Re: Peter Hood says Bulls on brink of going bust. : Tue Mar 27, 2012 2:00 pm  

Good Luck from all at the Giants, I hope everything turns out ok for you guys.
Super League and Rugby League would not be the same without a team like Bradford.

Re: Peter Hood says Bulls on brink of going bust. : Tue Mar 27, 2012 2:01 pm  

Fielden and Burgess.

both sacrificed to pay debt and we are still where we are now.

fold, start afresh, with a club, not a company, a club, full of people who want to be in it, and are hungry for success! Yes results will be poor, but we will know why. If we are a community club, run by the fans for the fans, we can unite behind one goal.

if we can get 4000 fans buying a £200 season ticket each next season thats a budget of 800K without any sponsorship or sky money. use this to pay a new playing squad. It will be less than we pay now, and of a lower quality, but it will be within our limited means.

800k = 15k per week on players. I know players in Champ 2 that are on £50 a week!!!!

our future may not be in SL, but it will be ours!!!

we could build from a solid base. give our younsgsters a chance to play 1st team for us, not be kept out of a side by a high earning failure! if we drop out now, we'd lose the franchise and would probably miss out again in 2015, but by 2018 we could be viably be ready for SL again and be carrying no debt, with a clean slate and a board of supporters who are not out to be self glorifying.



or we can pledge to Hood and his cronies and be back where we are now in six months time, or a year, or next month.

Re: Peter Hood says Bulls on brink of going bust. : Tue Mar 27, 2012 2:02 pm  

In my opinion, the RFL should offer a 'Soft Loan' for the £1million on the condition that the current board relinquish power to the RFL, who could be themselves or appoint a consultancy company to put the house back in order (which will probably mean losing players) and find a new buyer to start again next year. Almost like administration but I think administrators would just asset strip without the regard the RFL would.

Re: Peter Hood says Bulls on brink of going bust. : Tue Mar 27, 2012 2:12 pm  

I wouldn't pledge if Leeds were in similar circumstances, but that's mainly because sport (as much as I enjoy it) isn't that much of a priority in my life. I might consider it if I could see it was part of a sustainable plan to keep the team viable, but I'm not convinced that option is being offered to Bradford fans at the moment.

SL needs a strong Bradford team (i.e. the Bulls pre-2008), not another team like Salford/Wakey/Cas that might cause the odd upset but are routinely uncompetitive with the top teams. Building up from the grassroots, much like what happened in 1996, might be a better solution to getting the better sort of team rather than trying to soldier on with the current management set-up.

I think some kind of sweeping change will be necessary to attract the kind of investment needed to take the Bulls back to the top. Hood and co. have done their best to attract a big money backer without success. Who knows, a truly revitalised Bulls brand may even convince the likes of Ken Morrison to get involved or buy-out the likes of Caisley who appears to be working against the current administration.

Re: Peter Hood says Bulls on brink of going bust. : Tue Mar 27, 2012 2:14 pm  

east hull FC fan wrote:

In my opinion, the RFL should offer a 'Soft Loan' for the £1million on the condition that the current board relinquish power to the RFL, who could be themselves or appoint a consultancy company to put the house back in order (which will probably mean losing players) and find a new buyer to start again next year. Almost like administration but I think administrators would just asset strip without the regard the RFL would.

Why would the RFL do that??? Like any other investor, they can wait for the club to go under, have it's debts written off and form a new phoenix company if they wish to own and runs the Bulls... which they don't.

Re: Peter Hood says Bulls on brink of going bust. : Tue Mar 27, 2012 2:18 pm  

From a fan who is only 22 and has only really seen the good times when the bulls were a Giant in Super league i've become to accept that the team needed rebuilding and that results were going to be poor after 2005 once we started letting our world class players go but now i just feel sick. its an absolute disgrace how the board and hood have handled this they need fired asap and i couldnt care less where they go aslong as its not involved with another rugby club ever again because people like this are just absolute poisen to the sports we love.

As a student i would pledge but not until i know whats happened and where its going to go

Re: Peter Hood says Bulls on brink of going bust. : Tue Mar 27, 2012 2:20 pm  

isaac1 wrote:

He was dealt a crap hand by CAisley!

That isnt entirely true, Caisley and Noble both left the club because Hood wanted to change things overnight and too fast, instead of over a period of time - And my sauce is HP lol - no actually got told this a while back from a former employee of our beloved bulls. But that is all in the past and the time is now.............

Re: Peter Hood says Bulls on brink of going bust. : Tue Mar 27, 2012 2:26 pm  

Inflatable_Armadillo wrote:

Why would the RFL do that??? Like any other investor, they can wait for the club to go under, have it's debts written off and form a new phoenix company if they wish to own and runs the Bulls... which they don't.

Because RL needs the Bradford Bulls to survive.

Re: Peter Hood says Bulls on brink of going bust. : Tue Mar 27, 2012 2:32 pm  

I'll raid my copper jar see if I can scrape something together to help out.

Re: Peter Hood says Bulls on brink of going bust. : Tue Mar 27, 2012 2:43 pm  

I bought a T &A at 9am and was shocked.I have supported Northern and Bulls since 1978, along with my childrenand now their children.We are all Season Ticket holders, some fixed for 5 years.To read the Chairman state that "the Bulls had not originally expected to pay back all of the monies owed to the RFL straight away" is beyond belief. Didnt they read the conditions to which they signed up. A pack of lies reeled out early in the year.I even congratulated him at the Shirt Presentation Evening - and now feel like an absolute mug for having done so.
Far too early for me to think straight enough about the future. How dare they do this to our Club and its Fans.