Even now with all this going on Bradford still have more of a chance of being in SL at the start of next season than Fev, Fax, Leigh, Sheffield or any other championship club!

I don't think the truth of what has happened from start to finish will ever come out especially now it's turned into an argument between the Bulls and the RFL!

Like Nat says they should bite the bullet and drop down ready to rebuild from the bottom up. The Bulls fans won't like to hear it but this should and most likely will happen.

who is paying the players redundancy? Can you tupe a player to a company in liquidation? Who says Mr Lamb has 750k to pay the players if there is no money coming in? Who can even say if he will want to? Wo would say anyone would pay to see a team get 70/80points put on them?

We shouldn't think that will be so easy, as rangers are proving its very difficult to subsidise a team playing far below its level. If Ranger stutter again, the spfl is absolutely screwed

Diskin is hardly an independent voice. He's not going to call the prospective owners a basket case.

The game did not dig this hole. The hole has been dug by a catalogue of owners and prospective owners, the game being fans, clubs and the RFL have tried to help the Bulls, I'm sure had the game bent over and changed the rules for the Bradford team we would be looking at War between the clubs.

Changing the rules for one team would be undoubted bias.

They were shares in Gateshead, representing £250k's worth of investment when that club was formed. Gateshead, of course, became Hull and therefore SLE (who held the shares) ended up with a stake in Hull instead. They were "realised at an amount less than cost" in 2004 (according to the Leeds accounts where they appeared due to Leeds holding a 1/12 of the investment).

Had Moore and co actually taken control of the club or were they "in effect" just office staff running the club in the hope that they would be taking over at some point?

The administrator seems to still be having a big say in whats going on

Actually Bradford have dug themselves a very deep hole with a spade provided by the RFL, who should have kept well clear once their initial loan was swallowed by the Club's financial black hole. Since the start of this mess Bradford have had ample opportunity to try resolve things by 'cutting their cloth' but have merely bumbled along believing the hype of their 'iconicity'.

his comment was about the players attitude, I'm not sure an independant voice is better than his in this instance.

The game has dug itself a hole, it put in place the rules it made its decisions.

It is the RFL who passed a club, having spent weeks working with it, as fit and proper to start a season, two weeks in that same RFL declares the club to be undercapitalised and that it has no faith in the submitted business plans.

One of two things have happened here, either the RFL have put off a prospective owner who could have put Bradford back on track,

Or

They have allowed a club which they had no faith in, which had no money, which they knew needed more money to continue to operate to start a season the RFL weren't convinced they would finish.

If the RFL's statement is a clear and accurate representation of their view point and the facts of the matter, it is inconceivable that they have been allowed to start the season.

About as comprehensive evidence of what an awful idea it would be as you could hope for

the fact that if Bradford were playing in Champ 1 they'd get more on the gate than Fev in SL should highlight to every numpty wanting Fev in SL why it's a totally moronic idea.

Nobody. They are being made redundant and if the company has no funds with which to pay them, they won't get paid. Life sucks sometimes.
Probably not, but then they were TUPE'd to help facilitate an earlier attempt to paper of the cracks.
I very much doubt he has that much cash lying around.
It seems everyone wants Bradford for nothing, with no points deduction and could the RFL please hurry up with the Sky cash?....

Ask the fans at Clubs who have made the hard choices. London will get buried under a mountain of points this year and Wakefield won't be far ahead of us, but at least we've accepted the fact that living beyond your means can't continue indefinitely.

As for the competition as a whole? If Bradford do go into liquidation, then the clubs they have played up to that point have their results taken away (not everyone can be placated here), we have 26 rounds and Magic weekend is a 9's tournament.

I still say Bradford can see out this season, but they need to shed everything they don't need now and if that means players taking a wage cut or being shown the door, then so be it. As for the back office employees of the club....it sucks, but life isn't always fair.