Want to be the new club accountant?

Not even an announcement of an 'Imminent Announcement'. It would be nice to be 'whelmed' just for once. I am not greedy, anything would do...even a 'Nige is just finishing his sticky toffee pud, then after the coffee, cheese, port, cigars and another round of sandwiches, we'll be with you'

Well a lot is made of Batley being part time and having a tiny budget. However they’re a club that’s spent a long time at this level and managed to attract the best part time talent. A lot of their players could go pro but have decent jobs so have chosen not to. A side cobbled together at the last minute will have the players nobody else wants.

The difference being with Batley is that although they may have only spent £300k and the new Bradford's budget is allegedly £400k, Batley had a lot longer to sort out the squad and cherry pick the best of the part time players. Especially since Sheffield had just got rid of a load of players who didn't want to go full time, of which Batley happily snapped up (likes of Dom Brambani & Patch Walker). Bradford could have £1m but they still only have the choice of whatever left from all the players other clubs don't want.


Edit: Bullseye largely beat me to that point...

A lot of pro players at this level are actually inferior to their part time counterparts. We struggled versus some part time teams last year (Fax, Dewsbury, Batley etc). Mind you a lot of that was down to our lack of halfbacks and the side not responding to Lowes.

Have we actually got new owners or did I dream that on Friday?

I will find out but it won't be until Wednesday, i do no all they players got £5k bonus for getting in to top 4.

Live press conference at 15.00 today on bulls new website

[url=http://www.clownsinternational.combradfordbulls.com[/url

I think that's right. Like many, when we got relegated I assumed that our full-time squad would be able to easily steamroller the part-time teams. It didn't exactly work out that way did it? Now that we've been in that league for a couple of years it's become apparent that there are lots of really decent players who simply don't want to give up their lucrative careers to take a punt on a full-time career in RL.

The big problem is that the upper echelon of Championship players are already signed up with Championship teams for 2017 and - one presumes - quite happy to stay with those teams.

That leaves us with a mixture of: the unwanted people from the current squad, people not good enough for other Championship teams, and loans from SL team (i.e unwanted players)

Is no one stationed outside Odsal to report any comings or goings. Thought they were meeting with players etc today?