[url=http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/bradford-cannot-look-to-rfl-to-bail-them-out-again-after-ground-sale-1-4411686=#800000This[/url piece seems to me to explain more than anything that has come out of the club so far. It pretty well accords with my understanding too, and if not my understanding then my deductions. Some of you will like how it makes reference to a degree of previous "mismanagement" and the spin it was clear put on the Odsal lease sale - neither of which, despite what some have tried to insist, I have sought to deny (especially regarding then previous regime) just to endeavour to explain to those prepared to listen. And I am glad that the club is now acknowledging publically what they have told me for several years, which is they made a dreadful mistake in 2002 in not taking out a long-term loan for the Coral Stand.

ask and thee shall receive;

[i"George Galloway, the newly-elected Respect MP for Bradford West, has pledged to the campaign and is expected to attend Friday’s game at Odsal."[/i

[url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportbulls/9627525.Bulls_chairman_Hood_in_plea_to_Bradford_businesses/Latest local paper depression report[/url

Friday nights game could be....interesting at least.

Budgeted for crowds of 16000? What planet are Mr. Hood and his cronies living on? That's more than Wigan and Leeds get.

19,275 last year in April....I can see them beating that.....but the emotional blackmail leaves a bitter taste in the mouth.

Are you referring to "Having budgeted for a crowd of 16,000" from the article? If so, I read that as being a possible attendance for the Bradford-Leeds derby this Friday rather than for several other Bradford crowds.

Thats correct, budgeted for 16,000 for the Leeds good Friday game, not any other game. Which it now looks like we'll exceed comfortably. They are clarifiying that any cash from attendance over the budgeted for income (16,000) will go towards the pledge as they had said previously that the Leeds attendance cash would not aid the pledge.



...tell me about it...

Yes, sorry - with it now.

Enjoyed reading a thread on Facebook with fans turning on others because they hadn't donated to the cause.

Do people still really believe that there will be no rugby league played in Bradford if they don't raise the £500k/£1m/£whatever the total is this week? Businesses owning sports clubs the size of Bradford have gone to the wall before and, miraculously, another company comes along and the club still keeps going. Why would it be different in this case?

As I said earlier, no chance of Bradford Bulls (or a team called Bradford playing Odsal) not being in SL next year.

[urlhttp://www.engagesuperleague.co.uk/article/caisley-prepared-to-come-to-bulls-aid/24774[/url

Whats the Bulls fans feeling on this?

Maybe that's why the guilt trip put on people for not pledging is something I find frankly an utter disgrace.

I was at Belle Vue back in 2001 when Wakefield somehow stayed up, when the Chairman and his cronies begged us for money or the club would cease to exist, when the coach at the time (John Harbin, great orator) begged us for funds to keep the great players coming through (before he left for Dewsbury weeks later) and even that club managed to keep going despite having a crap ground, low support and a bloody awful squad at that point.

I sat through page upon page on forums of people saying how they were better because they could afford to, or were so blinded by 'loyalty' that they chose to donate thousands of pounds to keep a failing business, and those who put it there in the first place, afloat.

Forgive me for thinking that Bradford will still be around, whether £500k is found or not.

It's third of my four possible outcomes, ever so slightly higher than oblivion.