Re: super league to buy bulls : Thu Aug 02, 2012 4:25 pm  

Strong and decisive leadership?
What a load of nonsense.
The strong and decisive thing to do would have been to let nature take its course and support a new company.

Re: super league to buy bulls : Thu Aug 02, 2012 4:50 pm  

Well the RFL/SL have now shown the rest of the world what a shower or sh !t they are. Everyone will be laughing at how the whole thing is run.

Only problem is is that I doubt the RFL/SL actually give a sh 1t otherwise they wouldnt act as they do.

Re: super league to buy bulls : Thu Aug 02, 2012 5:24 pm  

never saw this coming!

and yet people still defend the RFL?

i am more glad today than ever that

no1. i am not a 'bulls fan'

and no2. that Fax are not in SL!

SUPERleague ya having a laugh!!!!!

Re: super league to buy bulls : Thu Aug 02, 2012 6:38 pm  

To be honest i actually think it is a disgrace, as Widnes where not allowed into Superleague the first time due to finances.I am behind the teams in the Championship,and i do believe even though my team are in Superleague the RFL are corrupt.Glasgow Rangers got no sympathy, and where Relegated, and now everyone looks at our Sport as a joke.

Re: super league to buy bulls : Thu Aug 02, 2012 7:32 pm  

The sad thing is that there are far too many (maybe not a majority) who are willing to accept what SL and Wood are proposing. I read a thread on the Virtual Terrace and left feeling depressed and hugely frustrated. And that sadly sums up how RL has become such a joke - because there hasnt been enough opposition to the ridiculous ideas that they have come up with and implemented.

Maybe a new supporter-led organisation needs creating which will fight to put a) some sense and respect back into the game and b) represent the view of supporters. Credibility of the game is being dragged even lower - didnt think it was possible - by the buffoons at Red Hall yet it seems there is little opposition.

Re: super league to buy bulls : Thu Aug 02, 2012 8:50 pm  

When I read about this I was shocked and appalled that this could happen. I then went away and thought about it, it all makes sense. I have not had a bang to the head.

One club cannot own another club that play in the same league as them. I believe, before we go into all the ramifications about creditors and the ABC group that the sports ministry would not allow it. They may not have the power to stop it but they can suggest to the RFL that if it happens then they would not make current financial aid available.

What could happen is, Super league clubs could own a club that play in a different competition to them, such as the Championship.

Bradford Bulls would then effectively be the first "Feeder club" for the super league.

Re: super league to buy bulls : Thu Aug 02, 2012 9:18 pm  

Farce.

RL will never ever be a national sport due to sorry episodes like this. Beyonf belief how that can choose to save one of their favourite sons while they are seemingly happy to leave other clubs they perceive to be basket cases go to the wall. Well, aren't Bradford now a basket case?

Re: super league to buy bulls : Thu Aug 02, 2012 10:01 pm  

Skipdog wrote:

So if this is only till the end of the season and then Bulls will be for sale again what happens if no-one comes in to buy them then when they have built up more debt,all the players have found teams for next season because of the insecurity?RFL is making itself a laughing stock,let Bradford go out of business and restart in championship 1 and let RL be seen to do the right thing by those clubs who have lived within their means,where volunteers work their socks off week in week out and the club survives by the skin of its teeth.No-one club is ,or should be,bigger than the sport of RL and it is time for the RFL to show some balls and sort this out the right way

No one club is bigger than RL but Nigel Wood is, in fact he is RL as he OWNS the game, he has everybody by the b@lls now with Franchises as you disagree with him and he can 'get you back'. This is a mockery as no governing body should get involved in a clubs ownership or ground, its a conflict of interest. I hate that man he is worse than a politician, in fact he is worse than the North Korean dictator!

Re: super league to buy bulls : Thu Aug 02, 2012 10:21 pm  

It's ok. With big nige in charge they'll be back in the s**t this time next week. He has form

Re: super league to buy bulls : Thu Aug 02, 2012 10:39 pm  

justthebasicfax wrote:

Strong and decisive leadership?
What a load of nonsense.
The strong and decisive thing to do would have been to let nature take its course and support a new company.

Only thing they've strengthened at Red Hall, are the chairs and the bog seat.