Well, they say that this decision is down to the club's proud history and their support base. (especially those who travel to away games) Now I can think of one or two who aren't well supported, at home, never mind away, and who haven't got tradition on their side.

Of course, they may be 'protected' for other reasons!

Is anyone surprised? I'm not

they don't care about our teams down below

the championships have 3 years left before we die completely

There should still be hope that Bradford will be liquidated and that this season's Championship Grand Final winners will be promoted to SL (if they really do want a 14 team Super League)

The article says that the core of their squad, players such as Luke Gale, Brett Kearney, Heath L’Estrange, John Bateman, Craig Kopczak and Jamie Langley, are signed up for 2013.

If that's the case, and the Administrator has to do what raises most cash for the Bulls' creditors:

1. Sell that lot - to other Super League clubs, NRL clubs or RU then liquidate the Bulls
2. Only if a new financial backer offers to put more cash into the Bulls for the creditors than 1. above would raise should the Administrator accept such an offer.

I've said it before; what RL in this country needs:-

1. Somehow require at least 13 of the 17 players named for each match to be EU born or raised players
2. Automatic promotion and relegation between the leagues (even if only some form of one-up, one-down)
3. Limit payments to players in a year to no more than 50% of the club's annual income in the most recent audited accounts.

Leave that in place for 10 years and we'll be booming again.

SL clubs are hardly going to set a precedent of relegating a club in financial trouble are they. Have you seen the state of some of their accounts! Our friends up the road had liabilities of over 5 million quid at the end of 2010.

Is history part of the licensing criteria now.

The point is that it is the Adminstrator, by law, who has to decide what to do in the best interests of the creditors - not the RFL or SLE. If the best deal the Administrator can get is to sell the players and then liquidate the Club, that's his decision alone.

I pointed that out on the bradford board but was told that it didn't apply or something along those lines. That is why i think the administrator appointed by Caisley had an ulterior motive early on in this. Anyone seen anything of Mr Caisley since June 26th when they went into admin.

Whoever told you that is wrong. The law is very clear on the matter.

However, it's rare for a business to be wound up if there is any chance of it continuing to run as a going concern with new owners. The RFL have to approve the new owners as well as the administrator, and they have the ability to do that as the governing body. The administrators could sell to an unapproved bidder, but it wouldn't be a realistic move for them to make.

Well with the SL Turkeys voting for xmas , it`ll be my last visit to Wembley and attending an England International.

I can not see a Championship club coming into Superleague.

What a disgrace.

Have to say with total honesty where does this leave the few Championship clubs with ambition ?
With each week we are seeing the closed shop SL with feeder clubs outside it slowly becoming a reality.

Should the Championship clubs of Fev, Fax , Leigh etc join forces (and finances) and start to query these decisions, surely a collective of the games biggest clubs outside SL is better than a Fax chairman or Leigh CEO being shouted down or belittled especially if all are speaking as one ?
Equally perhaps its time for a few basic questions with so much reported as going on which can be highely damaging to those clubs finances long term.

I'm not joining in...might get 'told off' !!!
Franchising Is The Future.......my @rse !

At one time I kept thinking that we should breakaway, arrange our own TV rights and return to Winter Rugby but there again perhaps its only a matter of time before the top clubs in the SL breakaway and join the top clubs in union.