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| Quote me two things:
1. Where I said bulls were in administration
2. Where I said anything has anything to do with Halifax?
Keep chasing that tail. Bull power
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| To add to all of this; There's a fax fan on twitter saying that a member of the Halifax board told him that Halifax were put on notice 3 weeks ago that they would be entering super league due to a big name super league club going into Administration.
 Oh dear, the conspiracy theorists aren't half enjoying themselves..
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| Quote Adeybull="Adeybull"Mess? Not from where I am sitting.
(I wonder how many times I have said the next bit?)
Because the Bulls would have to move out of Odsal to have a long-term future, following the collapse of the OSV project through lack of funding. The directors (if I understand it correctly) dared not gamble on staying put, because a large unexpected bill could finish the club. Because, while they are adamant there was no requirement for immediate funding, a large cost could arise at any time and the club was living hand to mouth with no reserves.
But, in the present economic climate, the only option that appeared to be available was to move in at Valley Parade. But the only option for that that seemed to be on the table was to allow the club to be acquired by a predator, one of whom at least made it pretty clear they only wanted Odsal and saw it as doing the Bulls a favour. They could see the Bulls dilemma, and sought to take advantage of it.
Had there been a sugar daddy on the horizon, no problem. Had the previous Bradford City rescue fiasco not put paid forever to the hopes of a retail component at Odsal, probably no problem. Don't even get me started on just how badly the Bulls were shafted by the council then.
But no such hopes. So the board - and the supportive shareholders, who were most of the big ones - were looking at a continuing grind into mediocrity with little prospect of a happy ending.
What was the open market value of the club? To a third party looking at a commercial proposition? Like most RL clubs, zero. In the short term, you are looking at putting money IN not at getting a return from whatever you paid for the shares. Why would a predator offer money for the shares, knowing that there appeared to be no-one else seemingly prepared to buy them (or that the main shareholders would sell to) but that the shareholders would probably have to sell to preserve the club's long-term future?
But Bulls were in a unique situation - both as regards the threats and as regards the opportunities. And the solution that has been achieved reflects both, as far as I can see.'"
Still don't follow why you'd sell shares for a pittance when they help a predator unlock the land value of Odsal, which would in strategic and possibly cash terms be worth a lot to the predator.
I'm also still struggling with the proposition that the shareholders would have had to sell to the predator because the club didn't have the cash to meet unexpected shocks. We are almost in Donald Rumsfeld-esque unknown unknowns territory here, its all a bit vague and conspiratorial. Surely it would be better to hang on to the shares and try to improve the finances to meet whatever might happen than throw the towel in. (This is only a rugby club and a rugby stadium we are talking about, surely some financial planning is possible, rather than simply sitting on your hands waiting for some unexpected event (!) to happen).
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| Quote Paul124897="Paul124897"To add to all of this; There's a fax fan on twitter saying that a member of the Halifax board told him that Halifax were put on notice 3 weeks ago that they would be entering super league due to a big name super league club going into Administration.
Oh dear, the conspiracy theorists aren't half enjoying themselves..'"
Why Halifax when featherstone deserve it more?
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| Quote freddies wig="freddies wig"Chomp!
T!t'"
So me responding to you being an idiot by calling you an idiot is a bite? Riiiiiiight.
Well done you.
And no, you didn't say the Bulls have been or were going to be in administration. However, the context of your comment implies you mean Bradford and your subsequent quibbling over the semantics of what you said just show you up as a troll.
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| Quote Paul124897="Paul124897"To add to all of this; There's a fax fan on twitter saying that a member of the Halifax board told him that Halifax were put on notice 3 weeks ago that they would be entering super league due to a big name super league club going into Administration.
Oh dear, the conspiracy theorists aren't half enjoying themselves..'"
Think they've made same assumption as dozey Parker in sun. Rumours of a big name in trouble + odsal deal announcement= must be Bradford in trouble.
If rumour circulating at weekend has any legs they need to be looking a lot further east for the club in trouble.
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| OK christ, look.
The RFL have done a property deal. They've paid market value and when they sell it on, it will be for market value with hopefully a bit of profit in it.
That's good for the game, simply.
It's a nothing story.
If the RFL wanted a national RL stadium, it would be brand new and it would not be in somewhere like Bradford. You can't have a national anything in Bradford for Christ's sake.
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Quote ROBINSON="ROBINSON"If the RFL wanted a national RL stadium, it would be brand new and it would not be in somewhere like Bradford. You can't have a national anything in Bradford for Christ's sake.'"
www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/

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Quote ROBINSON="ROBINSON"If the RFL wanted a national RL stadium, it would be brand new and it would not be in somewhere like Bradford. You can't have a national anything in Bradford for Christ's sake.'"
www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/

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| Quote mat="mat"Think they've made same assumption as dozey Parker in sun. Rumours of a big name in trouble + odsal deal announcement= must be Bradford in trouble.
If rumour circulating at weekend has any legs they need to be looking a lot further east for the club in trouble.'"
I've never quite worked out whether twitter or the North Korean Press Agency is more reliable.
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| rubbish to all this papering over the cracks, the fact remains that Bradford are not going to lose their franchise because the RFL have a special interest in them, their stadium is awful but this doesn't matter anymore. I think you can look at this from every angle possible and try ad justify this and that, but it remains that Bradford are tenants to the RFL.
We can have our opinions on whether Bradford were bailed out or not, but that isn't what interests me, it's the franchise bit.
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| Bulls should move the games against Wakefield to Bradford City. See if they keep moaning when they have to put up with the small pitch and awful stand behind the sticks.
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| Quote dids858="dids858"Bulls should move the games against Wakefield to Bradford City. See if they keep moaning when they have to put up with the small pitch and awful stand behind the sticks.'"
I'll gamble that the B.C. pitch is flat, all the way into the corners 
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