10,540 sold.

And, even with the discounted pricing, there was still a surprisingly large walk-in support on top of that last Sunday, as well as excellent travelling support from the Piedome.

Under the old criteria, you picked up a Franchise point for having average crowds of over 10k, and another for a stadium that was on average more than 40% full - in Bulls case that would be about 10.4k.

Quite right too Bradford are in no danger at all, certainly not this time.

However, if in 3 years Salford, Saints, Cas, Wakey all have new, premier venues and Bradford continue to fail to make the play-offs and if other clubs make the necessary strides...who knows.

Ahhh...well, one can dream, eh?

Not dream...nightmare.

Made all the more real because, in the scenario you outline which is (hopefully) unlikely but far from impossible, then you are quite correct.

My personal view is that the RFL - by which I really mean the big monied-clubs running the show nowdays - would have little concern in ejecting Bradford in favour of some new "Development" club. I am not concerned about the current Licensing round; but I am seriously concerned about the next. I reckon that they will want a 16-team competition spread 3 clubs in West Yorks, 3 in Central Lancs/Scouseland, 3 in SW Lancs/Cheshire/N Wales, 2 in Hull, 2 in London, 2 in France and 1 anywhere they can claim as "Develpment" - you would hope Cumbria, or poss South Yorks (again) but what prizes for somewhere like Dublin?

On my scenario, West Yorks = Leeds, Hudds (go where the money is...) and... ??

if my memory is correct from reading past info you can squeese a few more than that

I know hkr have alot of fans but there ground is shocking as well. They are also too close to another sl club but they never get mentioned in the mix of relegation clubs. Any thoughts?