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As a Leeds fan looking in I really don't see a problem at all. I am sure that if the same situation happened to another club the RFL would have no choice but to afford them the same treatment.

It isn't the RFL paying the wages they are being advanced money Bradford were due anyway.
Can't see a problem with extending the deadline either. If bulls go into liquidation I am guessing that not all the creditors will be paid in full anyway so if a interested buyer is willing to pay all the debts off what's the problem? It's worth waiting and giving them a chance to do this, the worst that would happen is they get liquidated anyway if it doesn't work, may as well give it a shot to pay bills in full.

As an aside Akbars taking over could be a good thing for the game in general. ( also would improve my match day visits! Beer and good curry!) there is surley a vast untapped talent pool in the Asian community. Don't know what you guys feel but having successful Asian owners/role models may get rugby league into the communities more effectively and unearth some good talent that might not have come into RL? Just a thought

Have you ever considered learning English? I'm suggesting it because that way people might be able to read and understand your stuff, even if it's not actually worth the effort.

I guess he's refering to the help Hull got in 1999, rightly or wrongly;

rlhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sport/rugby_league/news/459986.stmrl

Hull Sharks and Gateshead Thunder have announced their intention to join forces for next year's Super League season.
The announcement from Hull owner David Lloyd came four hours after Sheffield Eagles and Huddersfield Giants proposed a similar plan.
It also arrived shortly before a Super League cash sweetener for merging clubs is reduced by £250,000 at midnight on Thursday.
Until then a £1.25m bonus from television money is available.
The Sharks are deeply in debt, and after the merger a club with Hull's name is likely to play in the division from which they escaped relegation, the Northern Ford Premiership.


rlhttp://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/gateshead-fold-as-league--agrees-merger-741473.htmlrl

Andrew Whitelam, a Super League spokesman, saidhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateshead_Thunderrl

Gateshead Thunder claimed to have lost £700,000 during their one year in existence and on Monday 15 November 1999 the board announced they would merge the club with Hull Sharks, accepting a £1.25 million fee from Super League Europe to do so. The Association of Premiership Clubs blocked proposals for the newly merged company to enter a separate Hull-based team in the Northern Ford Premiership [1] and so the new club would be called Hull and play all its home games in Hull. This was widely seen as a takeover simply to allow Hull to remain in Super League.

i have no issue with the players been paid. They deserve it after the way they have performed throughout this whole shambles.

But these players are supposed to be paid by their employers - Bradford.

And their employers are effectivley relying on an advance payment from the RFL so they can do this.

the 'underperformance' i was hinting at was not by the players, it was by Bradford as a club. The missmanagment that has got the club into this mess doesn't warrant handouts and favours.

This is why i dont believe that the RFL should help Bradford in ways they most likely wouldnt help other clubs in the same situation.

i took your advice and rang my local college to see if i could enroll on an English course.

However due to 'government funding' and cutbacks i was unable to get a place.

Shame.

if only everyone paid their tax eh?!

If you get your new wish there will be no possibility of that being paid, or for any revenues from that source to be made in the future.

Make your mind up, dick head.

Can I have that tenner back I threw into the Fax appeal a few years back then?

And me my £50 back from that appeal?

Would you all do me a tiny favour and if you really MUST respond to Simmsfaxhalfwit, don't press "Quote"? This numpty is one of 2 that has been on my foes list for years so I can blissfully avoid wasting seconds of my life reading his drivel, but might accidentally see it(as I just did) through you quoting it.

Thank you.

And they have sadly not improved over time.

I don't begrudge the Halifax club a penny of the donations I made to it, but they do have my sympathy.

Simmsfaxhalfwit!

has a nice ring to it, i may consider a name change.

1 of 2 eh?! whos the other one?

I have an opinion, as you do. And i come on here because i find debating our great game of Rugby League enjoyable. I do not come on to wind people up or to have vendettas or hold grudges.

I also have alot of Bradford 'fan' freinds believe it or not. Admittedly most were Fax fans before they jumped ship to watch Bullman and Bullgirl. But thats a whole other story.

I also have these same debates in the pub on a weekly basis.

Drivel - i take offence to. but then some people fail to be able to express their 'opinion' in a polite and appropriate way. Dont they NotsoFerociousi'vemadeamillionpostsAardvark?!

I know some Halifax fans who were Bradford fans but jumped ship to watch Billy and Bluey............not really.

I know some Halifax fans who were full of sympathy when it looked like we were done for but turned into little spouts of hate when it dawned on them they might not get the pay off they were after all along.

Honestly, do you two have no idea how double standards work?



They ARE being paid by their employers or rather the administrator who's taken over the running of the club. Bradford are not alone in getting an advance on Sky money. Many SL clubs have done this in the past and no doubt will do it again in the future. It's money the club is due, they're just asking for it early. So, saying the RFL wouldn't help other clubs in the same situation shows how little you actual know.