He's a big bloke, some part of Nigel Wood is always in Australia.

How manymore deadlines are they going to have this saga is making our game look very silly.

4 Bids have been received by the RFL but they have given a deadline of 21st August for concrete business plans to be submitted. This means that Bradford wont know their fate until the season is over. The RFL will let them carry on in SL next year as if nothing has happened. Pathetic. How long can they let this farce go on.

Also why are the RFL getting so involved in who purchases the club? They should say that there will be no unconditional offers then let the Administrator decide who buys them. The RFL should have no say who owns them but just whether they can remain in SL. Stand back and let Brenda Guffaw decide.

The RFL are getting involved BECAUSE of how long this has been going on. They're interested in who buys the club because they don't want this whole thing to happen again in 12 months a la Crusaders.

And who says they're going to let the Bulls continue in SL next year? Oh that's right, you did so that must mean it's set in stone.

If the RFL had any balls and stopped bailing them out by paying players wages then it wouldn't have gone on for so long. Do you really think Bradford won't be in SL next year? That is the only reason the RFL got involved. Get the club a decent owner so they can stay in SL.

Well i hope whoever they persuade 'with promises' has a better track record than the last one they persuaded ....a certain Mr Samuels

I'm sure the employees of the Bulls appreciate your concern for their jobs. Or did you forget that behind all this are actual people who rely on the Bulls for their living?

Tough tittyroo I'm afraid. A bit of tough love from the RFL might deter chairmen of other clubs from putting their employees in jeopardy - not to mention the creditors that have already been screwed over.

You can bet your bottom dollar that the next club that engages in financial spasticicity like Bradford have done won't be handed a comforting 6 point penalty.

None of this is a pleasant affair but guilt trip posts are a little condescending.

Charming. Your empathy is an example to us all.


It's not a 'guilt trip post'. I'm just a little fed up with frothing rants about how the RFL should have immediately moved to not only bury the Bulls but preferably dance all over their grave as well, with little or no consideration for the blameless human beings working there.

And I haven't forgotten that creditors are also suffering, but as far as I'm aware none of the creditors are going to go out of business or lay off staff as a result. Neither will forcing the Bulls out of existence help those creditors in any way.

Finally - what makes you think that punishing people who had nothing at all to do with running the club into the ground will in any way deter future boards/chairmen from doing something similar? The folk responsible for this debacle have walked away scot free.

Man up.

No one is dancing over the Bulls grave and no one wants to see them go out of business but they shouldn't have the RFL pay them their wages. Did the Football League or the FA pay Portsmouth players wages or Luton's? Did the SPL or SFA pay Rangers players wages? Did the RFL pay Wakefied, Rochadle and Crusaders wages? The answer is no. They were left to get themselves out of a financial mess as it was their own doing.

And before you start with the Bradford to big to fail rubbish, they are not and life would go on.

Are the RFL not just advancing the Bulls Sky money that they would otherwise be due in any event?

You are having a go at the wrong people Kosh.
The people that you should be angry with are the folk that have badly overspent at Bradford.
You make comment that none of the Bulls suppliers have laid off staff because of the Bulls difficulties, but the level of debt that they have, cannot fail to damage their suppliers and it is very likely that some will suffer severe hardship as a result of this.

So apparently it's down to two bidders: Omar Khan and Bradford Park Avenue. Is history about to go full circle and the Great Split of 1907 be healed?