 1 when and only when a takeover is finalised. The timing of this could go against the Bulls. Hope it doesn't but you have to admit this is faintly possible.

It's because you always turn up in times of crisis just to pompously claim how you "called it" etc., and here you are again. Well, you didn't call it, and you have no grounds at all to slag off RAB posters in relation to Green, yet you have done. Basically your post is weirdly blaming everyone on here for the Bulls' demise, and for not listening to you. As if there was anything anyone on here could have done to influence the events with Green. Deluded and boring.

Possible? On the contrary, I'll be amazed if we come out of the other side of this one in anything like our current version. Our concern on here is more whether we can survive at all, and has been for some months, and certainly since the criminal Featherstone debacle.

Reading the RFL statement it sounds like you maybe right. The statement is worded to suggest they have had enough and that they will be looking at other clubs interests first.

"In these circumstances the RFL will always seek to support a club in difficulty for the sake of those directly affected and also on behalf of the Chairmen and Boards of well managed clubs who deserve stability"

Bulls going into League 1 would actually cost a fair few teams thousands in revenue. I doubt Batley, Fev, Halifax, etc v Barrow would be the kind of draw that the Bulls is to them, and the attendances would reflect this.

I fear the worst is yet to come.

However if the club was to be kicked into League 1, why not simply start again without any ties to anything. Bradford Northern 2016, they is nothing that really means the club should bend over backwards. SL status is gone unlike on the other 2 admins, the central funding is as low as it will be anyhow and a years newly formed in league 1 is no worse than having the milstones round the Bulls neck from the RFL in the Championship with little chance of a top 4 finish.

People always say its the players and employees that are worst hit. I disagree. Most will get employment elsewhere. The demise of a club hits fans the worst. Most will just give up on RL completely rather than start supporting a different team.

I fear for our own future if we fail promotion next year. A difference though, is Hull only has 2 teams competing for financial backing in a 20 mile radius. In West Yorks, its about 9 across all 'pro' leagues.

Good luck, wouldn't want Northern to go bust, even as a Rovers fan.

Well that's a bit rich coming from a body that keeps insisting we take the offer from blokes with no bloody money!



We start on minus 12 and that's the top 4 effectively out of reach. So that's a season where we know we can achieve nothing and the resulting apathy from fans simply exacerbates the financial predicament for whatever owner emerges. Or we go genuinely bust and emerge in Championship 1 with some new places to visit.

Which do people prefer?

Seems Mark Lawn fancies taking over the ex football owner

Second option at Horsfall Stadium. Ditch Odsal, the Bulls and bring back the Northern moniker. Bring a sad and sorry episode to an end.

I expect Leeds to come back in with offers for Mellor and O'Brien, had offers rejected by Bradford in the past few months.