It was a take it or leave it offer from the RFL forced on them by a majority of the other 13 clubs....... Don't take it and loose SL licence

as i said, the clubs short sighted madness. What did they expect from the outcome?

Maybe, but again, what would have happened if the RFL and the other clubs had refused?

Well, option 2 for the administrator was to allow the Super League (Europe) bid to go ahead.

Forgive me for not knowing every detail of this affair, are you saying that the other clubs would have taken over the Bulls?

That's why I don't really understand all the hate for the RFL. At least their actions went some way to ensuring that there was a team to support. The fact that that team is hamstrung by less central funding than the others is a consequence of the OFFER to forego the funding.



I watched Diamonds Are Forever yesterday. Blofelds all over the shop!!! (And I found out today that Marwan's got seven brothers. Spooky!)

100% incorrect. The requirement to submit to 1 years loss of distribution was sprung on them as a take-it-or-leave it option, at the last minute. The ONLY discussion that took place was they got the RFl to pay half money spread over 2 years. But they should never have agreed to it, better to have let the deal collapse than agree to it. As hindsight proves, although I don't seek to absolve in any way the calamitous mismanagement once they took over.

But it was never "offered".

Why? And who's idea was it?

That was basically the fall-back plan, yes, but only to keep the club going while some other orderly disposition came along. If one ever did. It sounded nuts to me, and no details were published. Maybe it was better than the alternative.

I see, thanks, that makes sense (as an explanation, not a solution!). I suppose it made some sort of sense at the time too to keep the club ticking over until, or if, a permanent take over could be arranged?

A majority of the 13 clubs voted for the proposal to allow the bulls to stay in SL was they had to forego 1 seasons central funding .... This was because of the unknown loan made by the RFL and subsequent purchase of Odsal. OK had to make an offer without SLStatus being a given right

Bradford Bulls caused their own downfall by continuing to sign expensive players they couldn't afford even AFTER they knew they had only half the Sky money. Egged on by the fans "We've room under the cap" "we've a quota place free now" etc etc.