bulls / new ground : Thu Aug 02, 2012 7:28 pm  

i thought we were trying to get funding for the new ground and here we are helping the bulls secure their super league future .we should be securing our future wot a joke we are to british sport moving the goal posts when one of the big clubs fail

Re: bulls / new ground : Thu Aug 02, 2012 7:42 pm  

Absolutely ridiculous I agree, why don't we look after ourselves isntead of helping out a club that would never helped us out if we entered administration?

I actually feel very sorry for Wakefield (our enemies) I know because they had to drag themselves out of administration without any help whatsoever.

Re: bulls / new ground : Thu Aug 02, 2012 8:56 pm  

No facts have come out so we don't know a) what Cas have agreed to; and b) what the "financial" help consists of.

Re: bulls / new ground : Thu Aug 02, 2012 8:56 pm  

mallcmjlm wrote:

i thought we were trying to get funding for the new ground and here we are helping the bulls secure their super league future .we should be securing our future wot a joke we are to british sport moving the goal posts when one of the big clubs fail

Gary Hetherington :

"The Super League clubs do recognise the risk, they are responsible for any liabilities going forward. Butthe future and the prosperity of the Bradford Bulls is much more important than any short-term financial loss that the clubs may suffer"

Re: bulls / new ground : Thu Aug 02, 2012 9:00 pm  

Easy for him to say. He owns a club with significant revenues that far dwarf our own. Leeds can afford to throw money at the Bulls to some extent. We have to make ends meet. If we are so much as putting a penny into this enterprise I'll be digusted.

As fans and as the game's main stakeholders, I do feel that we should have had a right to be consulted in such decisions.

Re: bulls / new ground : Thu Aug 02, 2012 9:06 pm  

Fully wrote:

Easy for him to say. He owns a club with significant revenues that far dwarf our own. Leeds can afford to throw money at the Bulls to some extent. We have to make ends meet. If we are so much as putting a penny into this enterprise I'll be digusted.

As fans and as the game's main stakeholders, I do feel that we should have had a right to be consulted in such decisions.

Of course we are funding it. SLE is a company who have 15 equal shareholders 14 sl clubs plus the RFL. AFAIK Profits are split equaly between the shareholders. If SLE is funding this from reserves/profits, then we are part funding this farce.

Re: bulls / new ground : Thu Aug 02, 2012 11:09 pm  

I wonder what it would take for a club to step out of line with the RFL's little schemes?
Half the clubs are up the RFL's backside while the other half are scared to death of losing their licence on a technicality derived from a secretive and unreliable process.

Re: bulls / new ground : Fri Aug 03, 2012 10:16 am  

Players will be free agents come Tuesday thus reducing the wage bill drastically is what I have heard

Re: bulls / new ground : Fri Aug 03, 2012 10:49 am  

Just been announced that debt is 1.5 million for the Bulls and all players will become free-agents as soon as the SL(E) offer of ownership is accepted. This could be as early as next week.

Lets go shopping.

Re: bulls / new ground : Fri Aug 03, 2012 11:52 am  

i've been told that the only real costs are the players wages. the players have been told they can negotiate with other clubs for next season and that the bulls have until november 30th to find a buyer.
it looks like a deal to simply get them to october without folding and then to drop them a division or two so they can start again.
don't forget should the league drop to 13 or even 12 clubs the remaining clubs will recieve a bigger slice of the sky money pie.