I remember SL Backchat a couple of months ago and was surprised by this:-

The restructuring for next year was looking at a reduction to twelve teams. Rod Studd said to the 3 guests (Stevo, Andy Wilson and I think it was Danny Lockwood) who will be the 2 to leave SL in 2013. All 3 replied London and Bradford.

I wasn't surprised by the London comments but Bradford was a strange one at the time. Did they know something wasn't right then ?

Outstanding work from RLfans. Club comes out and says we are not near administration, this is temporary cash flow issue. 7 pages of wailing and gnashing of teeth that this isn’t a temporary cash flow issue and club is near administration

"temporary cash flow issues" are not usually indicative of club in good health. To be fair, your world must be quite a happy one, where you lap up any statement or press release issued by the RFL or clubs like Bradford. Far be it from me to suggest the real world is better than your happy fantasy one (it probably isn't), but hey, if you're ever interested in what's going on, drag out some old statements and press releases (say from a few years ago) from the RFL, or Bradford, or Crusaders, or all 3, whatever, and compare them with subsequent events. You might learn something.

Any update on how the RFL's strategic plan is going?

Oh dear,bring a buddy for a fiver.They do realise that many who would usually pay full price at the gate will be latching on to a ST holder and paying the club LESS.Dont they?

You talk about how you are living in the real world, in a post moaning about a problem you don’t know exists. We can either work with the information we have, or we can invent information in our heads. Only one of them, however, is living in the real world.


Its on their website. Have a look.

I make a conclusion on the basis of the information available to me. If that information changes, my conclusions change. In the absence of alternative information, I don’t just make it up.

It screams they don’t have cash right now to pay them. They say that is a temporary issue they will over come. What information do I have to dispute that? Just being generally cynical isn’t going to get you any closer to the truth than simply believing everything you are told.

We see rumours constantly on these boards, 4 or 5 times a season that a certain club is about to fall over. Very rarely is it true. Yet somehow we have gotten ourselves to a state when even in the face of an absolute denial, all clubs are literally on the brink of falling over all the time.

We see it with everything, Bradford tell us they aren’t about to fall over = they are definitely about to fall over, The RFL tell us they have sold 200k tickets for the WC = The RFL definitely hasn’t sold 200k tickets for the WC, 15k go watch Les Catalans in Toulouse = 15k definitely did not go watch Les Catalans in Toulouse, the media are out to get us when they publish bad news about the game, the RFL are lying to us when they publicise good news about it. Its like watching eeyore have a panic attack

We have precisely 0 data at all to contradict what Bradford are saying. If you have some, share it. Show us numbers, figures, data.

Right now all we know of fact is that Bradfords players didn’t get paid, we have been told they will get paid on the 8th and it is a temporary cash flow issue. What data right now, do we have to contradict that? I haven’t seen any other than the general depressed, paranoid cynicism of RLfans.

No, this is such an astonishing insight, almost worthy of a Nobel prize, that there can be no doubt yours must surely be the first human brain to which such a possibility has occurred. Your personal Eureka moment, perhaps. Well done.

I'm sure that what they DO realise is that there is NO marketing they could EVER do, which would not be immediately castigated by sneering, halfwit, self-appointed marketing experts.