Weirdly, I'm going to be uncomfortable with anything other than liquidation. I just can't deal with going through this over and over again, and any hopes that I had for a new owner with any actual money are pretty much gone.
I feel the same to be honest
I'm not getting my hopes up that someone with real money to put into the club will buy us. And I just can't get excited about the whole 'so long as we have a club, I'll be happy' line that a lot of posters are saying. Going into another season in the Championship with no real hope of promotion, and just waiting for the next Administration, doesn't exactly thrill.
I have just about resigned myself to Liquidation, if the club did start again with another owner, who in their right mind would want to play for a club with our track record of Administration's
I've been doing my weekly shop at Morrison's for years but its never resulted in Sir Ken opening his wallet for us
I'm that pedantic, I haven't shopped at Morribob's since he screwed the Tesco deal for us. Especially after reading that he was looking forward to watching his 'beloved Bulls' in his retirement...but that's a whole other thread many moons ago...
I'm that pedantic, I haven't shopped at Morribob's since he screwed the Tesco deal for us. Especially after reading that he was looking forward to watching his 'beloved Bulls' in his retirement...but that's a whole other thread many moons ago...
I'm that pedantic, I haven't shopped at Morribob's since he screwed the Tesco deal for us. Especially after reading that he was looking forward to watching his 'beloved Bulls' in his retirement...but that's a whole other thread many moons ago...
To be fair, since we moved house to Leeds (sorry!) last year, we've shopped mostly at Sainsbury's - must admit it feels better to not be bolstering Ken's retirement fund
But the current club is itself a phoenix club - brought into existence in 1964
I'm too young (just) to remember that, but it doesn't alter the fact. So a 'new' Bradford club wouldn't be the first time.
Perhaps so, but all of us below the age of 52 (and most just above it) won't remember the previous entity anyway, so the club we've supported all our lives is the current one. The fact the current one is a phoenix club is irrelevant really, it's just like saying we have no emotional attachment to the pre-1964 Bradford Northern too.
I can understand both sides of the Phoenix club support debate tbh. I'm not sure how I'll feel until (if) it happens, but I can't see me feeling the same about a new club as I do about this one, even if the name and the stadium are the same.
I have just about resigned myself to Liquidation, if the club did start again with another owner, who in their right mind would want to play for a club with our track record of Administration's
Well indeed. If we were playing in Champ 1 with a skeleton team in front of a few hundred people at Horsfall, I could probably get into that. If we were to spend next season with a massive points deduction and a skeleton team playing at Odsal with all of the same problems, bad feeling, and another ten bob millionaire in charge, it'd just be too grim. I mean, don't get me wrong, I would probably still turn up but it'd be bloody awful.
I guess what I really want is closure and a club. And I really don't think that's very likely.
With regards to a Phoenix club, I think it was FA who made a sterling if wordy effort to distinguish between the club and the holding company. A few years of no RL in Bradford and I probably would give up. A sustainable semi-pro club playing in Bradford Met wearing red, amber, and black, but which is in no way commercially connected to the current incarnation would have my full support.
zapperbull wrote:
I have just about resigned myself to Liquidation, if the club did start again with another owner, who in their right mind would want to play for a club with our track record of Administration's
Well indeed. If we were playing in Champ 1 with a skeleton team in front of a few hundred people at Horsfall, I could probably get into that. If we were to spend next season with a massive points deduction and a skeleton team playing at Odsal with all of the same problems, bad feeling, and another ten bob millionaire in charge, it'd just be too grim. I mean, don't get me wrong, I would probably still turn up but it'd be bloody awful.
I guess what I really want is closure and a club. And I really don't think that's very likely.
With regards to a Phoenix club, I think it was FA who made a sterling if wordy effort to distinguish between the club and the holding company. A few years of no RL in Bradford and I probably would give up. A sustainable semi-pro club playing in Bradford Met wearing red, amber, and black, but which is in no way commercially connected to the current incarnation would have my full support.
