Bradford aren't the only RL club the has RFL owned stadia. The Bulls pay market value rent to the RFL.

Course they do!!! omg.............

Simple answer only the super league clubs at the time know this and it was two seasons worth of sky money, so considerbly less than anyone else in sl at the time!!! is it me?

The club won the 1998 Championship Grand Final and were told (eventually) they would be allowed into SL but the clubs would not share the Sky pot out to another club for two years. The amount if I recall then was in the order of £750k to £850k per year. Hopefully someone with a better memory than my own can confirm.

Wildcats chairman comes out fighting for his club, maybe he should do the teamtalk on friday???

No , it's me as well.

He would certainly be independent of bradford!!!

Thanks for that. Still not a penalty for administration that another SL club has received.

Disappointing statement from your chairman though, no other chairman has seen fit to comment before the appeal has been heard.

Maybe he was dissapointed there was even a appeal in the first place?

I agree with you in principle, if we are good enough we should not have to rely on a points deduction. However that's not the point. It's about a level playing field and all Club's being treated the same. If the Bulls are allowed to get away with remaining in SL and no points deduction why did Michael Carter have to re-organise our finances and him and Chris Brereton put their homes on the line - we could have just gone into Administration and retained most of last years team.

The RFL have to make the rules on entering Administration clear which in my opinion should be immediate relegation to Championship 1 and that applies to us if we go that way again. The game cannot allow Clubs to just turn their backs on paying off creditors whoever they may be and continue as if nothing has happened if it wishes to retain any dignity and credibility.

The money that Wake did without for the first two years would have gone a lot further than Bradford's withheld money.
So it was a great effort by Wake to do what they did for those first two years.
The game has moved on and the players and structure of clubs has moved on.
If in 1999 the funding was £750,000 and the other year it was £1.2 million, it's not a big increase, maybe this is the reason for the demise of the 21's?

more to come on bradford i think. previous owner Omah Khan to issue statement next week - see telegraph and argus site

Maybe it's because no other club chairmen got told or given a good idea what would happen if they went into admin?