[Bullseye]

Re: Administration Again : Tue Nov 15, 2016 11:35 am  

fun time frankie wrote:

Seeing as you seem to have assembled a decent squad what happens to the players contracts with you going into administration are they honoured can the administrators get rid of playrrs

Depends.

First time around all stayed put initially as the admin thought it meant a better chance of getting a buyer I think.

It was similar second time around IIRC.

However it may not happen that way and players often slip through the net like Craig Kopout.

Re: Administration Again : Tue Nov 15, 2016 11:48 am  

Bullseye wrote:

... players often slip through the net like Craig Kopout.

Gareth Carvell
Jarrod Sammut
Nick Scruton

Re: Administration Again : Tue Nov 15, 2016 11:49 am  

I see the RFL now having a dilemma over the current situation. With the season starting 6 weeks after Xmas this administration must be done with fairly quickly as the RFL need to be sure they have clubs to fulfill fixtures. I would think sadly there may be a small chance of the RFL revoking the Bulls RFL membership if it is not sorted quickly and bringing a club up from League 1 (Barrow). Placing the Bulls in League 1 when and only when a takeover is finalised. The timing of this could go against the Bulls. Hope it doesn't but you have to admit this is faintly possible.

Re: Administration Again : Tue Nov 15, 2016 12:26 pm  

mystic eddie wrote:

Indeed. As I said, I could not see the issue "at that time" with Mr Green. That was two years ago.

Still, desperation having two year old quotes to bring up FA.

I struggle to see your point in all honesty.

It's because you always turn up in times of crisis just to pompously claim how you "called it" etc., and here you are again. Well, you didn't call it, and you have no grounds at all to slag off RAB posters in relation to Green, yet you have done. Basically your post is weirdly blaming everyone on here for the Bulls' demise, and for not listening to you. As if there was anything anyone on here could have done to influence the events with Green. Deluded and boring.

Re: Administration Again : Tue Nov 15, 2016 12:28 pm  

DemonUK wrote:

I see the RFL now having a dilemma over the current situation. With the season starting 6 weeks after Xmas this administration must be done with fairly quickly as the RFL need to be sure they have clubs to fulfill fixtures. I would think sadly there may be a small chance of the RFL revoking the Bulls RFL membership if it is not sorted quickly and bringing a club up from League 1 (Barrow). Placing the Bulls in League 1 when and only when a takeover is finalised. The timing of this could go against the Bulls. Hope it doesn't but you have to admit this is faintly possible.

Possible? On the contrary, I'll be amazed if we come out of the other side of this one in anything like our current version. Our concern on here is more whether we can survive at all, and has been for some months, and certainly since the criminal Featherstone debacle.

Re: Administration Again : Tue Nov 15, 2016 12:32 pm  

DemonUK wrote:

I see the RFL now having a dilemma over the current situation. With the season starting 6 weeks after Xmas this administration must be done with fairly quickly as the RFL need to be sure they have clubs to fulfill fixtures. I would think sadly there may be a small chance of the RFL revoking the Bulls RFL membership if it is not sorted quickly and bringing a club up from League 1 (Barrow). Placing the Bulls in League 1 when and only when a takeover is finalised. The timing of this could go against the Bulls. Hope it doesn't but you have to admit this is faintly possible.

Reading the RFL statement it sounds like you maybe right. The statement is worded to suggest they have had enough and that they will be looking at other clubs interests first.

"In these circumstances the RFL will always seek to support a club in difficulty for the sake of those directly affected and also on behalf of the Chairmen and Boards of well managed clubs who deserve stability"

Bulls going into League 1 would actually cost a fair few teams thousands in revenue. I doubt Batley, Fev, Halifax, etc v Barrow would be the kind of draw that the Bulls is to them, and the attendances would reflect this.

I fear the worst is yet to come.

However if the club was to be kicked into League 1, why not simply start again without any ties to anything. Bradford Northern 2016, they is nothing that really means the club should bend over backwards. SL status is gone unlike on the other 2 admins, the central funding is as low as it will be anyhow and a years newly formed in league 1 is no worse than having the milstones round the Bulls neck from the RFL in the Championship with little chance of a top 4 finish.

Re: Administration Again : Tue Nov 15, 2016 12:32 pm  

People always say its the players and employees that are worst hit. I disagree. Most will get employment elsewhere. The demise of a club hits fans the worst. Most will just give up on RL completely rather than start supporting a different team.

I fear for our own future if we fail promotion next year. A difference though, is Hull only has 2 teams competing for financial backing in a 20 mile radius. In West Yorks, its about 9 across all 'pro' leagues.

Good luck, wouldn't want Northern to go bust, even as a Rovers fan.

[Pumpetypump]

Re: Administration Again : Tue Nov 15, 2016 12:38 pm  

BD20 wrote:

"In these circumstances the RFL will always seek to support a club in difficulty for the sake of those directly affected and also on behalf of the Chairmen and Boards of well managed clubs who deserve stability"

Well that's a bit rich coming from a body that keeps insisting we take the offer from blokes with no bloody money!

BD20 wrote:

However if the club was to be kicked into League 1, why not simply start again without any ties to anything. Bradford Northern 2016, they is nothing that really means the club should bend over backwards. SL status is gone unlike on the other 2 admins, the central funding is as low as it will be anyhow and a years newly formed in league 1 is no worse than having the milstones round the Bulls neck from the RFL in the Championship with little chance of a top 4 finish.

We start on minus 12 and that's the top 4 effectively out of reach. So that's a season where we know we can achieve nothing and the resulting apathy from fans simply exacerbates the financial predicament for whatever owner emerges. Or we go genuinely bust and emerge in Championship 1 with some new places to visit.

Which do people prefer?

Re: Administration Again : Tue Nov 15, 2016 12:41 pm  

Seems Mark Lawn fancies taking over the ex football owner

Re: Administration Again : Tue Nov 15, 2016 12:42 pm  

Pumpetypump wrote:

Well that's a bit rich coming from a body that keeps insisting we take the offer from blokes with no bloody money!

We start on minus 12 and that's the top 4 effectively out of reach. So that's a season where we know we can achieve nothing and the resulting apathy from fans simply exacerbates the financial predicament for whatever owner emerges. Or we go genuinely bust and emerge in Championship 1 with some new places to visit.

Which do people prefer?

Second option at Horsfall Stadium. Ditch Odsal, the Bulls and bring back the Northern moniker. Bring a sad and sorry episode to an end.