I think they're getting all the crappy jobs out of the way now as much as possible. Hence the torrent of bad news (apart from the Pryce and Mendieka re-signings).

My theory is we're being run on shoestring until the ground sale is sorted out. That could take months, years, decades or may never happen.

Ah right I see what you are saying now! In terms of Smith I think the owners already had their coach in mind. Someone to build their club around. If I was a new owner, I'd want my guy in there as well. Looking at the record of Rohan last year it makes sense if they can get a Brian McClennan on board. Personally I would have liked to have seen Rohan in the role but if it turns out be a shrewd appointment tomorrow then I will be excited.

In terms of players declining contracts, no, I don't think the new owners are prying on the players current situation. I think it is just a simple case of evaluating how much a player is worth. For example (figures made up), Kavanagh was on £60,000 a year last year. New owners come in and evaluate that he is a prop who got us to 5th in the Championship. As a new business we can't afford to be paying that and performances last season don't warrant you earning that much in a year so we will offer you £40,000 a year. Kavanagh declines and finds a deal worth more than £40,000. I don't necessarily think it's taking advantage of the situation but rather a genuine cost cutting deal.

Where will you find one of them in Bradford.

We can always steal them from Halifax and Huddersfield. It's what we do. Apparently.

Agree with you about Halafihi. Given so little opportunity that he tried too hard.

We don't know yet how they deal with things. Wait till they have been here a while not just the last few mad days.
How does anyone know if we are in good hands. The last three owners ended in administration.
Again, lets wait and see.
The big difference here is that these owners are clearly far more experienced businessmen and they probably won't mess about letting emotion making decisions.

And yes, I do think players should have been told privately and am disappointed but we may have to get used to decisions now being made that we don't agree with.

And that is all we can do now F.A.

You are clearly a long time Northern / Bulls fan like myself and greatly frustrated and angered at what has gone on. We don't really know what their plan is. He even stated on the radio yesterday that they can't tell fans the detail yet. I would love them to tell all right now but my experience with businessmen and owners of businesses is that they keep things very close to their chest.
All I can do is prey that these two will do things properly from now on even though that means they do it their way without asking us if it is OK. As someone else said. the new coach is key. That will tell us how serious they are this season. Big couple of weeks ahead.
FA, put your feet up, have a drink and hope it all works out - then get yourself up to Odsal and cheer on the lads.

Too true. Let the kids in and bring back the bouncy castle, forget about the responsible adult bit.

This forum has had an awful lot of new members since admin 3. Most (if not all) of which are extremely negative.

Very strange.....

Chisholm signed for Sheffield according to their Twitter.

Says it's not for Financial reasons but because he wants to win things. Obviously last years shield win was not enough. It will be interesting to see how the Eagles go playing at Wakey.

I can't believe this has been allowed to happen. It shows how far we have fallen.

I'm pretty gutted about this. And although I should be glad we have a club, full of promising kids, yadda yadda....

But there's a small nagging voice in the back of my head suggesting that if this season goes as well as we're imagining; with huge defeats (and magnificent games from all the players who we had on the books last year against us) no signings of note, and humiliations aplenty that instead of dragging this lame old mutt up for the sake of walking the dog, we should have just left it to die.