I'll need a lot of vodka to swallow that. Then again, once this season tickets expired I am done. All enjoyment of RL has been finally destroyed this year....

Right, back to the IOM TT. Go Dean Harrison!!!!! A rare Bradford success story.

Meanwhile what? Do we go and watch a doomed team head for relegation? If there is a plan behind the scenes it makes this season rather academic. If no big changes come until 2019 it makes next year academic too. Is Marwan or whoever likely to want to keep us above water in C1 playing in front of 500 fans?

Would he want to subsidise a team shorn of any remaining talent, in a money pit stadium, with most fans walking away (when he's p1ssed at the Salford attendances) with a mountain to climb to get any good will back?

He was my maths lecturer at Liverpool Poly and he's not bad at the old adding up malarky he'l know the only way to save the place would be to do a Toronto in L1. No-one wanted to throw that kind of cash at us in SL. I'd seriously doubt there's now a volunteer to do it in the Chip Shop league.

Unless of course the lease will pass to Koukash's name....

The land & the lease are both supposed to have significant value. Estimates of value have not been made public yet I don't think. But obviously the RFL and the council both want part of the windfall. And neither seem keen to put in the cash primer needed to release the value. The mythical 3rd partner would obviously want a return on his cash as well. And those percentages I would assume are the sticking point.
Bradford Bulls are merely an afterthought.

If the merger went ahaed we could have the Brad from Bradford and the Ford from Salford and call ourselves BradFord

Genius!

Our neighbors wouldn't like it - how would they cope changing the FUD to Ford? it would take an enormous amount of campaigning to attract the fans existing and recently left and for the parochial traditionalists to recognize our new club as a separate entity!

Worst part of a merger would mean we'd have to stop taking the pee out of the Huddersfield-Sheffield Giants. That's been one of our best weapons over the last 20 years and it would be blunted.

What if it went the other way though and we had the Sal from Salford and the Ford from Bradford? It would be a real ta to be called SalFord

If no-one was looking, could we pick up the AJ Bell stadium and plonk it down at Odsal at the same time?

But it wouldn't matter because then nobody would go.

When people ask about the owners willingness to spend and people ask what forwards are available, Hull KR just signed Lee Jewitt very good signing for them

Apparently Chris Bridge is due to retire at the end of the year because he is struggling with injuries. Presumably he will be our first signing for next year then.

It might prove difficult getting quality players to sign up to the cause. I would imagine playing for Bradford is no longer an attractive proposition for a good player with no baggage. KR on the other hand are most definitely challenging for super league status and will most likely achieve it by the end of the middle eights.

Slightly off topic I know, but coming up to close of play on Wednesday and still no word on Chisholm. I find it very hard to believe they still don't know the extent of his injury, which makes me fear even more that the Fax fan claiming he's out for the season was actually right