Bradford Bulls

[The Red Baron]

I see they have gone into liquidation. Sad news considering what a force they were in Rugby League at one time.

[idler]

Bulls fans in Bradford are going mental.
The administrators turned down a popular welcome offer and accepted one that nobody wanted and didn't work out.
Every week that goes by the administrators still take their cut.

[The Red Baron]

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/jan/03/bradford-bulls-go-into-liquidation#img-1

[idler]

They will have to stay out of the league for a season before re-forming.
There was a lot of hope not long ago about re-developing Odsal and building a Hotel and leisure centre there. It's a shame as they really set the Super League on it's way.

[RedJ]

They've been told they can play in the Championship (second tier I take it) if they reform with a new company as owners, according to the news on the radio.

[idler]

They've been told they can play in the Championship (second tier I take it) if they reform with a new company as owners, according to the news on the radio.

They may have changed the rules then. Their fans were expecting to lose a season as the only way out.
When City were in administration all those years ago it was galling that the only people getting paid in full were the administrators. Local businesses were losing loads. Even St.John's ambulance were among the creditors.
I always thought after that episode was if the Rovers ever went down that route I'd try and pick a local creditor and pay him any donation. £100 or so might make a difference to him whereas spreading it out after the administrator's cut gives little to anybody.

[LongbridgeMGRover]

Bad news for all concerned.
But the Dons, Oldham and other RL clubs went down the toilet, but were reborn and have slimmed down viable business models.
There must be something fundamentally rotten about a 'big' well supported club in RLs heartland which goes into administration three times in five years and then gets liquidated.
It also seems unfair to allow a new Bradford club to go straight into the second tier, and to be given a 12 point punishment. Two wrongs don't make a right.

[BobG]

I agree longbridge - but RL isn't a national game - and it has ambitions to be one. Allowing one of the hotbeds of the sport to be without a team for even one season must be giving the RL people palpitations. I can see the point - but it's just another wrong to add to the pile. What do 3 wrongs make I wonder?

BobG

[idler]

Bad news for all concerned.
But the Dons, Oldham and other RL clubs went down the toilet, but were reborn and have slimmed down viable business models.
There must be something fundamentally rotten about a 'big' well supported club in RLs heartland which goes into administration three times in five years and then gets liquidated.
It also seems unfair to allow a new Bradford club to go straight into the second tier, and to be given a 12 point punishment. Two wrongs don't make a right.

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I worked in a pub in Bradford from late 79-82 and the last landlord there was on the board at Bradford Northern as it was then. He used to moan like hell that the Dons on their gates could make more off-field with their various tickets etc than Bradford could with five or six times on their gate.
The only downside was promising to run the pub while he went to Wembley for the RFL cup final. We ended up securing promotion that day and I couldn't be there to see it. Still gutted after all these years.

[ravenrover]

On Sky the ceo / owner of Rotherham Titans said they were looking at taking over Bradford an had been told they would play with a points deduction and a relegation presumably 1 division to championship.
http://www.runningrugby.com/home/SearchForm?s=1&Search=Richard+Lamb