How on earth did he convince the rfl to award a B grade license? Makes me wonder just how bad Fax's application must have been?!

I guess the hope is we get a club to watch by the end of April.

YOU were the individual who consistently and regularly derided any of us who tried to explain how serious the financial situation was.

So don't you BLOODY WELL DARE come on here now tellling people you told them so. You did no such thing.

You derided those who actually knew a bit more about it than you did.

Does that date suggest that there's a tax bill behind this sudden crisis?

I really hope you can pull through this.

Feel for you guys right now. This is shocking how it has been allowed to happen. Some people at the top knew about this and have said or done nothing. Good luck.

That is pretty well it, I guess.

sorry state of affairs.

A rugby club. Nothing in life is free.

Judging by reactions from Bradford fans it seems to come out of the blue? Which then lends itself to certain questions.

I am not a Bradford fan, but like Wakefield i dont want to see any RL team forced to fold, let alone the embarrasment of having to fold mid season! Bradford were the kings of SL not so long ago, far too much history for this to happen.

Asking the fans to bail them out really is poor. What do you get for your £100? I am sorry, but id want something in return, a % share? id be giving MORE money to the club...for what? For my club i buy my pass, merchandise, club lottery etc, for more money id want either something on record so that the next season pass i buy i get my £100 off? But having read someone has bought one and has 3 1/2 years left! where is that money and what do they get!? 2 free shirts next season?? (presuming there is a next season?) To find that amount of cash in that short a time cant surely have been a decision given yesterday??

Whilst im sure your happy the club have commented, its not really that informative apart from them asking for your money.

I hope you do pull through! going into admin though didnt do Wakey too much harm, they have been able to rebuild with a clean slate.

F**k.

The board should call an extraordinary general meeting and resign. The sooner the club go into administration the sooner we are protected from creditors, the sooner a buyer can do a deal with the administrator and the less chance of the adminstrator selling the players. This would give the club a stay of execution. It's a disaster but nothing to what could genuinely happen. The chances of the RFL not giving the new board a franchise is precisley zero.

For a board member to stay in post stating that if we don't get £500 000 by April 6th we are bankrupt and there is no club is Russian roulette. It smacks of clinging onto a position at the dire risk of the club not existing. It's disgusting quite frankly.

Rather than begging fans for donations, I would be happy for them to make the Leeds home game all ticket only. No season tickets. £20 a ticket with no concessions and ask fans to turn up to support the club as possible last game at Odsal. 20k loyal fans = £400k

Is be happy to pay to see it.

The only even vaguely good thing about that Bulls release I copyed, is that it is just a pledge, so if the club goes pop anyway you won't be out of pocket. The only way you're out of pocket is if the club succeed in raising the cash they need.

My concern would be that I have no confidence that this would be the end of it. We could be back here again in six months even if we do raise the 500k. What happens over the coming winter when there is no cash flow? Do we actually have robust plans in place?

That said, I have pledged my £100, it might be a long shot, but I see no alternative. Wait for saviour? Don't think so, hope the club gets reformed out of administration? An equally long shot. Do nothing and just sit and whinge? Tempting but not ing likely.

Not just Fax's application but the 5 teams in Superleague who were awarded a Grade C license. Infact it just shows what a farce the Superleague licensing system is.

I do feel sorry for the fans who are being asked to fork out their hard earned cash. If I were a Bradford Bulls fan I would not trust any of the Bulls board as far as I could throw them.