I agree, although i think Kear is probably our best player under the high ball. Kearney into the halves for a couple of games won't hurt but not as our first team choice, i think Addy would be further up the list to play there over Kearney?

are there any ex academy and now fringe SL scrum halves needing time on the pitch we could loan?

I guess the suggestions for Cutting £400,000 from the OP is because, raising revenue is extremely difficult. If it was easy then the previous regimes would have done so.

Also raising revenue whilst possibly losing better players and sliding down the league table would take some pretty good talking from those attracting sponsors.

There are so many clubs teetering on the brink, yet we still have calls to raise the salary cap to match the NRL. To me that would just see the clubs who are doing well financially overspending too and leaving the league on very shakey ground.

I still think the salary cap should be replaced with a break even cap. But maybe that's a topic for somewhere else.

I do hope all the clubs struggling can find their way back to solvency.

Salary caps only work if the clubs raise enough revenue to pay the salaries, what should be in place is a ceiling that clubs can pay up to as long as they have the income ie a max of 50% spent on players. Income should not include any loans that are repayable or funds secured against assets.....

That, or something on those lines, is what we used to have when the cap was first brought in. Back then, saving clubs from themselves was higher on the agenda, but we have to assume it was the clubs who wanted this safety net removing?

For starters how about cutting back on all those match day stewards that seem to have been "set on" under the OK regime? i'm told they get 30 quid a game, 30 less would 900 quid a game (please don't tell me we need them for health and safety reasons)

The merchandising is massive this season, lets hope the Bulls sell thousands of replica shirts. Maybe a deal with Asda to stock up with Bulls merchandise in all their stores in the Bradford area?

As for the playing staff, i really do we hope we do not lose any of the current squad, especially Sammut, didnt he recently tweet he was going no where?

Replied to someone with something along the lines of "I ain't walking out on Bradford mate" I think.

Wouldn't be the first or last time someone said words to that effect, then left a week later though.

I agree with the sentiments regarding the team. Losing Gale just isn't that big a deal except for some competition for places. Losing Sammut would be a big blow. (Purely from a team pov, nothing to do with the financials, which I appreciate are more important)

Yay! Let's get the begging buckets out again. That is a great idea.

I think the poster you quoted may have actually meant that the club should attempt to obtains additional sponsorship and/or investment to raise some cash, not a pledge MkII

Perhaps so, but did the board not say that, due to the current situation, they are finding it increasingly hard to attract sponsors?

Therefore, that idea will pretty much be a non-starter.

I don’t know if the Foxy Bingo promotion is still available?

All you had to do was deposit a tenner, the wife got thirty quid to play & you put in a promotional code for the club of your choice, which allegedly received fifty quid.

Apologies if you’ve already been down this route earlier in the year.

I would be concerned if the club shared the same pessimistic view as yourself. If something is "difficult", I wouldn't say it was a non-starter. It is what it is "difficult", lol.