It's a very bad situation for all parties but basically the RFL are doing what's best for the game, which as it stands screws bradford.

Andrew Glover bought Wakefield not knowing whether we would get a licence. He was willing to build a team whether it be in SL or Championship.

The way I see it, if the RFL don't buckle under the pressure, the stand off will continue until the end of the season when it will be established bradford will no longer be a super league team. At this point interest will cease and the bulls will liquidate.

If it was established the bulls would no longer be a super league team now, it would put their last games in jeapordy which would be a PR disaster that the RFL want to avoid.

Well, a gold star for him, then, but as the Bulls do not have any such bidder, WTF has that to do with anything? Or maybe you think telling the consortium they jolly well shouldn't be bothered would work?

I think that could be correct. Which is only one of many reasons I'm p!ssed off with the whole affair. The rfl might still have a problem though, the coaching staff have said the volunatary working won't last until the end of the season, and unless I'm mistaken the forwarded funds are/might be just for the playing staff. So the last games might not happen anyway without a deal either way.

You have every right to be p*ssed off, i would be in your shoes. It's just a bad situation for all involved but the rfl are simply doing (imo) what they see as best for the wider game.

I'm sure something will be sorted regarding coaching staff which will get your through the final games.

Whilst it’s been quoted that the consortium has offered £1.5m for the lease, does it say anywhere what the timescale is for the payment?

If they’re prepared to pay the full amount right now I can’t see a problem, however, if it’s a case of ‘’give us the lease back & we’ll pay on the never-never’’, well they’ve already been down that road.

So they are stringing them along and they don’t believe there is any chance they will survive? Those at the top of the RFL simply cannot sustain their position if they are lying to fans, players, suppliers, sponsors throughout the game to delay Bradfords liquidation until it is convenient. Pretending there is a chance a company could buy Bradford and keep them in SL so the administrator keeps them as a going concern would be a disgusting way to run a league.

There is nothing tricky about that, it is just wrong.

The RFL can pay the players wages until the end of the season, they own the lease to the home stadium.

There is nothing to say the RFL cannot have the club continue to run until the end if the year, paying the players themselves, playing out of a stadium they own, when we and potential investors know, that at best, next year Bradford will be a championship club

This is EXACTLY what Andrew Glover had to do at Wakefield.
The main difference being that his driving motive was to keep a rugby league club in the city and at the time stated, that if the club had to play CC rugby and fight its way back to the top flight, then he was prepared for that.
So at least the RFL are trying to be consistant.

Yes but, Glovers proposals were for the start of a new licensing period, Bradford are a third of the way into an existing one.

There are similarities, but not carbon copies.

If they'd come out and tell us who they are and what their plans for the club are I'd have less reason to be suspicious - but I think this mystery consortium are more interested in getting their hands on Super League money, as opposed to a Super League club. Possibly to enable them to pay for the lease of Odsal, which is what they really want to get out of this "takeover".