Re: INTERESTED PARTY : Tue Jul 10, 2012 9:09 am  

hi de hi wrote:

Why not?
If the public supported a Championship team and it did the job on the pitch then there is no reason not to get back in is there, unless you are suggesting that Super League is a closed shop as our friends from Halifax and Keighley have been saying for years.

Correct - Bradford is not expansion and the RFL have long stated expansion is their aim. If the Bulls did drop down the crowds would suffer and those that stay away will get there SL fix elsewhere, just like fax/cougar fans all them years ago.....

SL is a must

Re: INTERESTED PARTY : Tue Jul 10, 2012 9:17 am  

.....but not a right...or shouldn't be anyway

Re: INTERESTED PARTY : Tue Jul 10, 2012 9:37 am  

Bullpower2012 wrote:

Correct - Bradford is not expansion and the RFL have long stated expansion is their aim. If the Bulls did drop down the crowds would suffer and those that stay away will get there SL fix elsewhere, just like fax/cougar fans all them years ago.....

SL is a must

Expansion at SL level is finished for the forseeable future,even London are at deaths door. CC1 is the new expansion zone with the four new expansion teams entering the fray for next year to replace the top four this season who will be promoted to the Championship.

Re: INTERESTED PARTY : Tue Jul 10, 2012 9:44 am  

Blotto wrote:

The worry is that Asian businesses tend to operate on a low overhead high profit system of trading and the higher cost of most business is labour and they make sure thats as cheap as it can be. So Sport with high overheads inc labour and little profit is not going to cope well with the Asian business ethos.

Like those penny pinching football club owners?

[Bulliac]

Re: INTERESTED PARTY : Tue Jul 10, 2012 9:45 am  

One thing no one has yet mentioned is the possible boost the involvement of an Asian business could give to the club and RL in general. As yet, and I suspect for cultural reasons, the number of Asian fans and players is very low and the community is an (almost) untapped resource. If such a large number of people could be tempted to 'give the game a go' as spectators, maybe it could lead to more of them being players.

Re: INTERESTED PARTY : Tue Jul 10, 2012 9:46 am  

hi de hi wrote:

Expansion at SL level is finished for the forseeable future,even London are at deaths door. CC1 is the new expansion zone with the four new expansion teams entering the fray for next year to replace the top four this season who will be promoted to the Championship.

do you want to gamble our future on that?. strong rumours going round that big four (leeds,wire,wigan and sts) are in favour of toulouse getting our franchise should we get liquidated.

[Bulliac]

Re: INTERESTED PARTY : Tue Jul 10, 2012 9:49 am  

mat wrote:

do you want to gamble our future on that?. strong rumours going round that big four (leeds,wire,wigan and sts) are in favour of toulouse getting our franchise should we get liquidated.

I find it hard to believe that Leeds would vote for that.

Re: INTERESTED PARTY : Tue Jul 10, 2012 9:54 am  

Bulliac wrote:

I find it hard to believe that Leeds would vote for that.

think its only in the case of us getting liquidated. If we go newco route then assume they'd vote to keep us in. Think their going down route of getting a 2nd french club in is preferable to bringing fax or fev up.

light at end of tunnel? : Tue Jul 10, 2012 9:55 am  

http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/9807861.Bradford_Bulls_deadline_day__Latest_news/ like way guilfoyle takes credit for getting 10k to turn up. Think that would many would have turned up regardless of any input he had.

http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/9807861.Bradford_Bulls_deadline_day__Latest_news/ like way guilfoyle takes credit for getting 10k to turn up. Think that would many would have turned up regardless of any input he had.

Re: INTERESTED PARTY : Tue Jul 10, 2012 10:00 am  

mat wrote:

do you want to gamble our future on that?. strong rumours going round that big four (leeds,wire,wigan and sts) are in favour of toulouse getting our franchise should we get liquidated.

I'd rather gamble our future on a fan owned club starting in CC1 than gamble our future on Mr X with unknown reasons for buying the club if he /they are not supporters or RL people. I just think that the Super League at all costs attitude is not the way to go, unless of course we are all glory fans?