Re: Fat nige : Sat Jun 03, 2017 12:56 pm  

bowlingboy wrote:

Mick has posted on Twitter big nige is stepping down at the end of the year.
Does this mean the rumour that he is coming on board is true?

Why can't we just get an owner with loads of brass and swerve controversy?

The Halifax, Wakey, Hudds fans will go into meltdown if we somehow swerve relegation and he comes on board..

the big greedy get has got money he has been paying himself £400k a year for god knows how long and eating on the house at every game he can from thursday to sunday.

Re: Fat nige : Sat Jun 03, 2017 3:55 pm  

I didn't say it was nailed on or fact, I said rumour...
I did however hear a rumour he was involved with us a couple of months ago.

Re: Fat nige : Sat Jun 03, 2017 4:58 pm  

I would like to see him step down and see Uncle Gary form Leeds take over. The game would be in better hands and would see better decisions taken.

Re: Fat nige : Sat Jun 03, 2017 8:49 pm  

bowlingboy wrote:

Mick has posted on Twitter big nige is stepping down at the end of the year.
Does this mean the rumour that he is coming on board is true?

Why can't we just get an owner with loads of brass and swerve controversy?

The Halifax, Wakey, Hudds fans will go into meltdown if we somehow swerve relegation and he comes on board..

Could what I told you a bit since be a little closer to coming true???

Re: Fat nige : Sun Jun 04, 2017 11:14 am  

Certainly knows how to run a club does big Nige *sniggers*.

Re: Fat nige : Sun Jun 04, 2017 12:30 pm  

Let's have a look at the evidence

Big Nige rumoured to be leaving RFL end of this season
Bulls firmly rooted to foot of table and looking doomed
Andrew Chalmers told me we will be back in super league in a couple of years

Are the jigsaw pieces starting to fit together???

Re: Fat nige : Sun Jun 04, 2017 4:05 pm  

roger daly wrote:

Let's have a look at the evidence

Big Nige rumoured to be leaving RFL end of this season
Bulls firmly rooted to foot of table and looking doomed
Andrew Chalmers told me we will be back in super league in a couple of years

Are the jigsaw pieces starting to fit together???

But Chalmers WOULD say that, wouldn't he? He isn't going to say "Fat Nige parachuted us in to maintain fixtures for one more year, and fleece the Bulls fans before that bolt to the back of the head at the end of the season" is he? And lets face it, the RFL have hardly covered themselves in glory in dealing with our past administrations and choosing owners either.

If they wanted us to be in SL why not limit the points deduction for this year? Or why not give full funding to us? Why not bend the rules to allow us to have emergency signings instead of playing with a skeleton team? Why orchestrate our ascension it in such a ridiculously underhand manner?

(If, by some miracle it is true however, it would show how corrupt the sport is however.)

Re: Fat nige : Sun Jun 04, 2017 4:35 pm  

roger daly wrote:

Let's have a look at the evidence

Big Nige rumoured to be leaving RFL end of this season
Bulls firmly rooted to foot of table and looking doomed
Andrew Chalmers told me we will be back in super league in a couple of years

Are the jigsaw pieces starting to fit together???

No. No, they're really not. The implication (I presume) is this weird 'behind the scenes thing' that we can't talk about but I call bollox, because to even dream of playing in SL, you need SL players. We in comparison will be part-time number-maker-uppers next year, and we haven't got ten bob let alone a coup of million to suddenly buy up a whole new SL squad, so any talk of SL now is to me truly delusional.

Blackpool apart, (and we still lost) anyone who's watched the last month of miserable 50 point floggings, and now the Dewsbury debacle, would laugh at the idea of us being in SL but in 2 years time we won't even have the best players that we currently do have to call on. We will have nothing.

Re: Fat nige : Sun Jun 04, 2017 5:03 pm  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

No. No, they're really not. The implication (I presume) is this weird 'behind the scenes thing' that we can't talk about but I call bollox, because to even dream of playing in SL, you need SL players. .

I suppose there is the whole 'relocate a franchise' option that keeps getting mooted. This notion that we will suddenly have Widnes Vikings or Salford Red Devils 'become' Bradford Bulls - in other words, we inherit their entire squad.

I don't think it will happen for one minute, in fact I don't want it to. The whole idea of us either being bumped up to SL or even miraculously being reprieved of relegation from the Champ sounds utterly corrupt and I don't want to be part of it.

Re: Fat nige : Sun Jun 04, 2017 5:19 pm  

Over the past few years and subsequent administrations, the advantages that the Bulls had over other clubs was the fantastic support and a very good youth system (incidentally mainly financed by supporters). Not the Bulls brand, the management, certainly not the team or our stadium. It now seems as though all our decent youth players have a season (or two if we're lucky) with us and then go to higher ranked teams with a less successful system. And now thanks to the ineptitude of the RFL and subsequent owners we are on the verge of losing that support, without which we don't have a club. I would stop watching RL if we went under as would a lot of Bulls fans I think, so that's more loss of support (about 4,000 fans or a Huddersfield home game) that the RL can not afford to lose. Thanks Nige and Ralph you will always be known in the future as great visionaries.