Wrong. I'd be amazed if Lenegan, etc. wanted anything else than other clubs to compete hard and bring in fans and media interest. Its good for business. Stuffing failing, poorly supported clubs that the media has practically forgotten even exist, isn't.

That's kind of what I meant by 'If the weak got even weaker, then where's the challenge?'

Teams that can [icompete[/i with you, so games are not foregone conclusions, but not actually [ibeat[/i you too regularly. Or are you going to tell me you want your team to lose more often?
A few more clubs get closer to break even and the calls for a cap rise would soon come. 'To retain more top players in SL', and in no way to help the rich clubs maintain their competitive advantage and put the rest back on the breadline, obviuosly.
If we (HKR) were among the rich clubs, I'd want exactly the same. I hope I wouldn't adopt a sanctimonious 'blame the poor' attitude towards all the game's ills though.
If the big clubs get really fed-up, they should go off and form a Mega-League or some such. There's nothing to stop them.

Because they were able to create a mechanism for doing so, indirectly. Nothing about that process was fair, but that seems at least rational.

If Khan had not have gone newco and had brought you out of administration, striking a deal with the creditors, it'd have just been a points deduction.

Tbf, he got an extant squad, transfer of the licence and a stadium lease for very little cash up front. The option of starting over was there and the forfeiture of half the Sky cash was made clear from the outset, wasn't it?

Weren't Bradford one of those vulture clubs circling around Wakefield at the time? They were also circling around Salford not so very long ago.

I don’t remember Bradford, it was Catalans, Hull & strangely enough Huddersfield, the Andean Condor of vultures .

No.

No, they weren't.

The RFL might change the rules on administration and say 2 years. That way thats 1 club relegated, and all it would want now is another club to go the same way. That gives them then a 12 team super league without too many big drama's.

If Bradford have secured a "bridging" loan from a bank, then how come it's taking a week to sort out funds?
Also, is borrowing money from the bank on the promise of future ticketing revenues not very similar to some of the actions of early 2012?
Catalan and London next up.....10,610 and 10,132 last year, before the August wages are due to be paid......then with Huddersfield...who should be chasing the hubcap.....so could be a 15k bumper crowd. Then 5 months of no home games and a reported 1 million quid to find in wages.....and the interest on the 200k loan.

Queue bucket collections galore by the middle of February 2014!

rlBradford Bulls will be raking in the money against Catalan Dragons!rl

Trouble up mill methinx

Will they ever learn.

Dear oh dear, the desperate nature of that is depressing....and hilarious at the same time. Under 12's free! Please bring a buddy please! Theres former bulls champions playing!