Can anyone answer when the appeal will be heard / final punishment decided?

Just want this sorting asap given the potential ramifications for other clubs. The RFL have enough people claiming conspiracy at every decision, so the sooner they can finalise this sorry episode the better

With a hardcore support of 2,341 these days (I'll be generous in assuming not a single Catalan supporter turned up to Odsal yesterday) the sooner they are relegated (along with London) the better.

Yes, but you were going into pre SL or, clubs not in the top flight, which is hardly relevant is it ?
I think that you and I have to agree to disagree on this one and fwiw, if Wakefield had gone into admin, I would certainly have expected either demotion or a points deduction, as I believe would be the case for other clubs, in the current climate.
As you know HMRC have got brassed off with sporting organisations going into admin and avoiding paying their tax liabilities and this is the main reason that Football (and RL) have been somewhat harder, on defaulting clubs, in recent years.
You seem to want to go against this trend, because it's Bradford that are involved.
Whether this is a case of principle, or favouritism, we don't know but, judging by the poll on this thread, you remain in a very small minority.

Sure you would, and delighted you'd have been. Odd you don't mention expecting a fine of a year's distribution in the mix.


I think you misrepresent his position entirely. However, in the case of a club that has gone bust owing HMRC approx. £170K, due very largely to the unprecedented fine of £1.6m, I don't think that the RFL or the clubs voting to pay themselves a share of Bradford's money is quite in the spirit, do you?

If each club that stole a share of Brtadford's money chipped in a mere £17K back, then HMRC would be clear, no longer brassed off, and all would be happy. However I expect instead you'll all talk a good game, but hypocritically still keep taking Bradford's money, when it could and should be going to pay creditors.

Neither 97, nor 2000 are pre SL.

And again, I don't want to go against this, I want us to actually do it rather than pretend to. I want the people who take clubs in to admin to actually be punished, I want an actual deterrent rather than a token gesture which is no deterrent at all.

I'm sure HMRC would be absolutely delighted if we did this.

If you don't like it, don't go bust (again). The space below is for you to point out that "you" didn't actually go bust...



If you are happy to accuse the other 13 clubs of theft, I don't feel quite so bad for referring to the "fine" as a bribe to let Bradford stay in SL.

Incidentally, do you have any evidence to support your assertion that it was in fact a fine?

Seems fair enough.


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