Re: Administration 3 - now in technicolour : Tue Dec 20, 2016 9:11 am  

Any chance we can just wait to see what happens today please?

Whatever decisions are made, I'm quite confident that none of them will be made by anybody on here.

Re: Administration 3 - now in technicolour : Tue Dec 20, 2016 9:14 am  

Sensei-Bull wrote:

Any chance we can just wait to see what happens today please?

Whatever decisions are made, I'm quite confident that none of them will be made by anybody on here.

Might not even be today knowing how many extension's the administrator has already given

Re: Administration 3 - now in technicolour : Tue Dec 20, 2016 9:14 am  

Sensei-Bull wrote:

Any chance we can just wait to see what happens today please?

Whatever decisions are made, I'm quite confident that none of them will be made by anybody on here.

You mean like we've been asked to on several occasions already? I wont hold my breath.

If this rumbles on much longer, the administrator is going to become our biggest creditor!

Re: Administration 3 - now in technicolour : Tue Dec 20, 2016 9:35 am  

IF some brave soul was up for starting a brand new Bulls Phoenix club from scratch - why on earth would they even be involved or anywhere near this mess? Any such person would sit back and wait. If the Bulls survive - opportunity gone. If they liquidate - you have a genuinely clean slate and are untainted by the process of bidding.

As said, that new club would be nothing at all to do with the old club, though. It would have no ground, no assets, no team, no money and no pot to mickey in. I'm sure a hardy band of fans, in the tens or even a couple of hundred, would join such a ride, maybe they could ask the Council if they could start off by playing on the field at the side of Cleckheaton Road, to try to preserve some sort of spiritual connection, and get changed in a minibus. But it would not be within a few light years of the Bradford club I have supported for so long, and would be of no interest to me.

A brand new phoenix club with genuine money, going for it big-time a la Toronto, even from C1, yes. A basically semi-amateur startup - no thanks.

Re: Administration 3 - now in technicolour : Tue Dec 20, 2016 9:42 am  

RickyF1 wrote:

Might not even be today knowing how many extension's the administrator has already given

I didn't say that it would be resolved today. Just asking for a little patience.

I've stopped following this thread as it reminds me of a long car journey with the kids.

"Are we there yet?"
"How long now?"
"Are we there yet?
"How long now?"
"Are we there yet?"
"Daddy, Sam's wiped a bogey in my hair"

I'm fed up with it all too, but in the end all I want is the best person to own the club.
If that takes a while then so be it...

Re: Administration 3 - now in technicolour : Tue Dec 20, 2016 9:45 am  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

IF some brave soul was up for starting a brand new Bulls Phoenix club from scratch - why on earth would they even be involved or anywhere near this mess? Any such person would sit back and wait. If the Bulls survive - opportunity gone. If they liquidate - you have a genuinely clean slate and are untainted by the process of bidding.

I wonder if that is Gareth Roberts plan, meeting with council and RFL after xmas. We will either have a new owner or be non existant then.

[Pumpetypump]

Re: Administration 3 - now in technicolour : Tue Dec 20, 2016 9:45 am  

Sensei-Bull wrote:

I didn't say that it would be resolved today. Just asking for a little patience.

I've stopped following this thread as it reminds me of a long car journey with the kids.

"Are we there yet?"
"How long now?"
"Are we there yet?
"How long now?"
"Are we there yet?"
"Daddy, Sam's wiped a bogey in my hair"

I'm fed up with it all too, but in the end all I want is the best person to own the club.
If that takes a while then so be it...

The way I see it, it's a 200+ page thread because we care. We thought we were apathetic but it turns out we were probably lying.

I'd rather we waffle and guess our way through it together than stay away in the forlorn hope of certainty. But it's each to their own.

Re: Administration 3 - now in technicolour : Tue Dec 20, 2016 9:47 am  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

IF some brave soul was up for starting a brand new Bulls Phoenix club from scratch - why on earth would they even be involved or anywhere near this mess? Any such person would sit back and wait. If the Bulls survive - opportunity gone. If they liquidate - you have a genuinely clean slate and are untainted by the process of bidding.

As said, that new club would be nothing at all to do with the old club, though. It would have no ground, no assets, no team, no money and no pot to mickey in. I'm sure a hardy band of fans, in the tens or even a couple of hundred, would join such a ride, maybe they could ask the Council if they could start off by playing on the field at the side of Cleckheaton Road, to try to preserve some sort of spiritual connection, and get changed in a minibus. But it would not be within a few light years of the Bradford club I have supported for so long, and would be of no interest to me.

A brand new phoenix club with genuine money, going for it big-time a la Toronto, even from C1, yes. A basically semi-amateur startup - no thanks.

I agree with that. To be honest, even without the name of Bradford Bulls or Northern, I'm going to struggle to form an emotional attachment to a club that isn't the one I've grown up with. The only way I'm going to be fooled into thinking it's the same is if it continues to be Bulls or Northern and is still playing at Odsal in at least Champ 1. Anything else just wouldn't feel like the club I love and I don't think I'd be that bothered about it, other than it might be my destination of choice if I fancy watching a match every now and again.

Let's hope it doesn't come to that.

Re: Administration 3 - now in technicolour : Tue Dec 20, 2016 9:53 am  

HamsterChops wrote:

I agree with that. To be honest, even without the name of Bradford Bulls or Northern, I'm going to struggle to form an emotional attachment to a club that isn't the one I've grown up with. The only way I'm going to be fooled into thinking it's the same is if it continues to be Bulls or Northern and is still playing at Odsal in at least Champ 1. Anything else just wouldn't feel like the club I love and I don't think I'd be that bothered about it, other than it might be my destination of choice if I fancy watching a match every now and again.

Let's hope it doesn't come to that.

What he said...

Re: Administration 3 - now in technicolour : Tue Dec 20, 2016 10:00 am  

Looking at the report in the T&A if the RFL want to keep the lease we are screwed!