Corruption / incompetence I don't know

If Bradford have broken the rules and there is no censure or repercussions to them

Then god knows .... The administrators of our game will go to hades

The field is about as level as batley if it was nice and flat like belle vue who knows

It's outrageous that there appears to be no repercussions for the club going into administration barely 1 week before the start of the season. There needs to be consistency otherwise it breeds the smell of corruption! www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/wak ... -1-3054178 1/2/11....Wakefield, too, face a points penalty for breaching the RFL's insolvency regulations but are aiming to secure their long-term future under new owners and will be hoping the latest development will not do irreparable damage to their bid to land a new Super League licence in July.

It's outrageous that there appears to be no repercussions for the club going into administration barely 1 week before the start of the season. There needs to be consistency otherwise it breeds the smell of corruption! www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/wak ... -1-3054178 1/2/11....Wakefield, too, face a points penalty for breaching the RFL's insolvency regulations but are aiming to secure their long-term future under new owners and will be hoping the latest development will not do irreparable damage to their bid to land a new Super League licence in July.

I am at a loss for words. Totally fed up, exasperated and ed off. What hypocrisy!!

Is there nothing our Chairman or Acting Chief Exec can say or do or are we doomed to be treated differently again.

Just totally ed off.

system/software changed my word to vexed!!!!

But they didn't do that, they were sold by the Administrator. The company that used to employ all the players is now in Administration with no assets, the players now have a new employer (employment rights are preserved through TUPE). There is a load of guff being spouted about the club being transferred and it only being the club that used to own them that is in Admin and it is akin to an owner writing off debt. Problem is it seems OK did not agree to write off debt.

I am speculating here in thinking that this is a panic measure due to HMRC petition, however it appears OK has had his interests ignored in all this, not a good way to encourage investors into the sport. I cannot see how Bradford can avoid points deduction, currently it is looking something of a Farrago

Whatever the reason they have gone into admin and should be punished accordingly

Was it advertised? Did the administrator make his best efforts to get a good deal for creditors? Or was the whole thing stitched up around Nigel Woods outsized table, to get OK out of the way and clear the decks for the new owners?

I'm staggered at the lack of transparency in all of this and the brazen way in which the RFL appear willing to go to any lengths to protect the Bulls, whilst spewing out meaningless corporate puff to bamboozle the thick RL public.

I hope that our Chairman is on the phone to Red Hall on Monday morning, demanding an explanation for the difference in treatment of the two clubs; and if this is allowed to stand, what's to stop every club going into admin every off-season, casting off all of its debts and starting each new season afresh, with no penalties? Far-fetched, but there's a principle at stake here.

Carter at your place and Hughes at the Broncos have cut deep and lost many quality players to remain solvent. The bulls have kept virtually everyone and played the administration card.

With 2 down this year anything less than 6pt deduction is a disgrace. They should be relegated

This is the potential scenario, and one in which points shouldn't be deducted:

Club owner wants out. New owners found but won't pay club owner back what he put into it. New owners actually take over, but when agreed transfer of shares doesn't happen, old club owner gets the club back.

So the old club owner is stuck with a liability he doesn't want but faces losing all his investment. Only viable choice is to close the whole thing down. Not admin, but just closure.

So governing body steps in. They try and broker an agreement to allow the transfer and thinks it has it sorted, but old club owner won't go along with the agreement.

So to force the issue, the governing body suggests that the only legal way to do it is to go into administration and then transfer to a new company. The governing body does it as a last resort to stop a club being closed down.

It is not administration as we suffered it, or as the Bulls did in 2012. It is purely and simply a way of forcing the transfer to owners who actually want to run the club, or else it is chaos.

So this is the point: you can't deduct points from a club for following the advice of those in charge of deducting it. It wouldn't be right.

I'm not saying that's how it happened, but if it happened like that, I can live with it.

From the sound of the statement, the creditors will be paid. Just not Khan. My comments were about the points deduction, however, not the treatment of creditors.

I am doing my best to be charitable, because it is so easy to be knee-jerk when the full facts may make the decision understandable. The problem for the RFL is that explaining their role will be hard and so leads to suspicion and cries of foul play. What's the saying, justice should not only be done but manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done.

I am prepared to accept favouritism too, but not leaping straight onto the foul play bandwagon just yet.

What I am more interested in is whether they have received greater assistance than we would have had, and whether they have been propped up rather than being told to cut their cloth.

'as the board of directors have stated their intentions to continue to work with creditors'

That doesn't say to me that they are planning to pay up in full, it smacks to me of token gesture language where a few important suppliers will get their money, the others can sing for it. If they pay up IN FULL then fine i can see reasoning for no punishment. Anything less then it should be down like a ton of bricks job.

Richardsons want out
Richardsons can no longer fund the club
Richardsons want their money/investment back
New owners wont accept Richardsons terms
Administration ensues
New owner takes over
Creditors paid
6pt deduction becomes 4pts

Substitute Khan for Richardson,