Re: bulls - dragging on.---- : Thu Jul 12, 2012 4:13 pm  

another culinary exchange.
My son goes out to India two or three times a year on business .
I always say whilst you were there did you go out for an English . For some strange reason he does not think that funny!!

Re: bulls - dragging on.---- : Thu Jul 12, 2012 5:24 pm  

Backwoodsman wrote:

another culinary exchange.
My son goes out to India two or three times a year on business .
I always say whilst you were there did you go out for an English . For some strange reason he does not think that funny!!

The Kumars at Number 42. Classic sketch. Fantastic even.

Re: bulls - dragging on.---- : Thu Jul 12, 2012 6:35 pm  

Don't think this takeover will come to anything personally. Worth looking at though if no one else is interested though but think the debt and everything else that comes with it is too big a risk for anyone to buy them out!

Re: bulls - dragging on.---- : Thu Jul 12, 2012 6:54 pm  

Gandy wrote:

Don't think this takeover will come to anything personally. Worth looking at though if no one else is interested though but think the debt and everything else that comes with it is too big a risk for anyone to buy them out!

Isn't all this historical debt going to get written off though, especially if they get liquidated and this ABC group buy them for hardly anything and start afresh?

I know it's all complexed stuff and whilst I want to see the Bulls survive, to my eyes at the moment it seems as if;

• they are getting rid of all their debts
•starting as a new company with their historical debt wiped out
•not losing any star players??
•will stay in SL
•Are going to try and make sure they get the lease back from the RFL otherwise they will pull out?

And the only 'punishment' from the RFL will be a 4-6 point deduction that in the grand scheme of things is pretty incidental. They'll probably still be able to make 8th even with a deduction

I know some/all of this might be a somewhat over simplistic view but without knowing all the ins and outs it how it comes across to me

Re: bulls - dragging on.---- : Thu Jul 12, 2012 8:31 pm  

Special One wrote:

The Kumars at Number 42. Classic sketch. Fantastic even.

Nope, it was from 'Goodness Gracious Me'.

Re: bulls - dragging on.---- : Thu Jul 12, 2012 10:37 pm  

cheekydiddles wrote:

Isn't all this historical debt going to get written off though, especially if they get liquidated and this ABC group buy them for hardly anything and start afresh?

I know it's all complexed stuff and whilst I want to see the Bulls survive, to my eyes at the moment it seems as if;

• they are getting rid of all their debts
•starting as a new company with their historical debt wiped out
•not losing any star players??
•will stay in SL
•Are going to try and make sure they get the lease back from the RFL otherwise they will pull out?

And the only 'punishment' from the RFL will be a 4-6 point deduction that in the grand scheme of things is pretty incidental. They'll probably still be able to make 8th even with a deduction

I know some/all of this might be a somewhat over simplistic view but without knowing all the ins and outs it how it comes across to me

It's not that simple though (to my knowledge) if they liquidate they'll have to set up a brand new company and be voted back in to super league. The players contracts will be null and void and most of the good ones will have found new clubs by the time the bulls can begind playing again. They wouldn't be able to complete the season, the new ''owners'' or start up people would have to pump funds in to start them up again, they'd have to put all the infastructure into place again, they'd have to assemble a brand new team, they wouldn't be able to start playing again until next season.

The idea that they could liquidate, be rid of the debt, click their fingers and continue is cloud cuckoo land, it's crazy.

Liquidation would be an absolute disaster for the club.

Re: bulls - dragging on.---- : Fri Jul 13, 2012 8:41 am  

dubairl wrote:

... the indian restaurants in the uk aren't even close to proper indian food (north or south india), ...

I'm being pedantic, I know, but there are many "genuine" Indian restaurants in the UK, especially in London.
Granted, the other 98% (my sweeping guess) aren't "genuine" at all.
But hey, if that's what people like, where's the problem?

Re: bulls - dragging on.---- : Fri Jul 13, 2012 11:20 am  

It all depends on what offer the creditors will accept to write the debts off. Liquidation will be seen as the last resort by all, seen as the club effectively don't have any tangible assets in that scenario.

Re: bulls - dragging on.---- : Fri Jul 13, 2012 11:34 am  

"...the club, its ground, and all the players will be sold to The Arthur Foggan Scrap Company ..."

Re: bulls - dragging on.---- : Fri Jul 13, 2012 11:50 am  

El Barbudo wrote:

I'm being pedantic, I know, but there are many "genuine" Indian restaurants in the UK, especially in London.
Granted, the other 98% (my sweeping guess) aren't "genuine" at all.
But hey, if that's what people like, where's the problem?

I know of a fairly authentically Bengali restaurant in Leeds, which granted only does the really authentic stuff on special nights set up for the purpose. It must be said that the differences from the normal fare aren't as vast as some people would have you believe.

Generally, eating Indian food in the UK is quite similar to eating Italian in New York. There's a cuisine which has formed by the influences of a country of origin (with lots of regional variations and traditions), and then both developed (food does that you know, in all cultures) in relative isolation from that country of origin within an ex-pat community, and also been influenced and altrered by the pre-existing culinary culture in the new country.

You could then call it "UK Indian" if you wanted to be a pedant, but to dismiss it as "inauthentic" or not "genuine" is over-simplistic.