Re: Phoenix from the flames? : Sat Jan 07, 2017 10:50 pm  

fifty50 wrote:

Given the criteria laid out by the RFL for new ownership and the current situation regarding playing and coaching staff there is absolutely no chance of a new owner being found. It's just not practically possible.

Rfl seem stuck between a rock and a hard place.
If they set the bar to low your club ends up in administration if they set it to high no one is prepared to put the money in

Re: Phoenix from the flames? : Sat Jan 07, 2017 11:21 pm  

j.c wrote:

Rfl seem stuck between a rock and a hard place.
If they set the bar to low your club ends up in administration if they set it to high no one is prepared to put the money in

Yep my heart bleeds for them.

[Bullseye]

Re: Phoenix from the flames? : Sat Jan 07, 2017 11:34 pm  

I'd be interested to know how a club could break even. I think that's impossible without substantial injections of cash to cover the ground upkeep. A SL club couldn't manage it with crowds of 10k.

Fantasy. Especially to expect supporter input after all the upset of the past 5 years.

This club is dead unless someone like a Ken Davy is prepared to prop it up or if it moves to a new home. Even then I have my doubts. Where would a new club go? Horsfall? If so it would be resigned to a part time future in front of crowds of a few hundred with no way of aspiring to anything better.

I see parallels with Hudders in the 80s. A club with a proud history but fallen on hard times playing in an antiquated stadium.

Re: Phoenix from the flames? : Sun Jan 08, 2017 12:08 am  

Smack him Jimmy wrote:

Yep my heart bleeds for them.

So what do you want them to do?

Re: Phoenix from the flames? : Sun Jan 08, 2017 12:14 am  

j.c wrote:

Rfl seem stuck between a rock and a hard place.
If they set the bar to low your club ends up in administration if they set it to high no one is prepared to put the money in

They're panicking I doubt the long term future of the club has come into their thinking right now.

They always seem to be firefighting and this is no different.

Re: Phoenix from the flames? : Sun Jan 08, 2017 12:16 am  

Interesting quote from Welham in the Guardian today.

Welham: "We were getting no answers to these questions from the people in charge of the administration and, to make matters worse, we were getting fed lies from people who said they knew what was happening all the time."

Stu Duffy as GM told the players the club would be the richest in Rugby League. The players, my son included all bought it and look what happend. False hope is dangerous.

Re: Phoenix from the flames? : Sun Jan 08, 2017 12:20 am  

Bullseye wrote:

I'd be interested to know how a club could break even. I think that's impossible without substantial injections of cash to cover the ground upkeep. A SL club couldn't manage it with crowds of 10k.

Fantasy. Especially to expect supporter input after all the upset of the past 5 years.

This club is dead unless someone like a Ken Davy is prepared to prop it up or if it moves to a new home. Even then I have my doubts. Where would a new club go? Horsfall? If so it would be resigned to a part time future in front of crowds of a few hundred with no way of aspiring to anything better.

I see parallels with Hudders in the 80s. A club with a proud history but fallen on hard times playing in an antiquated stadium.

Ken Davy wouldn't invest in our club. He may be generous on the face of it with the Giants but he's also not stupid.

His own company have offices at the ground (they used to not sure if they still do). He made a few quid out of selling town and their shares in the ground on.

The current Bulls lost over a million quid in year one of green's tenure and it was the year we went down so the cash wasn't spent on players. That is completely unsustainable.

Speaking of green seen the Instagram post from Alex Simmons today? First meeting of the Yorkshire spurs fan club (Leeds Spurs). With a photo of its members. Simmons, some other bloke and that piece of poop green.

Re: Phoenix from the flames? : Sun Jan 08, 2017 12:25 am  

Who's the nice bloke at the back?... https://www.instagram.com/p/BO97qnrgPcJKCWo-epkDdXj6e88oYzemoa0Qzc0/

Who's the nice bloke at the back?... https://www.instagram.com/p/BO97qnrgPcJKCWo-epkDdXj6e88oYzemoa0Qzc0/

Re: Phoenix from the flames? : Sun Jan 08, 2017 12:41 am  

What happened to the guy with the waste processing plant proposal ?

WTF did the RFL not agree to a 3 way deal, RFL & 2 interested parties ?

Sell the lease to the $hithole to the waste guy, he buys the land & stadium from Bradford Council, he bulldozes the lot & builds his plant.

RFL get ££££ for lease & agree Bulls can groundshare & start 2017 in CH1 with new owner & ground share somewhere affordable.

Promote the highest placed CH1 Club to take Bulls slot.

Council get money, RFL get money, Bulls get to survive & rebuild properly, albeit from CH1, whats the £€CK!N' problem ? Everyone is satisfied (at differing levels).

Is this too simplistic a view or completely unworkable ?

Yours in sport.

Re: Phoenix from the flames? : Sun Jan 08, 2017 12:50 am  

Maccbull_BigBullyBooaza wrote:

They're panicking I doubt the long term future of the club has come into their thinking right now.

They always seem to be firefighting and this is no different.

Its ridiculous how toxic your club is. The rfl should never have got involved with the clubs problems but they did..

What more is there to say until some one genuine steps forward?