By who?

If the RFL dont run the RFL who does?

Hi Red, does koukash actually own the Bulls?

I'm sure my past posts answer this,

How far have we got with the speculation above logic? Over the 3 admins. we have speculated all the positive and negative spins that were humanely unfeasible. What has actually happened is that the status remains as Quo: ie We have consistently gone down to the lowest denominator, with actually no one at HQ giving a fig about where we would end up. Reality is the most difficult truth to accept. Hope and the RFL are not good bed fellows!
Sadness is the most damming verdict I am seeing with many of our supporters, and when people begin to accept the inevitable, hope and enthusiasm for the future begins to disappear.

But surely it's a case of finding your level. We are poop this year. Keeping us up for no reason won't make us any better next year. It's not as though we just need to tinker about with 1 or 2 positions.
These conspiracy theories are just to create a bit of interest to keep the fans turning up. However it's just like any other commodity, you don't keep buying it hoping it will get better, you wait until it's got better and then you try it again.

Like virtually all fans I believed the RFL gave us a poisoned chalice making us stay in the Championship with no team or money, just to satisfy their needs.
We are heading for C1 where we should have been put this year. The only hope I have is that Hull KR replace Catalans in SL. What will the RFL do then? The likes of Batley Fax Dewsbury will be struggling crowds wise when London, Tolouse, Toronto and Catalans arrive to play there. There must be some Championship Chairman panicking at the thought of no HKR or Bulls to give them bumper crowds. Well done Fat Man.

Don't know the percentages, but the SL clubs & Sky run rugby league. The RFL still runs the RFL

When the SL clubs voted to hit us with the 1yr central funding hit that did for Omar and ultimately tipped us out of the SL, RFL were unable/unwilling to argue against.

Right, here's where I am on this whole thread...

I've had a gutful of rumours, innuendo, hints and winks. I got burned out on that last Christmas and New Year with all the false promises and rumours that ultimately ended with nothing. So you'll perhaps understand why I don't want another load of it now.

So, Mr redeverready: if you actually KNOW something (emphasis on 'know') then let's have a proper post spelling out exactly what it is you know. No more nods and winks, no more vague allusion, no more references to 'three wise men' and 'I think I already told you that earlier'.

Tell us what you know in plain English. Because along with, I am sure, quite a few others, I'm sick to the back teeth of people who rather appear as if they enjoy knowing what the rest of us don't

Makes no difference to this season. The owners are going to struggle to make ends meet with ever decreasing crowds as it becomes obvious we're not competing this year. It's all very well saying "you've got a club haven't you?" but if you want to attract people to games you need to do better than that.

If it is just Chalmers and Lowe bankrolling things we'll struggle to see the season out. If there's some mystery sugar daddy I hope he's got deep pockets.

If it turns out we're really down and it is C1 next year the club is going to have to pull its finger out with the marketing and promotion. That's if we get that far.

Thanks you for listening, hope you enjoyed the broadcast.

Hmm so on the one hand Karl Harrison says the Bulls haven't started talking to the kids he represents (includes Ethan Ryan) - but on the other Chalmers told FA and Friday "All the players know where they stand regarding contracts."

Someone's being economical with the truth here.

Chalmers was probably just referring to the letter all the players got, and that should we go down their contracts are (probably) voided or something.
Realistically, how are the owners supposed to start negotiating contracts now when we have no idea what league we'll be in?
If it were me than I'd probably assume we're down now, especially after Sunday's result. So perhaps they can now start drawing up some forecasts and budgets, work out what they can afford to offer everyone and make them some (probably p!ss poor) offers.

Either that or we go part time and sign a completely new squad in the off season

Both could of course be true. And in teh circumstances, probably are.

True that. The players are basically on one year contracts as the new owners didn't know anything much about them, when they had little option but to sign whoever remained. With Chisholm, he wasn't here, he was on the other side of the globe at the time.

AC did talk a bit about fulltime and part time players at the meeting. He said the F/T P/T thing isn't as clear cut at this level as people think. There are players with well paid work who may be better and more talented than many C / C1 level players but are not prepared to go full time, whther cos they don't want a pay cut,or don't want to leave their job or close their business. So he said it is perfectly possible to sign a better lower league P/T player than F/T. And so if you were insisting on F/T then you'd miss any players in this category, who don't want to be F/T