The Bradford saga : Thu Aug 02, 2012 2:16 pm  

Disgusts me. What a joke this game is turning out to be. We've been in their position with many other clubs and know how hard it was. We were one of the lucky few who found a bidder.

We were turned down for licensing last time around because our finances the year before where bad. Now here's a team financed by superleague clubs who this year where planning on operating at a million pound loss.

I hate seeing teams fold and fade away but you cannot have rules for some clubs and exceptions for a couple more. You abide by the rules and if you don't you deserve the punishment every other club got handed to them and if that means Bradford have to restart in the championship, then so be it.

I feel for Leigh and Halifax fans. I would just give up I were them

Re: The Bradford saga : Thu Aug 02, 2012 4:41 pm  

Agree abit unfair on Fax and Leigh etc and we never got bailed out.Even Glasgow Rangers in football got hammered.

Re: The Bradford saga : Thu Aug 02, 2012 9:23 pm  

To be honest the more I think of it the more it annoys me. Every club that goes into meltdown gets treated differently and some are not just offered help it's to the detriment of the other clubs. Yet others are allowed to quietly drift into oblivion. It was the major point used to held us back from entering super league and yet other clubs in super league with all the benefits it has are allowed to stay.

Bradford outbid others including us for players when they were clearly struggling for cash. They offered season tickets and matchday tickets for extremely low prices, in an all or nothing risky strategy. They've put out consistently poorer and poorer teams and paid over the odds for the privilege. They are still playing in one of the ugliest stadiums in rugby league when others have been urged to move from theirs. And now it all ends as was expected and they're bailed out like no team has before.

Re: The Bradford saga : Fri Aug 03, 2012 10:00 am  

Still shocked! This is so, so wrong!

I could understand then offering to cover wages until seasons end but buying them??? WTF! It's a loss running business now on the SL books for a start.

Sends out such an awful message for the game too especially when you look at how strong the SPL have just been with a far bigger and more important club to their top flight.

Re: The Bradford saga : Fri Aug 03, 2012 10:55 am  

J20 wrote:

Still shocked! This is so, so wrong!

I could understand then offering to cover wages until seasons end but buying them??? WTF! It's a loss running business now on the SL books for a start.

Sends out such an awful message for the game too especially when you look at how strong the SPL have just been with a far bigger and more important club to their top flight.

All that record profit the RFL was boasting about down the toilet to save the Bulls. And where were they when we needed them?

Re: The Bradford saga : Fri Aug 03, 2012 11:03 am  

I really want Bradford to survive, but not like this! It does highlight the shambollic way RL is run and how its one rule (bended or broken) for the Bulls and another for the rest of us.

Bad decision and an embaressment to the game in my humble opinion.

Re: The Bradford saga : Fri Aug 03, 2012 11:39 am  

To be too quick to blame the RFL the sl clubs voted for this.

Re: The Bradford saga : Fri Aug 03, 2012 12:21 pm  

WVRLCMatt wrote:

To be too quick to blame the RFL the sl clubs voted for this.

I am annoyed Widnes went along with it.

But let's be honest we all know how these votes work! You basically get told what to do! Plus Leeds won't have wanted to lose one of their biggest crowds...

Re: The Bradford saga : Fri Aug 03, 2012 2:44 pm  

I don't think that they were told what to do, what leverage do the RFL have over the clubs it's not like they could kick them out for not voting the right way as that would show blatant corruption. They can't block funding as that would be a detriment to the product and the league. Nigel Woods can't threaten to leave the sport as that would be a good thing.

Most club voted that way because they wanted the away crowds that Bradford bring and the slight possibility of a reduction in sky money.

It's not right that Bradford are being bailed out when other clubs were left to rot but to blame the RFL when the Super League Clubs including our own have as much a hand in this is rubbish.

Re: The Bradford saga : Fri Aug 03, 2012 2:56 pm  

If im being honest I couldn't give a rats booty, Widnes is all I care about.