Our sport is becoming so utterly contrived both on and off the field of play, that the game of RL has become unnecessary.
The whole issue surrounding the Bulls has been an on going embarrassment for 3 years (since they were awarded a licences showing a "b" against its financial position.
Why should we expect a change of direction, either from The RFL or, the Bradford Club.
They have been taking the mickey for 3 years plus and the governing body of the sport just hasn't got the balls to deal with them properly.

As someone posted earlier, their 6 points should be doubled just for the plain cheek of their appeal.

What more could they do to bring shame to the sport ?

I didn't see Boots n All, but there was nothing on Backchat. I can't imagine Phil Clarke using poor wording. He's a bright bloke, and if the paraphrase is correct that suggests at new developments. "We have heard" are the relevant parts.

I'm just sick of the annual scrap to make a silk purse out of a sows ear. I still love the game. I'm just a bit worn out by the constant survival mode.

Whilst I agree that we should be able to and have to stand in SL on our own merits, this whole sorry saga is typical of the embarrassmnt of the sporting body that we have. The time for appeals is not weeks and weeks later, when we have been looking at league tables and planning team choices, loan deals, spending plans etc based on a situation we thought we had, only to find it may or has changed. This is WRONG! It is just bad sport administration and another reason why I get sicker by the season with the Rugby Football League

Contrived. A good word for it and I could not agree more. This started with the underhanded onset of SL 1995. It went a stage further with the removal of promotion and relegation and took a really cheat based twist before that when we were grudgingly allowed in SL 99 with less money than the rest. The game needs to retun to its true, honest sport roots that it forgot about when Lindsay et al took it over and prostituted it to Murdock and the Sky paymasters. Ok so I sound old. OK so 'The Product' is good at times...but contrived it is. Well said

I wouldn't worry guys. Unless they decide we should have all 6 points back and a further 10 for good luck you are safe.

can't wait for the RFL to cry fix

I'm with MC on this; if there was to be an appeal allowed, the whole mess needed sorting out much more quickly. Furthermore, there appears to be no jeopardy to lodging the appeal, which is perverse.

As it stands, they've allowed an appeal; if the basis of that appeal is 'force majeure,' I'd chuck it out without even hearing it; there is no reasonable way that the financial situation at Bradford could be described as 'unforeseen and unavoidable' - that's beyond stupid and as MC says, makes a mockery of what he had to do to keep WTW in the competition.

Nothing to worry about then surely? Which makes MC's unprofessional comments even more unnecessary in my eyes.

I agree bully boxer MC should have stayed stum. A rant that wasn't required in my view.

I don't suppose he'll lose any sleep over what Bradford fans think; he's more likely to lose sleep over the fact that he had to put his house on the line to keep the club in SL, whist Bradford were happy to fiddle whilst Odsal burned.

His comments are, in my view, entirely understandable and completely justified.

Totally disagree.
He made a point that needed to be made and rightly so.
The game has become a pantomime solely to keep the administrators of the farce in jobs.
When did anyone last see Woodsy at a game?

Woodsy weakened all the barriers down at belle vue..........allegedly

M C statement if in fact he did make it achieve nothing and will not sway any decision made.
Hes achieved nothing by making it.

You'd hope not, though you expect a bit more professionalism from another SL club chairman. No other chairman has to my knowledge made public comment on the appeal. If they have they certainly haven't threatened to walk out on their club if they don't agree with the independent panels decision. I expect he quietly regrets making the comments, it hasn't shown him in a great light whether you agree with what he said or not.

No other club were told they would drop out of SL if they went into Admin.