Re: Players meeting with new owner today : Thu Jan 05, 2017 12:34 pm  

el red wrote:

Frank has been incredibly quiet lately, maybe because he's spending so much time on TV and radio talking about his 18 years at the club .

The club need a management team with incredible integrity to guide them through this mess and the coming season. Make no mistake this season is all about infrastructure and rebuilding trust. The current staff at the club cannot possibly hope to do this as they are complicit in the current state of affairs.

All the players know he talks do dah and leaks information to his merry female following. In this situation he seems to be coordinating this meeting with the mystery buyer. If liquidated we have no club and no staff so stu Duffy is obviously trying to get a place on board the new club.

Re: Players meeting with new owner today : Thu Jan 05, 2017 12:41 pm  

wonder if leons original tweet was badly worded and it was meant to say 'potential' new owner. Would make sense for any serious bidders to talk to players to try and head off any further departures.

Re: Players meeting with new owner today : Thu Jan 05, 2017 12:48 pm  

Why would someone take them out of admin costing near 2 million when they can pick up for free, 12 point deduction will stand either way won't it?

Re: Players meeting with new owner today : Thu Jan 05, 2017 12:49 pm  

mat wrote:

wonder if leons original tweet was badly worded and it was meant to say 'potential' new owner. Would make sense fo7r any serious bidders to talk to players to try and head off any further departures.

Leon's message says any player not signed with a club yet has to come to a meeting at Odsal this afternoon at 4pm where the new owner will be there to talk to you.

Re: Players meeting with new owner today : Thu Jan 05, 2017 12:53 pm  

Well roll on 4pm maybe they found lord Lucan riding shergar at the back of the coral stand bid in hand

Re: Players meeting with new owner today : Thu Jan 05, 2017 12:55 pm  

Gutted that Moss has gone to Leeds. Pleased for him on a personal level, but man that is going to be gut wrenching watching him tear it up for the bloody Rhinos. Which he will do, because he's all class. One of the best fullbacks in the British game imo, he's that good.

Re: Phoenix from the flames? : Thu Jan 05, 2017 12:55 pm  

Bullseye wrote:

Not thought of that Greg!

Lucky Fax!

Just a crap situation for everyone involved apart from teams picking off the bones. Cant really blame them either. This could so easily have been us if our board did not take action which in itself seemed to annoy our fans but strangely I know which situation I would prefer to be in at the moment and Im sure Bradford fans feel the same. The fans always get the cak end of the stick though.

Re: Players meeting with new owner today : Thu Jan 05, 2017 12:56 pm  

If the administrator was still trying to sell, why did the RFL make the statement they did, indeed why did the administrator make the statement he did. I am putting my money on someone spreading misinformation. If there was a new owner in place, surely he would have headed off the player moves from the last 24 hours. Nope, not buying it.

Re: Players meeting with new owner today : Thu Jan 05, 2017 1:00 pm  

An e-mail i have seen from Petit to season ticked holders states that whist he has proposed the club is liquidated, he hasn't yet appointed a liquidator.

From the original post, and the cloak and dagger approach, i'm thinking this meeting is more of a come meet the person that the RFL have already given the green light to form a new Club.

As a result, the (potential) new owner(s) are trying the hardest to make sure they can keep some sort of a team for the following season.

I highly doubt a buyer will make a late approach for the club from the administrator, as the RFL has already set the scene that the punishment for writing everything off will be exactly the same.

Fingers and toes crossed!

Re: Phoenix from the flames? : Thu Jan 05, 2017 1:03 pm  

vbfg wrote:

Just me. I spent a part of yesterday sharing my plan for the brick by brick removal of Featherstone so it could be rebuilt as a museum in a place people might want to visit.

I though that already existed at Beamish