Quote ="Starbug"If by some miracle of insanity , the ' independant ' licencing committe awarded the ' vacant ' SL place to one of the Championship clubs , it will potentially cost the RFL several hundred thousand pounds , I cannot see a situation where the new owner at Bradford is going to pay back the RFL the money they have spent keeping the Bulls going till the end of this season out of income generated in the Championships
It really is a pointless exercise , they will publically praise us if we apply as long as we all keep our gobs shut afterwards , but as you well know , [size=150ask 1 difficult question and your bid,BOD and club will be ridiculed [/size
As long as the Championship Club Chairmen continue to accept this rubbish , then they dont deserve anything better'"
I think you are being hugely unfair, honest.
You are probably referring to things like this, from Halifax's recent SL application:
Quote The club business plan was inadequate, figures presented by the club as the budget and performance forecasts for the 2012-14 Licence period were speculative and the club did not provide sufficient information for KPMG to complete their assessment procedures.'"
The reason no such criticisms of incumbent clubs have been made is that they haven't submitted speculative plans, ever, as Peter Hood, former chair of Bradford appeared to confirm recently when he said:
Quote There is a cashflow model that shows that, if nothing happened to generate new monies, based on a full salary cap spend and other substantial football costs, then the result would be a loss of more than £1million.'"
But to be honest i hope your right starbug i hope one of us 3 do get in and to be honest i dont care which 1 of us it is because if 1 of us gets in it will change the whole no entry situation hopefully.But if 1 of us replace bradford im sure it will only be for 2 years as im sure bradford will be fast tracked to get back in at 1 of us 3s expense.
