Re: Administration 3 - now in technicolour : Fri Dec 16, 2016 7:34 am  

Very surprised at how this has gone. I know Bradford have been stumbling along for about 4 years but I always thought they'd get back eventually. Always been known as the club with the biggest pack in the game.

And I thought we'd had a bad year! Good luck, I hope something can be agreed in the final hours.

Re: Administration 3 - now in technicolour : Fri Dec 16, 2016 7:44 am  

My main/only hope is that the discussions between the RFL and the administrator are more constructive than the RFL statement. The statement has a huge contradiction in it, when they say they are looking to safeguard the future of RL in Bradford, if they are not making any more positive noises privately, they are condemning the city to no professional RL side

Re: Administration 3 - now in technicolour : Fri Dec 16, 2016 7:54 am  

Keighley is in the City of Bradford MDC area and the Cougars are now building back on a firm foundation. We don't like the Bulls as they are our local rivals and Bullmania was built on Cougarmania's unfair destruction. BUT, having said all that, no RL fan wants to see another club disappear. Hard for a Keighley fan to say it, but RL needs a good Bradford Northern club.

Re: Administration 3 - now in technicolour : Fri Dec 16, 2016 8:13 am  

Good luck hope it works out well and you survive

Re: Administration 3 - now in technicolour : Fri Dec 16, 2016 8:32 am  

I think the RFL statement is cleverly worded. They want RL in Bradford but not necessarily via the current Company. Maybe a new lease with Bradford Northern Bulls Ltd is the way in which they want it to end.

Re: Administration 3 - now in technicolour : Fri Dec 16, 2016 8:33 am  

Why do I get the feeling that today will come and go with absolutely no announcement being made?

Re: Administration 3 - now in technicolour : Fri Dec 16, 2016 8:44 am  

Nothus wrote:

Why do I get the feeling that today will come and go with absolutely no announcement being made?

Because the Administrators won't want to "ruin our Christmas with bad news" when the reality is they have an office Christmas party to pay for?

Re: Administration 3 - now in technicolour : Fri Dec 16, 2016 8:48 am  

Cross Hills Cougar wrote:

Keighley is in the City of Bradford MDC area and the Cougars are now building back on a firm foundation. We don't like the Bulls as they are our local rivals and Bullmania was built on Cougarmania's unfair destruction. BUT, having said all that, no RL fan wants to see another club disappear. Hard for a Keighley fan to say it, but RL needs a good Bradford Northern club.

Apologies, of course Keighley is I need the MDC area, but in the recognized city boundaries, Bulls is the only game in the city. We forgive you for using our 21 year old title

Re: Administration 3 - now in technicolour : Fri Dec 16, 2016 8:56 am  

Nothus wrote:

Why do I get the feeling that today will come and go with absolutely no announcement being made?

The same thing has crossed my mind too. Even if an announcement does come, I expect it to be this evening after everyone's been frantically refreshing Twitter and the Bulls website all day.

Re: Administration 3 - now in technicolour : Fri Dec 16, 2016 9:18 am  

RFL have agreed to pay December salaries in order to give more time for a sale to be finalized, surely they would not have agreed to this unless a deal was very close to been agreed. I understand that the RFL have been very helpful and worked very closely with the administrator in order to ensure that a sale can be achieved.