bulls2487 wrote:
All players and staff were paid today suppose its another positive, should see a reduced wage bill next month due to the highest earners off the wage bill also.
A RFL whistleblower has informed us that it was not our illustrious new shareholders. Don't ask for our source as we will not reveal their name. Nevertheless, it goes without saying that the news as peddled out by the club's PR puppets re wages being paid would not appear to be as overwhelmingly postive as Wood & Sawyer would want you to believe. It all appears to be little more than the usual Bulls' smoke and mirrors; as it has sadly been for the past 8 years.
It would be helpful if a RL journalist would ask Nigel Wood (or Sawyer) who has in fact paid the Bulls' staff and player wages over each of the past 4-5 months; a sum of up to £70K per month - a monthly outlay which is reducing due to the recent scandalous firesale of valued and much loved players.
We still hope that Wood and Sawyer and their ever changing gaggle of shareholders will be successful in stabilising our once great club, but we doubt they will. Sawyer's attempts at raising the club's public profile have to to date been hopeless.
Given the ongoing farce that is Bradford Bulls 2017 Limited (BB17), along with the disturbing news re some £150K - £200K of allegedly misappropriated funds that will be coming out within the next month or so, may we again recommend to our fellow fans
NOT to buy a season ticket for 2020 until you can be 100% sure that our club will still be in existence at the commencement of the actual Championship season in February.
As for the shareholders, confusion reigns re the role at the club being played by Kathryn Harrison and Chris Brereton; are you in, or out? Re the former what right does she have to be calling nestegg creditors looking to cut a murky deal if Kath may not not even be a BB17 shareholder, or an appointed adviser? Why can't Nigel or Mark do their own (allegedly) dirty work?
We now return to the RFL Board's recent review of a detailed chronology of decisions relating to both the purchase of Odsal, and the three administrations at our club since 2011.
May we suggest that a truly independent and detailed inquiry be carried out; not (as was the case last week) a superficial, partial, internal RFL review which in all likelihood will have taken a few hours (if that!) to complete.
May we also suggest that the RFL appoint a firm of forensic accountants to investigate/audit the outgoing payments by the RFL in regard to the Bradford Bulls over the past 6 months or so in order to establish what payments have in fact been made to the club both prior to and post the recent apparent takeover. Such outgoings should include payments to current and former shareholders of Bradford Bulls 2017 Limited (including Nigel Wood) and any employees and self employed persons directly affiliated with the club. In order to be transparent we ask that the results of the above audit be disclosed to the press and the public in full, and without any form of redaction.
Our trip to Iceland is now almost over, and the main core of nesteggers are landing back in Blighty tomorrow.
