And all clubs in admin. had 50% of their Sky money withheld and redistributed didn't they. My search engine is bust, couldn't find the links to that.

Really ticks me off when other clubs & supporters talk about fairness from a moral high ground, when it's clear to me the RFL are punishing us to an extra degree because Hood pulled the wool over their eyes twice in less than 6 months.

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Anything on the unsubstantiated £1m yet?

Why did Moore & Co set up BB2014 if they had any genuine intention of purchasing OK Bulls? Let's not forget the directors of BB2014 had allegedly agreed a purchase of OK Bulls from Omar Khan, they joined as directors of the company, and then didn't proceed with the purchase upon learning of financial issues that miraculously Ryan Whitcut knew nothing about.

BB2014 them moved to buy OK Bulls from the administrator. The offer accepted by the administrator was only going to pay off what SSG was owed through it's debenture.

Agreement to purchase from the administrator, whose sole purpose is to act on behalf of creditors, was no guarantee of acceptance by the RFL to run the business going forward.

There were no other bidders or interested parties at the time, so in order to allow them to come forward, a temporary licence was given to BB2014 who, if not outbid within one month, and subject to business plan approval would become the new owners.

The administrator was prepared to accept the existing bb2014 purchase offer. After detailed discussions, the RFL didn't accept the business plan & forecasts of BB2014. BB2014 then withdrew their offer to purchase the assets from the administrator. They did this on the 24th February. The RFL then imposed a points deduction on 25th February.

Those are the facts. Anything else is hearsay and supposition.

It is a possibility but I can's see the RFL setting out to doom one of the bigger clubs in the game - it doesn't make sense. I know you're on your collective backsides at the minute, but Bradford Bulls is still one of the most recognisable brands in Super League - maybe 4th after Wigan, Leeds and Saints.

On a side note - does mozzarella have holes in it?

OK Bulls actually received the full allocation of Sky money in 2013. It got the same as every other club. The original plan was 50% over the two remaining years of the licence, with it all to be paid in the second year.

Omar Khan asked for the Sky money to be advanced so the amount of money that was scheduled for year 2, which was in effect one full years money, was handed over in year 1.

The truth is that OK Bulls had the same money as every other club, but still went under because it was so badly run by Khan & Whitcut.

Agree with that, the start of our demise was player recruitment in 2004, coupled with drop in crowds and revenue, then accelerated by Harrisgate. We needed a strong leader in 2007 to plot a course which kept us competitive but addressed the implications of Harris, which would have not had MacNamara as coach for as long as he was. Imagine how different it could have looked with someone like Potter at the helm from 2009, with the Harris finances settled and accounted for, full funding for budgets and a great crop of youngsters coming through. Makes me want to weep/want to tear some people limb from limb with where we are now. Hood's weakness and Caisley's sniping from the sidelines are where we lost the chance to rescue it.

Wouldn't disagree about how the club was run as OKBulls, enough clear evidence of that, BUT, the decision to grant them a license stipulated 50% Sky funding for 2013 and 2014, are you saying they persuaded the RFL to give full funding in 2013? That would mean 2014 zero funding right? If the RFL agreed to that, I'd love to see the business plan that that convinced them to do it

That's simply not true. 2013, the other clubs took the Bulls Sky money to the tune of about £1 million.

You can look it up.

The questions are many, and many of them are aimed at finding out amongst other things whether they did or they didn't. Maybe they did. If they did, then we may find out the reasons eventually, or we may not, but I don't think your question progresses anything, since while plenty of suggestions and claims have been widely made, but nobody on here is the RFL and ultimately only they could answer it.

Yep, if that's what the independent panel says - or are you the paranoid one and they have got it in for you and your the paranoid one - think about it and the point I was replying to

Q. What goes, clip clop clip clop bang bang clippety clop clippety clop clippety clop?
A. A drive-by shooting in Wakefield.