As much as I don't believe the RFL are much use, you also have to take these things with a pinch of salt.

You don't know how much of this is genuine truth and how much is just a bit of bitterness that they didn't get what they want. It has a slight air of a child doing the "You bought my brother a present and not me because you love him more than I do!!!!" when it's actually the other kid's birthday.

Not saying there isn't some (or a lot) of truth to what they're saying, but I'd also bear in mind they're quite bitter about losing at the moment.

If Thorne is telling the truth then they actually withdrew their offer rather than be rejected. So that might remove the 'sour grapes' aspect of the article.

But it's not even just this Bradford debacle either. The RFL lost over £100,000 recently with the cancelled England training camp thing. And it's too late to rearrange fixtures now, so there's going to be two hectic weekends with loads of fixtures crammed together, and then one weekend with sod all rugby being played but no overseas training camp for the England squad!

The T&A report says that Chalmers and Lowe were in cahoots with the Leo Group in their original. I think that's new information (if true, of course)

IF it turns out that the new owners are still working with the Leo Group then this **could ** all turn out well in the end - which, given everything, would be a miracle...

Sam64 did post somewhere a quote from Sawrij saying he's thankful for the help of CBMDC for helping the deal get through...maybe it's still on the table but hey this is Bradford, our shiny shopping centre took ten years and was downsized before it was actually delivered?

He also may feel slighted that his backdoor attempt to steal the club from the administrators after the RFL had already asked for applications for a new club was rejected.

I'm not saying all not true, just bear in mind sometimes two sides to a story and I tend to be weary of people slagging off an organisation that has essentially just rejected their offer.

As if! Come on you've been around long enough to know that good things don't happen.

I think we are in for another tedious wait today until Chalmers and Lowe are crowned at Odsal..

The Leo group involved would make the ground development a lot more likely and would be a dream come true in that respect.

Money and past business dealings in NZ aside, These two guys are actually successful Rugby League men that will def know what they are doing when it comes to creating a professional structure and improving the playing department no end.
According to Lance and others the setup under Ferres, Lowes and green was laughable and poorly run, I think these guys should be the polar opposite.

If there is investment cash wise behind these two I think we have the best deal, I may turn out to be way off the mark.

What has annoyed me a little not on here but on facebook and twitter is people sat at home in their average mundane day to day life dragging up business pasts of people aiming to take the club forward and posting it all over social media.
These guys have nothing to gain in my view by starting a "new" Bradford club other than wanting to build a successful club.
Again I may be proved wrong on all fronts, give them a chance and see where we end up.
Publicly slating them on social media is all kinds of wrong especially when you don't know what deal is on the table, what is to be invested in and what the future holds.

Well, yes... this is the Bulls after all. And Bradford. And the RFL



I'll go back to my usual state of mind

I feel for the players and staff they have been through enough...however I hope they now realise that actually if they stick together as a group they have the new owners and in particular the RFL over a barrel with 3 weeks to season...I appreciate this is peoples lives and mortgages and its easy to say for me however as a group they have a very strong negociating postion, I hope they have a smart representative someone like Richard Cramer?

Yeah that would be great for the club going forward if they made the deal even harder by been greedy.
Maybe then we could afford less playing staff and struggle even more as the season goes on top idea that man.

No one is saying be greedy, the RFL have been negligent for too long, why should the players and staff pay the price...the new owners and RFL will look to divide and conquer!

That's if they stay together as a group. I would expect their agents to be looking at deals elsewhere if the offer made by the new owner isn't good enough.