Re: Did Bradford hit the 500k? : Sun Apr 08, 2012 7:12 am  

JB Down Under wrote:

Bradford are important as they have shown they can be a big club, the supporter base is there and the game can't afford to lose major cities and replace with minor ones from a public/media/corporate perspective.

Will be very sad if we lose Bradford from SL and I can't see the RFL allowing it (if they have any sense)

What a load of crap. No-one should have a permanent seat in SL. Other clubs who've hit the financial wall in RL have had to cut their cloth and deal with the consequences. I thought SL was supposed the be the cream of the crop? Going a bit sour isn't it?

Re: Did Bradford hit the 500k? : Sun Apr 08, 2012 7:24 am  

I said at the time of the announcement that its a load of poop. Layest they could have the money was friday any later they would be gone. Suddenly they are able to extend it to monday?? Makes you wonder if they were just after the paniking fans money? And where will the other £500k that is needed by the end of the month gonna come from?

Re: Did Bradford hit the 500k? : Sun Apr 08, 2012 8:16 am  

littlerich wrote:

What a load of crap. No-one should have a permanent seat in SL. Other clubs who've hit the financial wall in RL have had to cut their cloth and deal with the consequences. I thought SL was supposed the be the cream of the crop? Going a bit sour isn't it?

Going very sour. It's looking increasingly like you need a wealthy owner to have a seat at the top table. Your point is right, of course. It's up to Bradford to sort its own problems out, and if we can well fine. If we do not, then there can be no complaints if we lose our seat. We have no God-given right to it.

You would just hope that some other club with a rich owner ready willing and able to bankroll his club for the long term would be in a position to take the seat.

Re: Did Bradford hit the 500k? : Sun Apr 08, 2012 9:44 am  

so, lets say Bradford have counted out £500,000 by tomorrow morning, they give this to the taxman, and that bill is cleared.

They then need another half mill by when? end of April?

who do they owe this 2nd sum to? surley players wages will be affected.

The way i see it (if we are all been told the truth by the bradford bod) Bradford are likely to pay off the taxman, but then have a whole new problem of finding money to 'run the club' in general, if they dont get a big money investor then what are the options?

Administration?
if this happens the club will have to sell all their prize assets (players), and if you can barely put a team together now, where will this leave your playing squad? unable to compete?

or

folding? (not for a second do i think this will happen)

it still sounds as if you are in a very serious situation, and i hope the people that attended Odsal on friday and thought they might have secured the Bulls' future, dont when maybe asked for more money say

"we've done our bit already, on your own now Hood!"

Adeybull, you seem in the know?

Re: Did Bradford hit the 500k? : Sun Apr 08, 2012 10:24 am  

Having only started to follow the game in my mid forties five years ago and been a London season ticket holder for the last four I'm not imbued with the history of the sport like others but also have a more detached view of Bradford's struggle for survival. I certainly don't wish the club or it's supporters any ill will but should they go bust and have to reform would the game be worse off? As a London supporter I regularly read and I am told that there shouldn't be a team in London due to low crowds etc. and that there are heartlands teams (e.g. Halifax / Featherstone) more deserving of a franchise that would bring home gates of 10,000 and away support of 1,000+ and make the sport stronger. If Bradford go then surely one of these clubs that are in position to replace London can replace Bradford next year. In two years time London will lose their franchise (unless there is a miraculous turnaround) and a reformed, regrouped Bradford given its significant and passionate following will be in a strong position to bid for a franchise. Am I being over simplistic?

Re: Did Bradford hit the 500k? : Sun Apr 08, 2012 10:39 am  

WhittonQuin wrote:

Having only started to follow the game in my mid forties five years ago and been a London season ticket holder for the last four I'm not imbued with the history of the sport like others but also have a more detached view of Bradford's struggle for survival. I certainly don't wish the club or it's supporters any ill will but should they go bust and have to reform would the game be worse off? As a London supporter I regularly read and I am told that there shouldn't be a team in London due to low crowds etc. and that there are heartlands teams (e.g. Halifax / Featherstone) more deserving of a franchise that would bring home gates of 10,000 and away support of 1,000+ and make the sport stronger. If Bradford go then surely one of these clubs that are in position to replace London can replace Bradford next year. In two years time London will lose their franchise (unless there is a miraculous turnaround) and a reformed, regrouped Bradford given its significant and passionate following will be in a strong position to bid for a franchise. Am I being over simplistic?

It certainly seems more sensible than the hard working public of Bradford forking out a million quid to keep a failed owner in charge of their club.

Re: Did Bradford hit the 500k? : Sun Apr 08, 2012 1:50 pm  

Reality is we don't have a big city club waiting in the wings. Our game suffers as is with a massive perception problem about it being a minority sport, take out the cities and replace with small towns and it becomes a shed load harder to get corporate support, media deals etc etc.

Re: Did Bradford hit the 500k? : Sun Apr 08, 2012 2:07 pm  

JB Down Under wrote:

Reality is we don't have a big city club waiting in the wings. Our game suffers as is with a massive perception problem about it being a minority sport, take out the cities and replace with small towns and it becomes a shed load harder to get corporate support, media deals etc etc.

A bit like a rowing race between two universities? Now that would be a minority sport. There's no way something like that would get 3 hours prime time on BBC or massive corporate support.

Re: Did Bradford hit the 500k? : Sun Apr 08, 2012 2:38 pm  

Barnacle Bill wrote:

A bit like a rowing race between two universities? Now that would be a minority sport. There's no way something like that would get 3 hours prime time on BBC or massive corporate support.

Nothing to do with a large number of Ex students from these two institutions running the BBC and half the Corporations in the country is it.

Re: Did Bradford hit the 500k? : Sun Apr 08, 2012 6:03 pm  

chubbs1981 wrote:

Nothing to do with a large number of Ex students from these two institutions running the BBC and half the Corporations in the country is it.

Quite, and yet some would have you believe the old boy network doesn't exist.