The RFL put Bradford in special measures and suspended registration of players based on this.

Can't see how it was an error. Overdue tax bills don't get filed & forgotten about.

Has the loan from Barclays been cleared? The £200k loan from Bradford Council?

whether my individual figures were accurate or not, the basic formula was spot on. You had received 840k of investment from your owner BEFORE you missed a wages payment. You then received another 900k from your owner to meet that wages payment.....so minimum of his investment used in 2013 is 1,040,000 notes (200k wages). Little is any new income since then...Catalan and London fans arrive via skateboard...but you continue to say the remaining 700k hasn't been used to pay bills this year.
Direct Debit sales for next years ST and please let us get 1,000 sold before Hudds point to stealing from peter to pay paul.......and lest we forget, the TAX BILL that was forgotten
I hope Bradford Bull pull through, but at the moment, the first 12 months has not gone to plan and to deny this is insane!

Over, done with, move on!

Good post. I believe that budgets would have being adjusted, but they will be aiming for top 8, or a cup run for abit of extra revenue. That's probably true for 5+ teams in the comp and shouldn't be a negative, it should be a reason to back the season ticket drive.

As for money for the signings, when you set it out you can see where the money has come from. (Clearly making some assumptions, correct me if I'm way off!)
Diskin - Must have resigned on a much lower wage
Platt - On a good contract from a time gone by
Langley - One of the top earners at the club
Whitehead - Read £2,000 a week before, which must be up there.
Lulia - Again must be a top earner

Who's denying the first 12 months haven't gone to plan? But as that plan was conceived by people who've never run a sporting club before, it's only natural that there'd be some teething troubles and I've never said what the remaining monies have been used for, if anything. This is another case of you making something up and calling it fact.

As for the missed salary payment, the club knew it was coming and tried to get the investment into the club to prevent it, unfortunately due to a banking error, this was delayed.

How can your basic formula be "spot on" if you ignore or discount large numbers of other incomes and only use a select few in order to justify your argument? That's like saying 2+2 = 1,003,254

As for the oversight regarding the tax bill, the club have already addressed that AND it was properly addressed at the time. If not then HMRC would have taken out a notice in the London Gazette, which is what they would legally be required to do in the course of pursuing a winding up order. This never happened, as the club paid the outstanding amount in full and within the time given to them by HMRC.

Teething troubles? BTW...forgetting to pay the bill is one of the lamest excuses I have ever heard but you will patently lap it up. The only excuse you've yet to use is that the Dog ate your homework.......

In the original report of Omar's 900k investment it was clearly stated this was intended to cover ongoing costs for this year and next so the 1.74M (840+900) is intended to be over 2 years not 1. Although not ideal that he has to put that amount of money in, when Omar took the club over he talked about 2-3 years to get it running at a self sustaining level and we're 1 year into that. If he needs to do it again any time next year then there is something very wrong.

Which goes to show these things are cyclical, good for City to finally to get their act together and eventually drag themselves up a division instead of the perpetual free fall of the last decade. As for Super League, well that's pretty much down to the previous regime getting us into a huge mess at a time when the world fell in on it's arrse, but we're still at the top table and still have a team to watch.

I'm sure precious City remember the bad times too. Still, I'm also sure there are plenty rubbing their hands with faux concern.

hey...OK has invested the better part of 2 million in 11 months....let's see how he gets on next year and if he has another 2 mill handy

Anything which really does have a value of £3m, can be sold for something in that order. I could say my dog is valued at £3m, and to me it probably is, but as nobody would pay that, it is almost as meaningless. Nobody, but nobody, being remotely interested in buying my dog at anything approaching my valuation is all I need to know. I can boldly insist its value is £3m, but in any sense that actually matters, it's not.


You understood the point very well. Your new question doesn't make any sense. The relevant question is whether the bills were paid, and they were, albeit late.


The target was ambitious. "Totally unrealistic" is just your jaundiced view. We've had that number in the recent past and I'd assume that if we set an ambitious target of 10K then secretly we'd have been aiming for maybe 8K plus. Given the way in which the Bulls fans stuck together during the crisis and the goodwill that was evident at that time, I too am disappointed that this only materialised in 6.5k. I didn't expect 10k, but 6.5k was a bit poor to be honest. And why wouldn't GS be disappointed? And what is the relevance if he expressed his disappointment "on more than one occasion"? 2.79296875:5