Surely, when the RFL gave Bradford their license they knew about their financial difficulties and debt, so why wouldn't they demote them? The RFL are so biased its unreal!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why would they relegate them when:
A. They aren't in administration (yet)
B. There's nothing in the operational rules that dictates a team in administration cannot compete in Super League (anymore)

haha Willzay nice photo and Gronk the money books are part of the criteria and surely theirs did not meet the standards of even a championship one club?

There is other criteria which they passed though.

Don't know how they could pass the ground criteria its like staying at an open air gig, its horrendous, they have like 5 young players coming through

I'm sure even the RFL couldn't forecast issues with the bank....

Have to disagree fully.

Once the RFL secured Odsal, the bank had very little security for
their overdraft.

Much as I hate the banks, the financial acumen of those party to
the deal needs to be questioned.

Surprised that it took RBS so long.

But the deal for the ground happened what, 6 months after licences were actually dished out. Like I said, I'm pretty sure that 9/10 months ago, when licences were being looked at by the RFL board, the RFL would not have known down the line that financially Bradford were going to go belly up, require SL money to be fast-tracked with a view and then their stadium lease bought to cover the debt left.

It does beg the question how they got a Grade B licence. The RFL need to be transparent about how they come to decisions because at the moment, fans do not have any trust in them.

I don't think you could be further away from the truth if you lived on the moon (which is where it seems Red Hall has moved to) you don't go from being a viable business to needing £1m within 4 weeks to survive in the blink of an eye, Bradford’s 2010 accounts show a considerable loss which I'm sure was a repeat of previous couple of years performances and if financial trends are what you look at before approving a license then I would suggest that at best, they misinterpreted the data and at worst ignored it, Crusaders were advised to withdraw their application based on a poor financial business plan, stinks of double standards this

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Bradford get a large loan fron the RFL befoe franchises were announced?