I went all wobbly lipped telling her indoors we were going under. Luckily she called me a soft get and kicked me in the Wang.

Good man. Nice to have a laugh when the chips are down.



Anyway, I think it's time Gledhill put his spoon down. He's either a Leeds or Fax fan and doing his damnedest to damage Bradford.

Frank!

Are you still sticking by your earlier comments? Is your guy still the front runner? Is all this just smoke and mirrors??



So many questions!

Nah, he's just gullible and never learns his lesson.

Can't believe your computer is that old!

I have the shirt with that written on it but doesn't fit me any more

WTF is going on. I'm so confused

Booooooooo!

There's a few lessons to be learnt here. It's something I said quite often when I used to regular post here.



1) Stop talking about stuff that Mick is writing. Ignore Mick. Mick knows nothing. He literally just jumps on the back of anything he hears without substance. He's incredibly dangerous with the stuff he posts (as we've literally just seen) which is why you would expect nobody would declare sensitive material, as he can't be trusted with it and just wants to be the centre of attention.



2) There are only a handful of people who truly know what is going on. That is the administrator, and those close to the bidders. This is what NDA's are for.



3) Be patient. Don't believe everything you read, and don't believe everything you're told.



4) I suspect as a whole Frank may be one of those in the know.



Calm your cotton socks, the Administrator is probably giving a worst case scenario, but you have to trust the statement published that we have 2 serious bidders. The administrators risk their careers by lying, especially in a public forum.

5. Do not talk about fight club.

I'd say Administration is like fight club.. but you know, can't talk.

Easy solution to that.



Don't be a Gledhill fanboy. Leave twitter alone and switch off the media until Saturday!

Mick has his uses. It's just that all of those uses are to parties with agendas who wish something that might steer situations to their advantage to become known more widely, true or not. And neither Mick nor his audience has the wit to figure that out. (Not that I blame you, Mick. Your heart's in the right place mate.)



Shame there haven't been any local journalists for well over a decade now. But we are where we are.

I suspect the administrator and RFL are working hard in the background to finalise a good deal.

This is a perfect example of the worst side of internet forums and how they can cause trouble.

I said a few weeks ago that true businessmen say nothing till the deal is done. They don't discuss things on forums.

I still expect good news by Saturday. If we do get it then there are a few people who need to think carefully about what they say and how they say it. The TandA and Gledhill should be the first followed by many others.



Us older ones will have been told years ago never believe everything you are told till you seen for yourself.

It still stands today in this mad digital world.

I've not posted in years but read quite regularly.



The way that things seem to be working is:

- The administrator says that there are NDAs in place so he literally isn't allowed legally to give any detail. Although he hasn't managed expectations brilliantly, where he could he has given a narrative about how many bids, whether they have credible funds, changing deadlines, etc.

- This has created a vacuum into which people on sites like this have speculated wildly. Fair enough, we all like a bit of speculation.

- However this speculation then gets quoted on twitter or in gossip columns as 'people are speculating' or worse still, gets represented as fact by some people.

- As those on twitter and in gossip columns have a microscopic veneer of credibility they then get quoted as 'sources say' in articles, particularly the T&A.

- And finally people back in places like this quote the press as if the reporters are in the know. Any actual insight that a reporter may have is drowned out in the noise of the speculation.



It's very zeitgeisty all this though as online echo chambers are all the rage right now.



Cheer up everyone!! Personally I've not seen anything concrete yet to make me feel optimistic or pessimistic, just a very (presumably with the number of interests involved) complicated administration taking place behind closed doors.



(Would really like this 48 hours done and dusted though...

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There must be some underlying issue for the players to be told that today.

I'm no fanboy, I have only ever copied what he has tweeted.



It's still confusing, with the players stopping training as they have been told liquidation maybe on Friday but then that statement from the administrators.



There has to be some underlying issue somewhere. Or people are just lying.

To para phrase the Administrator "there are loads of bargains to be had in the club shop and online"



Who would want to buy anything from a club that may not exist in a couple of days? Like many others I am keeping my money in my pocket, but if a potential buyer is reading this, I will be up to get my season ticket and will buy plenty from the shop once this is all over.....if we still have a club that is.

Was wondering the same thing. All that just to get fans to inject some cash into the business. I suppose that is possibly the only thing to stop liquidation. Yes everyone knows they have paid the staff, but that was 2 weeks ago. Due again in 2 weeks.

All depends who owns the stock !

But do we know they were told that? The only source for that info is the same sources (3 rugby league internet journalists) who said we were being liquidated.



So if the liquidation bit is not true, why do you assume this bit is?

Too many tweets makes a t.wat (as someone once said).

Well they stopped training. I no that for sure.

How do you know that for sure?

I have talked to a player.

Well not from what I'm led to believe they didn't.