Quote Ferocious Aardvark="Ferocious Aardvark"The direct opposite is the case, it is precisely because the system IS such a farce that we are where we are.
It would help if people didn't keep trotting out the phrase about mythical sanctions "for a club going into administration" when we know 100% that the decision (in the case of brand new ownership) is directly based NOT simply on the mere fact of an insolvency event, but critically on the new owner's proposals for dealing with the failed company's creditors, and it was exactly and publicly that basis on which the Bulls decision was made and announced by the RFL.
If in real life there was a clear and certain penalty simply "for going into administration" then we wouldn't be here, now would we? So can we put this myth to bed at last?'"
Rubbish. The current system is not a farce. I agree with cravenpark1
There is a standard points deduction penalty for a Club going into Administration of three wins (ie 6 points deduction in SL and 9 points deduction in the Championships).
The RFL may commute some or all of the points deduction sanction depending on how the Club comes out of Administration. It depends on the extent to which (if at all) the old creditors are paid off as a result of the way in which the Club comes out of Administration.
In the cases of Crusaders and Wakefield in the past, a proportion of old creditors were paid off resulting in the RFL announcing a reduced sanction of 4 points deduction.
In the case of Bradford, the most recent 6 point deduction was announced when it became clear to the RFL how much of the old creditors were to be paid off following the Administrator agreeing to sell the Club to new owners.
Those proposed new owners then walked away. So Bradford now has a different new owner. Hence the current appeal. As part of that appeal, the RFL wil be assessing the extent to which (if at all) the old creditors were paid off as a result of how (and for how much) the Administrator sold the Club to the (new) new owner.
