Re: What is this about now. : Fri Oct 30, 2015 4:02 pm  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

Which company is actually the main club though? I know that one is just Green and his wife, the one with Calvert and the other directors is BRADFORD BULLS 2014 LIMITED

This one, Bradford Bulls Northern Limited, is the main one.

Re: What is this about now. : Fri Oct 30, 2015 5:07 pm  

Could be summat or nowt

We had this 2 years ago. The club had been in discussions with HMRC about a debt and agreed to pay it in 4 monthly payments, The initial debt was for just 22k. Then after Fev had made 2 payments on time, the HMRC decided to advertise the winding up order even though only 11k was owing. Fev Brought forward the final payments and paid the 11k in full.

Re: What is this about now. : Fri Oct 30, 2015 7:27 pm  

Does anyone need their car washed?

Re: What is this about now. : Sat Oct 31, 2015 7:22 am  

I wonder if that credit card cock up caused a fiscal hiatus that possibly triggered an unfortunate response by HMRC?

A ticket I bought in August has only just gone through, but to the Bulls not the RFL as happened with some

Re: What is this about now. : Sat Oct 31, 2015 8:20 am  

Pumpetypump wrote:

And rumours that green is looking to sell too? Jeez that million pound game was all or bust wasn't it.

I can't imagine anybody wanting to buy the club at the moment unless the RFL change the rules on club ownership.

Re: What is this about now. : Sat Oct 31, 2015 8:58 am  

Leeds Uniteds owner could have a bit of spare money if he sells to the fans group

[Bulliac]

Re: What is this about now. : Sat Oct 31, 2015 10:40 am  

Nah, he's ok where he is!

Re: What is this about now. : Sat Oct 31, 2015 11:13 am  

There are people who might be in the market for sports clubs, but if one is in financial strife, the trick is to end up buying it for a quid off a liquidator. Not sure what the penalties for an insolvency are in the Championship but under this format I should thing playing-wise not much - you could still make the Super 8s with a 6 point penalty. That's in general terms though. Turning to our own case, it is seriously to be hoped we aren't going down such a road again because if we did, I wouldn't see many ways back this time round.

If we have major problems - let's hope we don't - I wonder what Mandy is up to nowadays?

Re: What is this about now. : Sat Oct 31, 2015 2:41 pm  

Gateshead Thunder were relegated

Re: What is this about now. : Sat Oct 31, 2015 3:35 pm  

Is it possible that Jimmy was aware of this situation which possibly explains his reaction at the end of the £1m game. Did he know more than us how important it was that we won and got that extra £1m into the club? Did he actually speak the truth in frustration?

If the HMRC did make a mistake and a club lost possible sales and investment because of it couldn't the club sue them. If so, I would be very surprised if it is a mistake. Surely they would get their facts right and inform the business before it was advertised - thus possibly badly affecting the businesses income. My gut feeling is there is some truth in this somewhere - but hopefully just a small amount which triggered an automatic reaction from HMRC.

This doesn't feel right to me and I assume the club has struggled again at some point.

It makes it clear to me that we MUST go up at the end of this next season otherwise we could be stuck here and downsize to match - which could see us become a permanent championship club until the RFL devise a plan to get us up, but they will only do that if the club is stable. If we have yet another financial crisis that could make the RFL decide we need to stay in the championship for many years till we have proven over a 5-10 year spell that we are run properly again. If we did mess up again and I were the RFL I wouldn't go out of my way to get us up for quite a few years of stability. Green taking over was our chance to show that. Lets hope we haven't just taken two steps backwards again and scared the RFL off finding a way of getting us up again.