Re: Players meeting with new owner today : Thu Jan 05, 2017 11:38 pm  

bowlingboy wrote:

Wonder if Lamb is involved?
If not he's put a lot of time and effort in this week has the lad...
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It would also be nice to have a RL man running the show?

Lamb is not involved. Derek Richardson and David Thorne are the new owners. As I understand this Marc Green has been very smart. Avoiding paying redundancy money and getting rid of top earners in players.

Re: Players meeting with new owner today : Thu Jan 05, 2017 11:42 pm  

Dannyboywt wrote:

What I don't get is if this is all in place and I hope for you it is, why have RFL today published the criteria to offer? If they did that and yet were in negotiation with someone to take you now and were talking to people while saying the deadline for the 10 interested parties was Monday. This would be viewed as unfair advantage and I don't think you can do that.

It all seems at odds.

They published a criteria only one could meet.

Re: Phoenix from the flames? : Thu Jan 05, 2017 11:53 pm  

redeverready wrote:

The Rfl can help speed up this process bringing it down to weeks.

Oh no please not more favouritism from the RFL

Re: Phoenix from the flames? : Fri Jan 06, 2017 12:01 am  

RAB90 wrote:

Agree with the vast majority on here that a one year sit out and start at the bottom would be the most sustainable way forward for (semi) pro RL in Bradford. But at the moment the people making the decisions are the RFL and as I see it they have two main objectives;

1) fulfill fixtures
2) get out of their odsall lease as it's now a liability with no sub tenant
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Can we put this as a sticky to save the trolls having to read all the previous pages before they start ranting that......... we want our cake and eat it......favouritism.........Bulls fans should be grateful......why are you complaining....blah, blah, blah, blah blah

Re: Players meeting with new owner today : Fri Jan 06, 2017 12:04 am  

vbfg wrote:

I agree completely. And yet the timing is so goddamn weird. It feels very much like this, but it feels very much like Green panicked at the last minute after realising playing hardball wasn't working out for him. We are still in admin and so he does still have a degree of control over proceedings.

I've posted the same thing! Green and petit panicked and it looks like to me if all this is true they and not the new owner have caved in knowing they will get nothing if liquidation happens

Re: Players meeting with new owner today : Fri Jan 06, 2017 12:08 am  

KCNBABT wrote:

Lamb is not involved. Derek Richardson and David Thorne are the new owners. As I understand this Marc Green has been very smart. Avoiding paying redundancy money and getting rid of top earners in players.

But if someone like Richardson was coming in knowingly we could have kept some especially welham and ob. Hope this new owner has spoke to others not announced elsewhere yet to see it they would be interested in stating

Re: Players meeting with new owner today : Fri Jan 06, 2017 12:10 am  

So if all this is right can wasps lend us Kyle eastomnd and kurtley Beale hahaha

Re: Players meeting with new owner today : Fri Jan 06, 2017 12:15 am  

KCNBABT wrote:

Lamb is not involved. Derek Richardson and David Thorne are the new owners. As I understand this Marc Green has been very smart. Avoiding paying redundancy money and getting rid of top earners in players.

Hmm. Hadn't thought of it like that. However I'm not sure what MG gains? If the club is sold then no need to pay redundancy. And if not there is no money in the pot anyway. Or would those owed redundancy pay come ahead of MG in the queue for getting some of the proceeds of a sale? All interesting though.

And thank Christ it's not Lamb!

Re: Players meeting with new owner today : Fri Jan 06, 2017 12:19 am  

ridlerbull wrote:

Hmm. Hadn't thought of it like that. However I'm not sure what MG gains? If the club is sold then no need to pay redundancy. And if not there is no money in the pot anyway. Or would those owed redundancy pay come ahead of MG in the queue for getting some of the proceeds of a sale? All interesting though.

And thank Christ it's not Lamb!

Totally agree for me I hope this is the real deal because if it is we will never ever see lamb getting publicity from our admins again

Re: Players meeting with new owner today : Fri Jan 06, 2017 12:24 am  

If we do get a buyer for 2017 these are my thoughts, half of the players have already signed for other teams, (i can't blame them ) so no team! 12 points min deduction or 18 at least as we play Hull 3 times. End the season bottom of the league and get relegated, fan base drops to 17 die hards. Sounds about right!!!