Points deduction poll

Quote: Adeybull "Answer these simple questions please, Mr Dweeb? Since you must be very well acquainted with all the particulars of what happened, I would expect you will have the numbers readily available if not commited to memory?

1 - At the date BBH was placed in Administration (26/6/12), how much of the 2012 Sky/central funding allocation had been paid by the RFL to BBH over and above what BBH was due to receive anyway on a monthly basis up to 26/6/12?

2 - How much did the RFL pay to to Joint Administrators of BBH in the nine and a half weeks weeks between 26/6/12 and 31/8/12, the date OKB took over the business?

3 - If the RFL had paid more to BBH up to 26/6/12 than was due on a normal monthly basis (see Question 1), why was that excess - which will have been an advance agaist future payments, and therefore a creditor in the books of BBH - not recorded as a creditor in the list of creditors prepared by the Joint Administrators?

4 - What (if anything) was the value of [Sky money/central funding due to a SL club for 2012] less [amounts paid to BBH prior to 26/6/12] less [amounts paid to the Joint Administrators 26/6/12-31/8/12]?

5 - If the answer to 4 was > nil, what happened to that residual amount?

6 - You state the RFL paid Fees charged by the Joint Administrators. How much did they pay, and when? And why is there no reference to any such payments in the Joint Administrators' filings at Companies House?

7 - Please state, for the avoidance of doubt, how much the RFL paid to BBH, BBH (in Administration), The Joint Administrators for fees, any other parties directly where BBH (in Administration) would otherwise have been responsible and OKB (if anything) for the 2012 funding season (which I think runs from the previous November?).

8 - Please state how much more the value in 7 was than the funding due to a SL club for the 2012 funding season?

9 - Please compare that value with the c.£1.3m confiscated from OKB and BBNL, and explain the justification for the retention by the RFL of any difference.

I'll just check out my copies of all the documents filed at Companies House and/or issued to creditors while you put your answers together, so we can cross-reference where necessary.

Thnaks in anticipation.'"

The RFL is not a creditor of any club with regard to distribution of Sky money, hence why it does not appear as such on any financial statements.

The RFL funded BB Holdings prior to the company being placed in administration.

This was done with the agreement of the other Super League clubs, the caveat being that this support would be redeemed from any future central funding. Hence the OK Bulls not receiving what ordinarily would have been distributed had there been no assistance to BB Holdings.

You may recall the serious financial state the club announced it was in during the early part of 2012. Perhaps you should be asking of the then directors and shareholders, who was funding the club from the point when the financial difficulties were made public. Who injected the cash required to keep the club afloat.

I think you will find the reply is that it was not any of them. Who did pay the substantial bill for P%A Partnership, if as you appear to believe, it was not the RFL?

It would seem that some Bradford Bulls fans have trodden the same path as Mark Moore followed the same path as Stephen Coulby before him in blaming the RFL for the problems created by the directors and owners of the various operating companies behind the club.

To clarify, I am unable to quote exact figures as they are subject to commercially confidential agreements.