Bad timing. Doesn't matter now what the actual reasons are (getting an independent panel together, collecting evidence etc. etc.) so so many people will now believe that the RFL will be influenced by the result of the Bradford v Wakefield match. There are enough conspiracy theorists around without creating the perfect environment for breeding them. You would hope they would think of that when planning these things. Oh sorry - I used "RFL", "think" and "planning" in the same sentence - time for my medication !

The be all and end of the matter is IF WE win enough games on the pitch it wont matter what the RFL or an independent panel decide

Agree completely. The best and only way to shut everyone up.

We need to be at Bradford for their game in full force.
You can bet they will see this as their big chance and will drag every stay away fan back to make it a big atmosphere for them.
The players need to see and hear the red, white and blue

Agreed Pop Tart
Although you "just know" they will be given some of the 6 points back, we can go there and show them that it is Wakefield that deserve to be in the top flight and not the RFL Bulls with their iconic this, that or the other.

Has anyone found out who is sitting on this independent panel just so we know it is Independent like.

it sounds very independent when very concidently they are waiting until we play Bradford to annouce the result...

If they beat us home and away it would add weight to their argument.
This game is more than a four pointer, if we win; psychologically it would damage the bulls I'm sure. If we lose; it could give the RFL an opportunity to push the bulls cause, give the bulls a huge boost and make for a Hollywood-esque style run in to the end of the season and a million pound game style saga.

If Bradford lose, it puts the panel in the position of effectively relegating a team, and possibly destroying a new business. That puts them in an impossible position.

I don't think the RFL will want any outcome that suggests they got it wrong at the start of the season, that they derailed Bradford's season by getting it wrong, so I don't buy the "let's have a million pound game" desire. But if we win, I reckon the points will be cancelled out in some way. If Bradford win, I reckon it will stay the same, cancelling out their two points, confirming the correctness of the earlier decision.

A lot depends on the parameters of the tribunal. Two possible questions:
1. Complete rehearing, looking at new criteria, a second bite of the cherry as it were. That could result in a reduction of the sanction
Or
2. Was the RFL decision unreasonable? That's a different question. Someone can have a different opinion on something without the conflicting opinion being unreasonable. The tribunal could rule, on that question, "we would have maybe come to a different view, but the RFL decision was reasonable in the circumstances, given the criteria they had to apply". Which would mean the points stay the same.

from the VT thread

Hope you're ready for a two-page response from Ferocious Aardvark, in which your post is broken down into small paragraphs and to which you'll never reply because you'll have lost the will to live before the end.

Force Majeure means events beyond the control of the parties concerned. If Marc Green issued the winding up order, or whatever it was that took them into administration, then it seems a poor argument, because it was in his control. I'm assuming the argument is that it was someone other than him that took them into administration, nothing to do with him, so why should he suffer?

If he wins, that suggests that every buyer of a club in administration can argue the same thing. "Nowt to do with me". etc.

What's the betting that if they do win the appeal, the RFL immediately change the rules so no one else can benefit from using the same argument?

The most vocal Bulls fans are trying to make it technical, saying that it was the Robbie Paul (or whoever) business plan that had no merit and cost six points, not the Marc Green plan, which came later. What hasn't been said is what does Marc Green's plan say about repaying creditors and what are his intentions?

A lot of smoke being pumped out by some and not much fire.

Shouldn't really matter after watching them today. They are absolutely woeful!!