AFAIK those clubs must be spending the full cap. I wonder if tyhe RFL will let them breach the cap to sign these players

I don't know that they did twist their arms to drop out - the opposite could easily be true.

Either way, the impact of their act or omission was that our club was left with an unreasonably short window in which to prepare for SL; in real terms, we had less time than Widnes to prepare for the 2012 season and we're now seeing the results of that - fail to plan, plan to fail and all that shiz.

If the RFL are capable of learning any lessons from the past 12 months or so, perhaps the most important one is that they should act more quickly when a club is known to be failing? If they'd been more robust with Bradford when the opportunities arose (first, when they didn't make any payments on their 400k loan and latterly, when they bought the lease to keep them afloat and subsequently lied about why they'd done it; and that's not even mentioning the long contracts handed out to players when they knew they were heading for a financial iceberg) then perhaps those members of the RL community, including the supporters, wouldn't now be 500k worse off with nothing to show for it? The attendant loss of goodwill is difficult to quantify, but a quick scan of RL Fans is enough to tell you that fans of other clubs are finding it difficult to be sympathetic to a club that appears to have been the author of its own misfortune.

The attitude at Red Hall seems to be one of preserving at all costs the illusion that SL is an umitigated success; in my view, they need to be more organisationally mature and understand that the failure of a member club doesn't necessarily mean that their system has failed - they'd get more respect for outing and dealing with failures consistently and with fairness. That might also have the fringe benefit of encouraging clubs to be more open and honest with them and applying more financial rigour to their operations - if they knew that financial improprieties would result in severe penalties, maybe they'd act more sensibly to avoid them?

The rfl have announced that any Tom, dick or harry who runs the club can fufil the fixtures until the end of the season, seems quite a bizzare thing to do....

I don't think they've thought it through.

Super League bosses will allow Bradford Bulls to finish the season as a new company even if the club goes into liquidation in the coming weeks.
This would avoid a scenario in which results from this year have to be expunged due to the club folding.
The club's licence would then be reviewed at the end of the season.
A Rugby Football League spokesman said: "We are working with the administrators to help Bradford Bulls out of administration."
The four-time Super League champions are ninth in the table with nine games left to play in the regular season.


Found this on the BBC site, what does it mean, will they have points deducted for going into administration or not?

If not it seems a bit unfair that Crusaders and WTW did when they went into admin? I'm confused.

Points will still be deducted as normal. There doing this to save loads of work and plus avoid arguments with other teams that have either played or not played yet and it would make a mess of this years competition. This way the actual playing side of things is not affected.

Would the potential buyer have to go through the RFL's 'fit and proper person' test as Andrew Glover did?

Surely this would rule out any of the previous Bradford directors from buying back the club, after the mess they have made.

I would prefer it if the RFL came out and explained how a club who they graded as a B 6 months ago, can be in this position!

At this stage they would probably rubber stamp Dick Turpin, if he promised to see the season through.
The longer term is of course a different matter.

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Interesting Wakefield aspect to the Bradford problems..

I cannot believe how deluded the Bulls fans are and how adverse they are to any kind of critisism
It's like the blind leading the bling on their forum

I think my next post on there will be "I Told You So"

We did tell them so. That's the problem. They were too pig headed to listen to people who'd been in the same situation 12 months ago!

and now, according to sportinglife.com, the RFL are going to help them even more - haven't they helped them enough?
This help will be at the loss of the other SL clubs.
They weren't there supporting us.
THIS ALL STINKS - HEY SHOULD BE LEFT TO SORT IT WITH THE SAME SUPPORT AS WE GOT.
One big rugby league family with a few prodigal sons!

They should receive the same help we got while in admin. Simple.

They have already had far more help than we had, but it hasn't worked.
Rest assured though, they will certainly receive plenty more before the job is sorted.
Although it shouldn't make a difference and size shouldn't matter, we do have to accept that
The Bulls have been one of the major forces in the SL era and thier loss would be felt far more than ours.