That's because that is a truism, the vast majority of clubs can't be favourites and 2 or 3 are favourites, leaving 75-80% of clubs not being favourites (the big majority)

I wan't to see the governing body of the sport I love act with impartiality, integrity and consistency. I want them to do this in the interest of fairness and because I want my faith in the sport, which has been diminished by events over the last few years, to be restored.

I pity you that you judge people by such a low standard that your default is to accuse them of being so shallow, I wonder what sort of person you must be in the real world.

Be right back, going into administration as don't have enough money.

Be right back, not cutting cloth accordingly regarding the squad.

The bulls need to be held accountable.

They know that as long as their on field performance is in order, their off field dogs dinner is of little consequence as the RFL will find a way to make it work.

Bradford making a mess of thigns by virtue of on field performance would be the one thing the RFL couldn't squirm out of.

Hence no cloth cutting.

Wakefield fans should be screaming bloody murder.

Regardless now of the outcome of this entire saga the ''bulls brand'' has done untold damage to it's own reputation as an entity as well as that of the wider game. It's unlikely they will ever fully recover, and frankly, the sooner they a brushed under the carpet, the better.

are really expecting me to have sympathy for a company which could survive without reneging on its debts, surviving and not reneging on its debts? Im not sure why you think Wakefield have done a good thing here, they have done exactly what they are supposed to do, they tried to survive and have done so. Are you saying that Wakefield should have been allowed to go in to admin to avoid debts they could pay and that they deserve praise for not doing something which is essentially fraud?

Are you really accusing the Chairman of Wakefield Trinity of telling lies at the club meeting a few months ago.
There were several hundred people in the room that evening and it was clearly stated by MC that if Wakefield had gone into admin, that they would not be allowed to play in SL.
There wasn't any detail given about, if they pay this bill or that bill, it was a black and white statement.
So, please repeat the fact on here for all to see, that YOU believe he was not telling the truth.

You are questioning something that you clearly know nothing about but, please enlighten us further, it should be very interesting.

that will never happen because you dont want accept your failure as your failure, you can only relate it to other clubs. You need to have the safety net of a conspiracy because the alternative, the truth just isnt acceptable to you. Its sad but not all that important

Individual club loyalty has nothing to do with it.

The RFL have bent over backwards for the bulls, unjustly.

In similiar circumstances their response to wakefield, essentially amounted to ''sort it out yourself or rot in hell''.

Let's not forgot wakefield are also an ''iconic'' rugby league club with a rich history. Just because bradford won a few titles in the last 2 decades.

The FRL can not govern this sport properly.

No im accusing him of phrasing things in a way which shows him and his club in the best light to his fans. Which is kind of what I would expect every Chairman of every club does every time.

I think it would be naïve to think that Michael Carter had a conversation with the RFL that consisted solely of one question and one unequivocal answer, if you think about it I don’t even think you would believe the conversation went ‘what happens if we go in to admin’ ‘you start again at C1’ and that’s it, done dusted, no further information sought or given.

So you are saying that the Bulls arent paying debts they had the money to pay and that they have debts they could have paid but had no intention of paying? We are moving on to some pretty serious allegations here.

Zzzzzzzz

When your argument flounders, raise the libel flag. Given that the legal person you are accusing me of making accusations about, the company that used to run the Bulls, no longer exists, I guess I could pretty much say what I like.

In any event, all teams can repay debts. It's how they choose to do it that's the issue. For example, Bulls could have off-loaded all of their players, reduced their playing bill to nil, and then recruited academy players and Championship players who would play for next to nothing, which is what Wakefield pretty much did in 2011.

Wakefield couldn't pay their debts as things stood. They reduced their playing bill and other liabilities, as it was the only way to do so and stay in Super League. Did the same thing apply to the Bulls?

PS: I've been a lawyer for twenty years. I can handle myself. You need to stop frothing and concentrate; you're letting a queue build up in the drive-thru lane.

You're over-analysing this to justify making deliberately provocative statements like this one.

I haven't seen any Wakefield fans refusing to accept our own club's failure; that is well documented and there have been harsh consequences - our squad and non-playing staff have been decimated in a series of austerity measures worthy of George Osborne. There were few, if any, declarations of unfairness or chips on shoulder throughout that process - rather, a weary acceptance that if it gets the club back on a sound financial footing, so be it.

I really don't understand how anyone can deem it unreasonable for fans of one club to expect that rival clubs have the rules of the competition applied to them in equal measure, regardless of shenanigans about ownership and such. The fact that we're about to embark on a season that heralds the return of P&R is just grist to the mill in that regard; not only are Bradford potentially being handed an unfair advantage for the 2014 season, but it could have a profound and lasting effect for many seasons to come.

If you remove the need to categorise and polarise people, it's simple common sense; with everything that's at stake, the governing body need to apply the rules consistently and fairly, regardless of which club is involved.

Im not changing the topic at all. You said that Wakefield took drastic action to avoid Admin because the RFL told them they would need to start in C1. The inference from that being that had the RFL not told Wakefield they would have needed to start in C1 they wouldn’t have taken such action and simply gone in to Admin, avoiding debts we now know for certain they could pay.