Prepare yourselves... : Wed Jan 25, 2017 7:40 am  

...angry ****** are coming. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/jan/24/london-welsh-kicked-out-professional-rugby-union

...angry ****** are coming. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/jan/24/london-welsh-kicked-out-professional-rugby-union

Re: Prepare yourselves... : Wed Jan 25, 2017 8:16 am  

Karma...

Re: Prepare yourselves... : Wed Jan 25, 2017 8:18 am  

They played at Old Deer Park. Old Deer Park has a bowling club. Seriously.

Re: Prepare yourselves... : Wed Jan 25, 2017 8:27 am  

For the more blinkered/mouth-foaming Fax/Wakey/Hudds fans...

They failed to cut their cloth and needed to realise they were no longer a big club, shouldn't have spent money they didn't have, how arrogant were they thinking they should have success given to them, decades of mis-management, karma!!...They were never really a big successful club anyway, just a flash in the pan for 10 years, never won anything before that....shouldn't they have learnt lessons?

There, saved you a job so don't let us detain you

Re: Prepare yourselves... : Wed Jan 25, 2017 8:56 am  

The irony is that with all the money sloshing about in Union the RFU could afford to let a Club go to the wall, whereas the RFL through strapped for cash in comparison found it too difficult to let that happen at Bradford, though LW tended to be a nomadic Club with no real roots as opposed to Bradford, also it would have been interesting to see how they would have approached it if Leicester Tigers were in that sort of financial strife!

Re: Prepare yourselves... : Wed Jan 25, 2017 9:06 am  

You can almost hear blood boiling in Siddal, Sandal and Salendine Nook.

Re: Prepare yourselves... : Wed Jan 25, 2017 9:12 am  

According to the Guardian they failed to provide proof of funds or an adequate business plan. Presumably Bradford's owners did hence the different outcomes. Apples and Pears.

Re: Prepare yourselves... : Wed Jan 25, 2017 9:15 am  

Maybe they didn't have an iconic stadium

[Bullseye]

Re: Prepare yourselves... : Wed Jan 25, 2017 9:19 am  

alleycat wrote:

According to the Guardian they failed to provide proof of funds or an adequate business plan. Presumably Bradford's owners did hence the different outcomes. Apples and Pears.

No that's far too logical an answer. You're not getting into the spirit of things at all.

Re: Prepare yourselves... : Wed Jan 25, 2017 9:34 am  

They're Welsh? Maybe the RFU wanted the WRU to do the bailing?