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Quote: Fr13daY "I received an email this morning from Andrew Chalmers asking for a link to this thread, which I sent. So maybe your concerns WILL be heard (or at least read!).'"


That or he just wants to make sure that what is being reported is accurate.

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Quote: roofaldo2 "That or he just wants to make sure that what is being reported is accurate.'"


Of course. That's why I sent it to him first!

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Quote: Fr13daY "I received an email this morning from Andrew Chalmers asking for a link to this thread, which I sent. So maybe your concerns WILL be heard (or at least read!).'"


So he is/was unable to find this forum? Clearly someone with his finger on......My God, you really are all delusional and the glory days will be back soon........

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Quote: Mr Dog "So he is/was unable to find this forum? Clearly someone with his finger on......My God, you really are all delusional and the glory days will be back soon........'"


I'm not quite sure I follow you here. Because someone who doesn't know this site can't find a specific thread on it we are 'delusional' about the future of the club?

I think the feedback here has been pretty realistic in that we don't expect an imminent return to the glory days, but that more information from the owners too keep fans in the loop is desperately needed. If AC asks for a direct link to this thread so he can see the feedback from fans himself that had to be a good thing, right?

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Quote: Scarey71 "I wonder just how many Championship Chairmen are cursing the RFL at the minute. 2018 looks to be a season they will be planning for already but with the loss of Bradford there will be a big loss in revenues at a time when Toulouse, London and Toronto will be in the league with the the lack of away fans that entails. Imagine if Catalans took the drop too to make way for KR.

4 home games with no additional revenue. Well played RFL
Im not sure they will be cursing the RFL more the total ineptness that Bradford have been run like. You are right though about the money though, the Fax board stated they would obviously much prefer Bradford to stay up despite what some of our fans think.

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Im surprised nobody has questioned how you run a team with some part time players and some full time players. It is simply not possible to make something like that work, the penny will drop with that though at some point. To be fair it does sound as though he has just said what he thinks people want to hear and there has to be a lot of questions about why they seem to be intent on increasing outgoings while all the time incomings are decreasing. A superstore? Expanding Academy, reserves set up, it all costs money that Championship teams cant afford let alone Champ 1 teams and even more so considering its highly likely the Bradford struggle to pay the rent on Odsal so somewhere along the line someone is going to have to stump up some money and my question would be are they good for it?

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If as rumoured that franchising is returning in 2019, maybe part of the requirements are to have a reserve team and a better academy than present?

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Quote: Greg Florimos Boots "Im not sure they will be cursing the RFL more the total ineptness that Bradford have been run like. You are right though about the money though, the Fax board stated they would obviously much prefer Bradford to stay up despite what some of our fans think.'"


The RFL haven't exactly covered themselves in glory in this whole fiasco either. They vouched for Green and were happy to pass him the reigns of the club and look what happened. They have also done the same with the current owners, perhaps even more suspiciously than the last time. Several bidders were in the press stating that their bids were ignored while the RFL opted for Chalmers and Lowe instead.
If we end up in admin (or worse) again in the near future, the RFL will have some serious questions to answer.

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Quote: Nothus "The RFL haven't exactly covered themselves in glory in this whole fiasco either. They vouched for Green and were happy to pass him the reigns of the club and look what happened. They have also done the same with the current owners, perhaps even more suspiciously than the last time. Several bidders were in the press stating that their bids were ignored while the RFL opted for Chalmers and Lowe instead.
If we end up in admin (or worse) again in the near future, the RFL will have some serious questions to answer.'"


Not just Green, the RFL nobbled Omar Khans bid after accepting him and then reducing monies etc at the last minute and expecting him to still take it. Which he did, and look where that left us.

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Quote: Greg Florimos Boots "Im surprised nobody has questioned how you run a team with some part time players and some full time players. It is simply not possible to make something like that work, the penny will drop with that though at some point. To be fair it does sound as though he has just said what he thinks people want to hear and there has to be a lot of questions about why they seem to be intent on increasing outgoings while all the time incomings are decreasing. A superstore? Expanding Academy, reserves set up, it all costs money that Championship teams cant afford let alone Champ 1 teams and even more so considering its highly likely the Bradford struggle to pay the rent on Odsal so somewhere along the line someone is going to have to stump up some money and my question would be are they good for it?'"
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How do you know incomings are reduced ?
Are you privy to next years sponsorship deals ?

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After today's game I've figured out what it is I want.

I WANT TO SEE IMPROVEMENT.

Forget winning the cup or even avoiding relegation. I'm sick of seeing the exact same thing every week. It doesn't work one week and so we try it again.

On BCB they've been discussing Rochdale tactics to slow things up and to roughbit up. We knew on this forum they were going to do that because everybody does it week in week out. THE PERFORMANCE AND TACTICS DONT CHANGE.

So I suggest that those who haven't already take off their blindfold and thinking were blessed for having a team at all because I'm sick of the argument. Every week the answer is they were bigger than us and that isn't cutting it.

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Quote: HAPEtobehere "After today's game I've figured out what it is I want.

I WANT TO SEE IMPROVEMENT.

Forget winning the cup or even avoiding relegation. I'm sick of seeing the exact same thing every week. It doesn't work one week and so we try it again.

On BCB they've been discussing Rochdale tactics to slow things up and to roughbit up. We knew on this forum they were going to do that because everybody does it week in week out. THE PERFORMANCE AND TACTICS DONT CHANGE.

So I suggest that those who haven't already take off their blindfold and thinking were blessed for having a team at all because I'm sick of the argument. Every week the answer is they were bigger than us and that isn't cutting it.'"


The amount of dropped balls, out of position in defence, clueless in attack; we have been like that all season! These are full-time professional Rugby players, being shown up by part-timers week in, week out.

We seem to be getting worse. So much for the Toovey Bounce.....

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Quote: Fr13daY "The amount of dropped balls, out of position in defence, clueless in attack; we have been like that all season! These are full-time professional Rugby players, being shown up by part-timers week in, week out.

We seem to be getting worse. So much for the Toovey Bounce.....'"



Precisely what I was thinking, off season or not we should be seeing movement in the right direction but quite the opposite

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Toovey says we missed the off season. That must be where they teach them to catch the ball. Up in Queensbury we taught them that at U8's. As for parttimers we already have one, they only concentrate on rugby Mon - Sat.

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Hi Andrew.
Are you as fed up and let down by the performances we see week in and week out? Do you know that more and more fans are deciding to not bother any more? Do you have plans in place to halt this decline? Or is this as good as it gets?
Thanks.

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