6 Point Deduction / board walks

Quote: Bullseye "Some people think the Bulls could be run sustainably in the Championship. In an ideal world that’s a possibility but things at the moment make that possibility very unlikely IMO.

Someone would have to take on the current basket case with all the creditors and conditions imposed by the RFL (unless they had the money to settle everything immediately which is about as unlikely as it gets). They’d have to finance the rest of the SL campaign which if it led to relegation even with a parachute payment means a totally new set of circumstances.

The club is tied into Odsal until 2017. Could it afford the rent and the maintenance required given the fact that income would drop massively? Odsal is a huge financial millstone and has been one of the many reasons the SL club has ended up where it is. It costs a fortune to maintain and doesn’t have the facilities to attract sponsors or keep fans in comfort. Iconic it may have been in 1954 but less so now.

It’s a fact of life that if the club played in the Championship fans would drift away, it’s happened to all clubs that have been relegated.

The club had 324 paying spectators when it went bust from the bottom of the RL in 1963. That was in an era when there was less competition for people’s leisure time. Nowadays I think the club would head for oblivion much quicker. Fact is that professional RL in Bradford isn’t sustainable at any level while we’re at Odsal IMO. However, a move to VP wouldn’t solve anything given that the last time this happened crowds dropped by the thousands and that was in our most successful era. What the club needs is a modern ground along the lines of the Halliwell Jones in the south Bradford area. It’ll never happen though (it nearly did in 2001/2 but that’s another story, thanks to Stephen Byers).

99% of RL clubs make losses and aren’t sustainable. All the successful clubs rely on a big money backer prepared to make a loss and have a nice fancy new ground with low running costs and nice corporate facilities. See Hudders, Warrington, St Helens, Hull, Wigan etc. Only Leeds make a profit, and that’s by virtue of the fact that they are in Leeds and have had the security of Paul Caddick guaranteeing their million pound debts debts while they put a plan in place back in 97/98. How we could do with a Caddick now.

Lamb may talk a good game but unless he’s got money to burn I suspect it’ll end in tears or not even get off the ground.

The whole saga has left a bad taste. Successive club owners have lied to the fans. The club had been mismanaged from about 2002/3 with Odsal bleeding the club dry, add to that the Harris saga, then the disastrous period of McNamara in charge leading to the club’s fortunes on the field declining despite spending the full cap, all against a backdrop of the economic downturn.

The deal for the RFL to get the Odsal lease as payment for a massive loan shows what a state the club was in by 2012. How did the RFL think they could get away with that? The subsequent vote to deprive the club of TV money as a punishment made the newclub a basket case from day 1 last year. Only an idiot would’ve taken the club on and OK did and it was a predictable end. No SL club was sustainable on half the money and that remains the case.

Meanwhile we have narcissistic, self-aggrandising “fans” of other clubs holding forth on here like their clubs are holier than thou when they’ve all had similar troubles at their clubs or would if the sugar daddies departed. It just shows what a parochial, selfish, tinpot sport RL in England is.'"