Just think, all those fans that stumped up £500k could have waited 3 months and owned the club after it debt-defaulted, rather than see their money go up to smoke.

What's happening at Bradford is symptomatic of wider society, where nobody and nothing is allowed to fail due to their own bad decisions - whether it be banks, governments or people taking on stupidly large mortgages. Ultimately it just ends up smearing the problem across all the people and entities that did nothing wrong, and leads to all sorts of moral hazard.

Why not buy all the teams in the league? All the monies could then be distributed evenly between the franchises and we'd get a fairer, more exciting, competition.

Then we could have a league where no-one can fail.

Glory!

What a mess.

Are you insinuating here that if we fold Sale will take over the running of the club? If so I think your becoming delusional

As I have said on the "cheated" thread Super League (Europe) Ltd are setting a serious precedent with the purchase of Bradford Bulls, will they do exactly the same for Salford and my club London, yes in a perfect world it would be right that SLE own all the clubs, but can you ever see the Top 4 clubs going with that? every club having the same monies to spend!

I don't fully agree with the comparison with Gateshead and The Bulls/SLE that was the game being controlled as always by clubs at the top and such as the Hetherington's didn't it keep Hull on the top league of the game?

My serious concern is that the RFL have just appointed one of the people who has controlled the game over the past years Nigel Woods to do a review of the game & Super League, I see that as a white wash as I am unsure what Woods has to offer the game any longer, we need change and people with drive!

We are after investment so if sale were to make offer to buy club it as to be better than situation we are in now. So why appose it