Bought a stadium in London, are you in the pub drinking strong lager??

When I say the rfl were weak it was in not dropping them to nl1 and no Toronto were not the replacement a team who went down were the replacement. The RFL are the governing body, might be sports bank roll. Teams should stand and fall on there own merits, the fact they over stretched themselves financially is there own fault, why should the RFL bail them out? Same with us, why should anyone "buy" us a stadium!
As for the plight of the players, you are joking are you not? That failure and crash was coming all season. Sport is hard to fund but lots of teams manage to cope

Bulls bringing in 4 Rhinos.

Not to relegate either of the Cumbrian teams would have been pointless, both are very poor and offer very little. They very much seem to be living in the past.
Toronto would have bought a strong, competitive team, fresh new ideas and loads of publicity.
Catalan were put straight into Super League if you remember,and initially struggled. Look at them now.
Toronto as we well know are a very competent team who would have thrived in the Championship and would certainly be pushing for The Middle 8s, with a chance of promotion.

Bosty I take your point, so why not pick and choose then?
Why did Toulouse not come straight into championship? Who would you suggest should have been binned last year in there favour
Either we have a progression system and you prove yr ability first or you have franchise where you can buy your way into the league.
Have Catalan been the roaring success of the SL era? They have not won an awful lot have they? Yes they are pretty competitive and in fact are my super league team that I follow at the moment.
As for your argument re Cumbrian team Barrow raiders played 7 won 7
Whitehaven played 6 won 5 so neither team offer anything are they?

It is a moot point and all down for discussion, and opinions, like I say my view Bradford were "saved" from demotion as a new club on history rather than sense. Who should have replaced them is pretty irrelevant but I still say a relegated team should have got the place.

Just been talking to one of our suppliers who comes from Bradford. His Dad a life long Bradford fan and season ticket holder, says that if this court case is as bad as it appears. The new owners might just walk away.
As it is they are just about getting by. Card payments in their shop have had to be made through a third party. Their coach still has no visa. Recent results are awful. Reliant on loan players from Leeds. A court case that they could lose. Not a very good outlook.
Can see the RFL having to take over until the end of the season, then fold the club.

Not that surprised, it's a real shame but it looks like it's only going one way.

As we are on the subject of Toronto, looks like the Paul rowley influence is setting in there, 5 players up in front of the discip board, sounding all very much like Leigh. Would rather watch rugby league played in the spirit of the game rather than trying to use thug tactics.

agree Bosty. Few of the SL teams use thug tactics and a couple of championship teams to boot.

The expectation of Bradford fans does not appear too high for Sundays game. I know that they have bought in these players from Leeds, Lilley appears to be the best of them, but the club is in a mess and the team is all over the place. So we should come home with two points.
Away numbers will be down this week, as a lot of the regulars are going to Newcastle for the Magic weekend. However there still will be a few of us there to cheer the lads on. I bet it will be raining.
I do not think I have ever seen us win at Odsal, so a victory will be nice.

We beat the Bulls at Odsal in 2009 & 20013, or every 4 years, which means a win up there in 2017 is a foregone conclusion

It must be our year then !!!!!

Got my tickets today, not been to Blackpool in years

Lack of communication is the key, we're skilled & experienced now at picking up indicators that things are not good, and they're racking up again.

Shop has been accepting only cash for the last 10days 4.7998046875:5