That is just life though.

Don't send the dad to jail for fraud, his kids and family will miss him and suffer.

The fans are......just collateral damage.

My sympathy wanes dramatically when some of their fans now almost have the attitude it's the RFL's fault and that they have an obligation to accept the consortium's bid for the bulls.

The RFL have gone above and beyond the help the bulls. The bulls have recieved special treatment IMO.

You stick a salford in that situation and the RFL would have let them rot. There'd be no advancing of payments, of helping out with the ground. They'd have been thrown to the dogs.

It's just prolonging the agony. We all know how this will end. Endgame will happen after the bulls fulfill their fixtures.

Theres still some hope with this other bid apart from abc. But i'm not sure they'll have the financial clout once they go over the numbers fully.

So the bulls will be able to complete their fixtures, reducing the impact on the rest of the competition and then will liquidate at seasons end when all options have been exhausted. Most likely then a team from the championship will be admitted in their place.

The bulls will then need to 'somejow' start up again and go into the championship.

Come on, a reality check is needed. If the bulls liquidate and they manage to start a new club in the championship theres no way they'll be getting 10k.

-They will lose thousands of fans who have been dissalusioned with the whole debacle
- They have dirt cheap season tickets at the moment. So fans will end up having to pay more for championship rugby. That will shave a few k off.
- Then you have fans that will feel no affiliation with the 'newco' as it will be seen as a different entity.
-What stadium will they be playing at? if it's not odsal that could affect it as well, remember their attendances dropped when they moved to valley parade and they were good then.

All in all you could expect to half that figure.

and that's a assuming a newco will be setup for next season in the event of liquidation. No easy task.

People just seem to assume it will magically rise from the ashes. But you'd need someone to invest heavily to begin with to start the thing up. You'd need all the infastructure putting in place again you'd need to get all the staff employed and somehow assemble a squad of players. Then they'd need to arrange where they play. Could a championship club afford to play at odsal?

Peopl talk about the fans doing. The fans aren't rich and they have jobs.

I think most Bulls fans accept that. It wouldnt be unfair for the RFL to announce today that they have revoked our license.

But if they're going to do that they should do it now. They've seen the books, the've seen the offer by ABC. There's no reason why they cannot announce their decision on the existing license today. And I've not heard any Bulls fans suggest that they should do more than revoke or continue the existing license.

The thing that does seem unfair is that they will delay that decision for two months. String the club and potential investors along in order to complete the season and then expel the club. Or expect prospective buyers to commit to the club without announcing what the full punishment will be for 2 months. I think the saying is "justice delayed is justice denied".

I see where you're coming from the but the rfl are simply acting in the best interests of the competiition and that is for bradford to complete the fuxtures. I know it sucks what is going to happen at the end of the season but it is what it is.

The thing is clubs vote on it. I know everyone says ''well the rfl have the power to veto'', yeah they have the power, but it doesn't mean they will exercise that muscle. The RFL will back what the majority of clubs decide IMO.

Why not ? A Scottish football club with a ~50,000 fan base will be playing in the 3rd Division next season under similar circumstances. It's called integrity.

There are some comparisons to be made between the situations of Rangers and the Bulls, but also some major differences.

Rangers' return to the SPL is virtually assured (assuming it still exists when they get there). They will comfortably outspend their rivals in a league without salary caps and then be automatically promoted at the end of each season. They expect to make significant profits in the process. The financial risk to their new owners is very limited. The same cannot be said of the Bulls.

Interesting theory about financial risk.
Their drop in income will be of meteoric compared to the Bulls.
If the bulls were to drop down a division the woould (in theory) be a large fish in a small pond and for the same reasons that you use to say Rangers would regain top flight status, then the same would apply to the Bulls.
The main differnce is the salary cap in the CC and the dreaded franchise system that we have in league and this does complicate the situation. However a new Bulls should be strong enough to compete at the top end of the CC and become no 1 contenders for "promotion".
Having said that, at the begining of the current franchise period, all clubs were warned about their financial conduct and adhering to the various promises that were made to the RFL and although, at the time, this seemed to be pointing towards Cas and Wakefield, there was the threat of expulsion from SL.
Once again the rules are being tested (just as they were when Wigan drove a bus through the salary cap a few seasons ago and we wait to see what the outcome is this time.