In the context of your original statement it was phrased absolutely correctly, but you needed to pad out your list so you did. Its not important As you are someone who clearly wants to be quite strict on grammar and the structure of sentences I would like to ask…..

In the meantime of what? The meantime defines the intervening period between two events. Which two events are you talking about? This can be very confusing because you haven’t actually introduced two events to the argument.

Can they get 8k+ crowds, can they pay full salary cap and still be financially sustainable, can they put a competitive team out without weakening les cats? If they can achieve those three things I'd love to see Toulouse in SL.

I think people are forgetting that if Bradford drop out of SL, there will be a full team of SL level players looking for a new club. If they drop out, the team that replaces them will be mostly Bradford players anyway. The only defining factors left would be stadia, financial standing and crowds which can only point to Halifax. Expanding RL is not what should be top of the list at this juncture. After all that has happened financial stability should.

I still think the safest option will be to keep Bradford with a clean slate and more stringent financial audits.

Toulouse is about 100miles from Perpignan, there would be next to no impact. They would be in competition for players, but im not sure that’s a bad thing.
Toulouse is a big city with a market of 1.2m to go at, and apparently, or so I have been told, they have good links with local businesses and sponsorship wouldn’t be one of their problems.

As for could the immediately get 8k, and spend the SC straight away, who could possibly know until they did it.

obviously Toulouse in 2015 will be a french/english/antipodean mix - french players are coming through, don't write them off just yet

Toulouse in SL next season to replace the Bulls is unrealistic so Fax will step up but i'm sure Bulls will still be in SL so the idea of TO or Fax in SL is irrevevant anyway

If the Bulls are still in SL next year then that's it for me. I will no longer support RL until the numpties at Red Hall are out.

Can you see the irony in your post and your username ?

Yes I can. It wasn't lost on me but that is how I feel about all of this (just been a bit melodramatic). TBH I probably will still support my team but won't be attending any RL events anymore. All of this has left a bitter taste and as the dark-side's chairman pointed out, 'We need a root and Branch restructure of the RFL' This whole situation has brought the game into disrepute since March and no doubt the Bulls will probably still be in SL next year along with most of the players they have now as if nothing had happened. Any team who allows this to happen to them and allows RL's name to be dragged through the mud like it has, needs to be punished (and not just a measly 6 point deduction). The RFL need to grow a set and stamp their authority on the game!!

yeah, it's always the fault of the RFL !

as a neutral RL fan ...why punish the faithful Bulls fans ?

I for one hope the Bulls survive in SL with new investors - they are still the best bet by far to play in SL as no other club is worthy of the position at this time - I hope they manage the play-offs and give their long suffering fans something to cheer about, good luck Bulls

just be thankful it's not HKR who are in the merde...

Stamp their authority on the game and kick out one of the top supported clubs in the league which struggles for support as a whole, and bring in another team that has no proven track record of running a club in SL?

I understand that people are unhappy, but anyone who thinks that Bradford will just go back to how they were after this is kidding themselves. Bradford will be a very much trimmed club come next season whether they stay in SL or not.

Valid points, however, long suffering?

In the great scheme of things it’s only two minutes since they were winning G.F’s & C.C’s.

They’re just going off like their long suffering, they don’t know the meaning of the word

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I do feel sorry for the Bulls fans but this doesn't take away what the Bulls club has done. If it was HKR in trouble the RFL would have let them go down the toilet long ago. The only reason they are doing this for the Bulls is because for some reason they see them as a big club. They once were a big club like a lot of clubs but over the last 5 or 6 years they have been on a par with the likes of HKR , Wakey and Cas. They weren't getting decent crowds either over the past few seasons until their ill fated season ticket giveaway.

SL wouldn't lose out if Bradford wasn't in it. The game would move on and quite easily survive.