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The club needs £1 million in order to continue to operate. They're asking for every supporter to donate £100.

So it looks like there may well be an opening in SL for a new club.

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Hope they can get sorted out!

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Holy sheet! That's about as serious as it gets, basically begging, cap in hand from their fans. Hope they make it, Rugby League wouldn't seem right without Bradford.

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SL just keeps getting better and better, a 10 team SL now looks increasingly more likely

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Quote: Starbug "SL just keeps getting better and better, a 10 team SL now looks increasingly more likely'"


Just think, in the days before Super League, it was effectively a one-team competition ...

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Speaking form a personal experience it’s an awful place for a club to be in. Trinity managed to raise approx. £25K of the half a million they needed to stave off the HMRC last year so it’s a tall order. The plus side for Bradford is that they have more fans and also 10000 season ticket holders who have probably saved £100 which could go towards the cause. Hopefully they get it sorted, if not, possibly administration may be the ‘best’ option, it has breathed a new life into Wakefield and perhaps it could do the same to Bradford.

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I'm sure Warrington will offer 200K for that sheila in the 2nd row, Bateman? He'll be a looker in Smiths.

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Quote: Mintball "Just think, in the days before Super League, it was effectively a one-team competition ...'"


Yes it was, and what happened to them as a result? Fairly sure they were on the verge of bancruptsy and had to sell their stadium, nothing changes except the name of the club, and I include my own in this

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Holy Hell - that's a bolt from the blue! icon_eek.gif

I can't understand how the entire proceeds from the sale of Odsal appears to have been eaten up in repaying a loan to the RFL when both the RFL and the Bradford BOD stated that it was to secure the future of the club? Surely some questions to be asked there!

Hope a rescue plan can be put in place to save the Bulls, but it doesn't look too likely at the moment. icon_sad.gif

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I hope the Bulls fans who were wishing our down fall last year feel good now, with the boot on the other foot will be interesting to see what the RFL do here, as they have obviously already helped with buying the lease (even though your owner said it had nothing to do with financial trouble) which is more than they did for us so how far will they go? The writing was already on the wall in Jan that all was not well!

It looks like Admin awaits, wipe off the debt, start again but also have your best players raided.

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Quote: Kosh "Holy Hell - that's a bolt from the blue!
It was to ' secure the future of the club at Odsal ' , it didnt state in which competition

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Quote: wakeytom "I hope the Bulls fans who were wishing our down fall last year feel good now'"


You've just proved you're no better.

You do have to question how a club the size of Bradford can get into such a mess. It's often down to bad management as it was when my club was in trouble and others.

Here's hoping it is. They won't necessarily prove unviable, just in need of new ownership which is a different challenge for the club.

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Looks like they'll have to sell off a few players. Tom Burgess, Elliott Whitehead, Bateman... Can't see the club keeping hold of these if they need to raise money.

We'll take Burgess...

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This is all from a club which was one of the concrete "big four" not long back. A spectacular fall from grace and not one which is healthy for our game or good for any club.

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Quote: Chris Dalton "You've just proved you're no better.

You do have to question how a club the size of Bradford can get into such a mess. It's often down to bad management as it was when my club was in trouble and others.

Here's hoping it is. They won't necessarily prove unviable, just in need of new ownership which is a different challenge for the club.'"


I am not saying I am, I just remember been in this position last year and lots of people saying this and that, and again when we gained our licence it was merely a throw away comment.

As a side note if they do not go in to admin will this still be taken in to account when discussing the licences as even though it was not one of the factors this time when the RFL commented on us gaining a position they still said they had to comment on the situation

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