Re: Peter Hood says Bulls on brink of going bust. : Wed Apr 04, 2012 8:46 am  

Adeybull wrote:

Incidentally, we were not exactly a compliant bunch last night. Some of the exchanges were robust, an I can tell you that I told Peter on at least one occasion, regarding a specific, that he was just plain wrong. And pretty assertively, because he was. And yes we agreed then that how he had expressed it WAS wrong. The underlying message was right; the delivery was not.

THAT I think is at the core of a lot of the recent mistrust of the BOD. How it has been delivered, not the underlying message.

Caisley had the same problem, and in spades, so its nothing new.

Thankyou for the informative posts once again.

Question: we somehow raise the £500,000 thus leaving us a window of opportunity of precisely Four to Six weeks to seek investment.

What happens if after week Four or Six no investment is forthcoming, does Administration still register on the horizon Adey??

We simply cannot allow this club with all it's fantastic heritage to die because of stubborn supporters holding grudges against the current board of directors.

Together We Are Stronger - Bradford Bulls

Re: Peter Hood says Bulls on brink of going bust. : Wed Apr 04, 2012 8:48 am  

If you can't do it for Peter please please do it for Trevor.

Re: Peter Hood says Bulls on brink of going bust. : Wed Apr 04, 2012 8:50 am  

Good effort boys and girls.

Re: Peter Hood says Bulls on brink of going bust. : Wed Apr 04, 2012 8:58 am  

Some pretty passionate and sensible talk today but the worry is not enough appear to think they can help or are prepared to help

I have said it once and will say again, we need to pledge now and give us 4-6 weeks to continue fundraising etc. This time period is at least twice as long as the current time frame and look at what we have acheived, lets face it from a standing start. 2 weeks ago the only problem we thought we had was a bad display against Salford

We need help now, lets hope the snow clears and doesnt put people off the auction. Can you bid over the phone on the night or are we getting too technical!!!

We must survive and ask questions later

I cant tell my 4 small kids we cant go to rugby and sit in the 'red seats' again

Re: Peter Hood says Bulls on brink of going bust. : Wed Apr 04, 2012 9:01 am  

I just hope that the so called supporters who refuse to pledge will be able to live with themselves should the worst happen.

Re: Peter Hood says Bulls on brink of going bust. : Wed Apr 04, 2012 9:03 am  

MicktheGled wrote:

Thankyou for the informative posts once again.

Question: we somehow raise the £500,000 thus leaving us a window of opportunity of precisely Four to Six weeks to seek investment.

What happens if after week Four or Six no investment is forthcoming, does Administration still register on the horizon Adey??

We simply cannot allow this club with all it's fantastic heritage to die because of stubborn supporters holding grudges against the current board of directors.

Together We Are Stronger - Bradford Bulls

If...WHEN we get the £0.5m (and please, let it exceed that) the BOD stated categorically that they will not be going back to the fans for more.

They urged though that fundraising continues, since £0.5m is the minimum that will serve for this season. Anything above that gives the BOD more power to retain the young talent, in the face of the elastic salary caps elsewhere, and provide the best possible squad, and to give the most support to the squad.

They indicated that there is plenty in progress to improve the income and funding streams further in future.

Re: Peter Hood says Bulls on brink of going bust. : Wed Apr 04, 2012 9:10 am  

Adeybull wrote:

Because the interested parties don't necessarily have to be equity investors. What they DO have to be is convinced that the club is worth committing funds to. Trust me!

So there ARE people interested then?

[Bullseye]

Re: Peter Hood says Bulls on brink of going bust. : Wed Apr 04, 2012 9:11 am  

Adeybull wrote:

They indicated that there is plenty in progress to improve the income and funding streams further in future.

Adey, can you give us any idea what that might mean? Quite a few people would like to believe there is a plan to get us out of this mess but the club haven't given any info other than "there is a business plan going forward".

Re: Peter Hood says Bulls on brink of going bust. : Wed Apr 04, 2012 9:12 am  

Adeybull wrote:

If...WHEN we get the £0.5m (and please, let it exceed that) the BOD stated categorically that they will not be going back to the fans for more.

They urged though that fundraising continues, since £0.5m is the minimum that will serve. Anything above that gives the BOD more power to retain the young talent, in the face of the elastic salary caps elsewhere, and provide the best possible squad, and to give the most support to the squad.

They indicated that there is plenty in progress to improve the income and funding streams further in future.

As others have stated I think we all could live with move to sell John Bateman to the chequebook predators IF it ment the survival of the club.

Re: Peter Hood says Bulls on brink of going bust. : Wed Apr 04, 2012 9:15 am  

Hopefully it wont come to selling our youth players, survival of the club comes first, but if we get through this, we need to be building our team around Bateman and Whitehead.