Re: 6 Bulls. : Thu Feb 27, 2014 9:20 am  

I would just like to point out that all of the previous posters have forgot to put that they feel sorry for the genuine Bulls supporters. Please all do the edit asap!

Re: 6 Bulls. : Thu Feb 27, 2014 9:28 am  

and with regard to the Bulls....

The club deserve everything they get.
The fans don't though.

Ultimately it's ther money the club has squandered without a care in the world, I agree with TRB's comments but you can't expect anything other from reading the bradford board than immense anger and upset.

Deep down they know that the RFL have don'e everything they culd for the Bulls over the last 18 months but enough is enough - they can't keep draining the sport's governing body simply becasue they don't want to cut their cloth

Re: 6 Bulls. : Thu Feb 27, 2014 9:57 am  

DAVE@CAS1990 wrote:

and with regard to the Bulls....

The club deserve everything they get.
The fans don't though.

Ultimately it's ther money the club has squandered without a care in the world, I agree with TRB's comments but you can't expect anything other from reading the bradford board than immense anger and upset.

Deep down they know that the RFL have don'e everything they culd for the Bulls over the last 18 months but enough is enough - they can't keep draining the sport's governing body simply becasue they don't want to cut their cloth

You are right of course, but how can you do one without the other?
FWIW i think as we speak, the rfl are planning a prefered takeover at the Bulls and once completed the points deduction will be reduced to at the most four points and the other sanctions will be removed as the new owners will agree to pay some debt...perhaps the £170k owed to HMRC.
All will then be back to normal in the stage managed world of SL, the Bulls fans will be happy and so it will go on...

Hows that for a conspiracy? you read it here first!!!

Re: 6 Bulls. : Thu Feb 27, 2014 10:15 am  

I think you might be onto something - I said that if the Bulls finish (for argument's sake) 2 points behind Wakefield - they'd find "new evidence" which would mean a reduction in the points docked.

I got a laugh but I'm not ruling it out

Re: 6 Bulls. : Thu Feb 27, 2014 10:44 am  

Everyone I converse with just cannot understand, how Trinity on the verge of administration had to restructure etc ,yet the Bulls actually in administration, can talk about keeping squad together and even bringing players in.
Baffled.

Re: 6 Bulls. : Thu Feb 27, 2014 11:57 am  

jacques wrote:

Everyone I converse with just cannot understand, how Trinity on the verge of administration had to restructure etc ,yet the Bulls actually in administration, can talk about keeping squad together and even bringing players in.
Baffled.

obviously we got the wrong Administrators in at Wakey just our luck . Bradford have had 2 different administrators and managed to keep their players apart from two who decided enough is enough and jumped ship.

Re: 6 Bulls. : Thu Feb 27, 2014 2:05 pm  

PopTart wrote:

I don't get the RHP comment. He is trying to help a club he loves from going under. He hasn't been involved in the cause at all.
Why is his credibility shot?

You yourself have pinned your colours to the Trinity mast when in trouble.
Do you think that has affected your credibility?

Yes - at times. But I can only tell you what I am told / can find out - RHP is part of the management and has continued to tell the world how they were all sorted; how they were 'ring-fencing' the squad and then BANG!

He has been tripping around the truth - and yes, it bothers me when my club is on the line too!

Re: 6 Bulls. : Thu Feb 27, 2014 2:19 pm  

I have to say, he was on the SL show sounding extremely positive - but I would imagine there was nothing he could really divulge so had to give vague, generic answers.

If you watch it back, as I have done (casue I'm sad) he doesn't really answer what Tanya asks him, almost as if the BOD have given him a card and said "say this, only this, and nothing but this".

I think RHP is a great asset of the game and he is a jewel in their fairly wonky crown right now IMO. His experience may be lacking but I'm sure he is doing the best he can for the club.

The "ring fence" sham was just to buy time I think. Any potential investors will see them as a more appealing business venture if they have their major assets (i.e. players) intact

Re: 6 Bulls. : Thu Feb 27, 2014 2:33 pm  

DAVE@CAS1990 wrote:

I have to say, he was on the SL show sounding extremely positive - but I would imagine there was nothing he could really divulge so had to give vague, generic answers.

If you watch it back, as I have done (casue I'm sad) he doesn't really answer what Tanya asks him, almost as if the BOD have given him a card and said "say this, only this, and nothing but this".

I think RHP is a great asset of the game and he is a jewel in their fairly wonky crown right now IMO. His experience may be lacking but I'm sure he is doing the best he can for the club.

The "ring fence" sham was just to buy time I think. Any potential investors will see them as a more appealing business venture if they have their major assets (i.e. players) intact

Unless it is a direct instruction from The RFL, I don't see how the administrator could ring fence their assets if someone offered the right money.
Crikey, the administrators couldn't wait to sell our players off and they didn't get anywhere near market price.
One issue that has not had a mention up to now but, where is the administrator getting his income from, baring in mind there is no ST revenue and heavily reduced numbers turning up to watch, it is likely that The RFL are funding them ??, which begs the question as to just how long they can, or will continue.
First of all they had 28 days (now expired) but someone with very deep pockets is going to have to come along real soon.

Re: 6 Bulls. : Thu Feb 27, 2014 2:48 pm  

Wrenny, I was suggesting that the club released the "ring-fence" sham as a smoke screen to keep clubs away from approaching the administrator for as long as possible, rather than the administrator released that statement.

Like a false deterrent that might buy them time to find new investment.

Can the investors use players as leverage? Offering them round? or do clubs have to formally approach the administrators directly?

Also, I thought OK Bulls were liquidated, so does the club even exist right now? (sounds silly but a genuine question)