A lot of predators circulating for Kopczak also! Big interest from the rumours going round

To be honest all our players are going to be subjected to moves away from Bradford because we are club on the brink. But on the brink does not mean at the bottom yet just lets hope for postive news in the coming weeks. We all know selling players is the last and only resort

this could be a bit of digging by Hood to see who is is willing to pay and how much and to get a responce from CC

At the moment we are a mid table club performing quite well in the face of adversity on several fronts. Start selling our best players and where will we be, scrapping for bottom place or worse? Who will want to invest in a Team without potential?

Out of interest - can Hood sell Bateman given that the EGM is official? Would he not need to get approval for the sale form the other shareholders in the short term - or would Caisley be "happy" with the sale so everything lays at Hoods door and Caisley's first act is to state nobody else is for sale and previous sales were done by the old chair, where he had no control, stating if he had control, he would not of allowed this to happen....etc, blah, etc, blah

Sounds like the perfect crime to me..............

Out of interest do we know where the club is in its quest for the second £1/2m, has it just stalled? I know fans are still doing bits James@odsal for one!

That's an interesting point Badger because it could easily be exactly the opposite. It could be Hood saying that Bateman is not for sale and if Caisley comes back then the onus will be on him not to sell. My feelings are that Hood will not sell, whilst making sure everyone is aware of the offers and then if CC comes back then he will have to make that decision, which if it is not the one the fans want, will immediately turn them against him and the Atkins/Bridge scenario will be brought out again, probably quite rightly.

Mick, if £250k saves the Club, then I'm sure the Bulls' fans would be prepared to raise that amongst themselves (again) rather than go into admin or sell Bateman. Going into admin would, I understand, lead to the sale of players on the cheap - catastrophic for us.
What about the Board launching a £ for £ investment arrangement between fans and investor. Get an interested party to invest £500k on condition that the fans raise another £500k. Surely an interested party would find a £1 million fund (from a committed fan base)attractive for a £500k investment. Conversely, would Bulls fans want to raise (again) £500k if they knew an investor would match it? I'd want to pledge again.

PS Bateman was advised to hold on until next year before re-negotiating his contract which is only sensible.

Having just given more than I could afford to something that was sold and heavily implied to be precisely that situation then they wouldn't get another penny out of me.

Must admit, im quite suprised we have made a bid after im sure i read something Tony Smith saying that he wasnt into taking advantage of a club in difficulty, im sure around the time Wakey were having issues.

What i would say though, if it wasnt for Wire selling Scuthorpe and Harris years ago, it was very possible the Warrington would not be in exsistance!! Needs must when clubs are in such a postion.......

Guess time will tell.....

That's the key point. Personally I hope Bateman stays with the Bulls - Wire have plenty of young back-row talent anyway. It remains a fact that selling Scully and Harris kept Wire in business, though, which I guess is why it might happen at Bradford.

Well we do know there was a bid in the past before any of this came up, and there's nothing there saying the other bid wasn't an improved offer at some other time before any of this came up.

vbfg, the last pledge was more of getting out of the clarts. This would be putting the Club on a prosperous financial footing and would help to ring-fence our young talent - too much of which is already in the other team's colours.

Fair enough, Smith strikes me as a man of his word, so would be logical, but who knows what goes on behind closed doors.........

I think he's a great prospect, and hope he stays with you guys, but if he did come to us obviously that would be a great signing for us.