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Disgusts me. What a joke this game is turning out to be. We've been in their position with many other clubs and know how hard it was. We were one of the lucky few who found a bidder.

We were turned down for licensing last time around because our finances the year before where bad. Now here's a team financed by superleague clubs who this year where planning on operating at a million pound loss.

I hate seeing teams fold and fade away but you cannot have rules for some clubs and exceptions for a couple more. You abide by the rules and if you don't you deserve the punishment every other club got handed to them and if that means Bradford have to restart in the championship, then so be it.

I feel for Leigh and Halifax fans. I would just give up I were them

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Agree abit unfair on Fax and Leigh etc and we never got bailed out.Even Glasgow Rangers in football got hammered.

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To be honest the more I think of it the more it annoys me. Every club that goes into meltdown gets treated differently and some are not just offered help it's to the detriment of the other clubs. Yet others are allowed to quietly drift into oblivion. It was the major point used to held us back from entering super league and yet other clubs in super league with all the benefits it has are allowed to stay.

Bradford outbid others including us for players when they were clearly struggling for cash. They offered season tickets and matchday tickets for extremely low prices, in an all or nothing risky strategy. They've put out consistently poorer and poorer teams and paid over the odds for the privilege. They are still playing in one of the ugliest stadiums in rugby league when others have been urged to move from theirs. And now it all ends as was expected and they're bailed out like no team has before.

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Still shocked! This is so, so wrong!

I could understand then offering to cover wages until seasons end but buying them??? WTF! It's a loss running business now on the SL books for a start.

Sends out such an awful message for the game too especially when you look at how strong the SPL have just been with a far bigger and more important club to their top flight.

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Quote: J20 "Still shocked! This is so, so wrong!

I could understand then offering to cover wages until seasons end but buying them??? WTF! It's a loss running business now on the SL books for a start.

Sends out such an awful message for the game too especially when you look at how strong the SPL have just been with a far bigger and more important club to their top flight.'"


All that record profit the RFL was boasting about down the toilet to save the Bulls. And where were they when we needed them?

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I really want Bradford to survive, but not like this! It does highlight the shambollic way RL is run and how its one rule (bended or broken) for the Bulls and another for the rest of us.

Bad decision and an embaressment to the game in my humble opinion.

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To be too quick to blame the RFL the sl clubs voted for this.

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Quote: WVRLCMatt "To be too quick to blame the RFL the sl clubs voted for this.'"


I am annoyed Widnes went along with it.

But let's be honest we all know how these votes work! You basically get told what to do! Plus Leeds won't have wanted to lose one of their biggest crowds...

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I don't think that they were told what to do, what leverage do the RFL have over the clubs it's not like they could kick them out for not voting the right way as that would show blatant corruption. They can't block funding as that would be a detriment to the product and the league. Nigel Woods can't threaten to leave the sport as that would be a good thing.

Most club voted that way because they wanted the away crowds that Bradford bring and the slight possibility of a reduction in sky money.

It's not right that Bradford are being bailed out when other clubs were left to rot but to blame the RFL when the Super League Clubs including our own have as much a hand in this is rubbish.

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If im being honest I couldn't give a rats , Widnes is all I care about.

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Quote: -VIKINGMAN- "If im being honest I couldn't give a rats booty, Widnes is all I care about.'"

The Mighty Vikings are the rising tide, spent forces like SLE Bulls Ltd and Warrington 'wolfs' are yesterdays news icon_biggrin.gif

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Quote: -VIKINGMAN- "If im being honest I couldn't give a rats booty, Widnes is all I care about.'"

Yep spot on nobody give two toots when we was going under , nobody wanted to help , at least celtic crusaders done the honourable thing!signing players on 5yr contracts WTF! how did they fool the RFL with there figgers to reaply for Licence !bet they new all about it Corupt id say , Thinking SOC £10,000 donation was for nothing nowing they had more debt than first known B-----ks i say eusa_snooty.gif

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I do think the sport is a big joke.The Scottish league demoted Glasgow Rangers to Division 3.No sympathy except for the fans who have been lied too.Be like Widnes spending 3 million on the cap and winning everything, then we go bust and saved by the RFL. eusa_clap.gif icon_lol.gif

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Ah but Bradford won the league once upon a time, which apparently makes them iconic and thus indespensible. In the same way that I once beat a doctor in a drinking game and im now immortal. That seems to be the logic behind this anyway.

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Quote: Snake Plisskin "Ah but Bradford won the league once upon a time, which apparently makes them iconic and thus indespensible. In the same way that I once beat a doctor in a drinking game and im now immortal. That seems to be the logic behind this anyway.'"


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