Unbelievable

They've decided who can have the club, but it can - apparently - wait until after the weekend for any of them to actually be told.

Simply disgraceful treatment of the (ex) players and staff, and that's before we consider the supporters...

I still reckon it could be Koucash who's backing Chalmers with money...

dHope this was the best bid for Bradford and not just a shared love of Bradford.....curries that has swung the vote....

What the RFL waiting for now? Big Nige to finish his all you can eat buffet! Could be a long wait of that is so

Yay! Less than 5 minutes and we have our very first conspiracy theory!

I agree.

No announcement from RFL till Monday. The wait goes on.

Well, the RFL have agreed the deal and the new owners are to talk to the remaining players. That'll be why there's no big announcement yet, because while we have a club, we don't have a team to actually announce yet.

Wow, we made Radio 2 again

I hope your new owner is announced soon. PLEASE can we have whoever comes second?

Precisely. People have very rightly railed against how shabbily the players and staff have been treated and kept in the dark, and yet now there's a deal, they want to know before anyone else.

As a fan, I expect any new owner to be busting their balls over the next few days trying to salvage whatever they can from the wreckage. I'm cool with being told about it once they know what's left and have something to announce.

I don't get that reasoning at all

Surely it's perfectly possible to announce the person X has become the new owner and that they intend to speak to the remaining players / coaching staff over the weekend ahead of a press conference on Monday.

Why is it deemed necessary to keep the identity of the owner secret? (Not that it appears to be all that much of a secret anyway...)

Why not just announce it, so that EVERYONE knows - players, staff, supporters etc? Surely the players are intelligent enough to know that they aren't necessarily guaranteed a job, but at least it keeps everyone in the picture as to where the process has reached.

I hate all this 'we know more than you' crap that the RFL seem to enjoy

Accoding to companies house,bradford 2017 has been registered by Andrew chalmers.

It's bloody frustrating really. This latest stunt from the RFL reminds me of being a kid in school who has just had his first kiss. Everyone knows you did it, and who with, but you won't tell anyone out of some form of mild insecurity that people will laugh at you for it. Bonkers.

I think Irvine and Lamb are making it clear on twitter they're out, so at least that's confirmation that it's moving. BBC state ownership is decided so just hope the delay is to announce the new club's made a shedload of signings over the weekend and that Marwan's sending us Welham back on a season long loan...*gibber*