would have been hilarious if the Leeds fan who registered bradfordnorthern.co.uk had also beaten them to the punch and registered bradfordnorthern.com as well as any other permutation, only to sell it to the Bullbuilder lot for a quid....

So, one good thing to come out of this could be the return of the "Northern and boring, Northern are boring" chant to the terraces.

When I was a kid, I used to think their fans were shouting "Norman, Norman, Norman....etc". I couldn't understand why they were all chanting for our famous winger Norman Francis?

Now if they had been shouting "Errol, Errol, Errol...." on the other hand

Apparently the meeting was to announce noble as interim coach but he backed out.

They can just make up a new position for the same job when they have someone available. Team manager or something.

Well the RFL have given them a stay of execution and funded money to pay the players for a few more weeks.

You could have the captain as a player coach and they could train in a public gym.

Imagine if they had gotten through to the CC semis?

martyn sadler has tweeted 2 consortiums are interested in the bulls

Keith Senior as player/coach?

can someone just please put this bull out of its misery and shot it once and for all. Its cruel to animals you know!

so what happens to the league points if/when the inevitable happens?

i assume they'd be voided if bulls don't complete the season. but would rhinos get to keep the two points from magic weekend, as otherwise we'd be a game less than the rest come the final tally, wouldn't we?

could benefit us in the table compared to those above us atm...

[/hovering vulture mode

Some people have such short memories.

For free!!!!!

How much will the players fetch on ebay

www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyl ... -sack.html ''[i"We've had some players this morning feeling sick and really nervy. It's their future, their livelihood, and they've got bills to pay. [/i''

www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyl ... -sack.html ''[i"We've had some players this morning feeling sick and really nervy. It's their future, their livelihood, and they've got bills to pay. [/i''

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/18706139 Looks like some investors have finally made contact.

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/18706139 Looks like some investors have finally made contact.

I genuinely hope somebody can put a solid business plan together and get the Bulls up and running as a profitable (or near profitable) operation and keep the team and players going this year and onwards.

I see no joy in this present situation for anyone in the game.

Story from oz that potter is back and will be unpaid coach this weekend...cant believe that if true

The situation at Odsal really saddens me. We've always had great banter with the Bulls lot but to see ANY RL club go to the wall is not encouraging but a club with the status and history of Bradford... unbelievable.

I hope someone can pull a rabbit out of the hat at the eleventh hour but hope to Hell it aint got owt to do with that Chris Caisley. The guy is a tool and should be let nowhere near any Rugby club.

I'm sure many fans of other clubs have similar opinions of GH. If it needs to be Caisley let it be so, he has always been a fan of RL and whilst IMO he let the rivalry with Leeds and GH in particular get the better of him.

Caisley has always struck me as an egotistical knob who has more belief in his own abilities and self-image than business acumen (but then again he is a lawyer

). He has a vested interest in the survival of the Bulls from a financial point of view and is only trying to protect his investment.

GH has only ever had the best interests of Leeds at his heart.

As you said though, if it is Caisley, so be it - I'd just rather it wasn't.

Caisley is getting a ton of bad press and people are forgetting that he was at the helm when the Bulls were there strongest. he should get credit for that.

It's a good few years since he left and all he has been for the main time is a shareholder. He was not a decision make during the last four years when some disastrous and stupid financial decisions were made.

Yes, he signed Iestyn but, again, don't forget, Iestyn played in two Grand Finals for them and won one. Yes he fought the legal battle with us but, don't forget, it wasn't him that threw in the towel with that battle, it was Hood. We effectively "won" because of Hood's decision to capitulate but we will never know if we would have won had the Bulls continued to fight.

It wasn't Caisley that sold the leasehold to the RFl to clear a debt without realising it would create another liability for VAT and lead to the withdrawal of the overdraft facility. It wasn't Caisley who at the time of that stupid decision proclaimed it safeguarded the Bulls future. It wasn't caisley who a couple of months later asked his own fans to put £500,000 into an obviously insolvent company that was heading downhill on roller skates to an inevitable Administration.

As an outsider looking in I am not sure why Caisley is being painted as a villain. Of course, I could understand resentment that he jumped ship when he did but, you know what, I fully agreed with caisley's thoughts after the 2003 season. He put arguably the best Bradford team in history out and they had arguably their most successful season ever and the people of Bradford supported it in fewer numbers than before. Why should he remain at a club heading towards insolvency?

Support for a fellow legal eagle and attempt to blame others duly noted



On the whole you are right though.

Their return to Odsal season?

In 2003 Bradford were the best supported club in SL with an average home regular round attendance of 14,963 from a Bradford point of view that figure being second only to their 15,167 in the Championship winning 1997 season.

I think Caisley is copping flak for not riding to the rescue when there was still a club left to save, rather than picking the skin off the corpse.

Not saying it's right, but I can see that point of view.

At least we now know what a Grade B Super League franchise really smells like.

Toilet needs flushing.

But then Caisley's signing of Harris was also the catalyst for the Bulls losing Jamie Peacock and Leon Pryce.

His decision to move the Bulls from VP to Odsal lacked diligance and landed us in a stadium that is a financial millstone.

He may have criticised fans in the accounts in 2003/4 for not turning up in higher numbers but has to take responsibility for some of that as the club lost its way in its marketing and began to take people for granted.

In short his records has a fair few blots on it. Ideally I'd like any new owners to be unconnected with the old guard of Caisley/Hood/Uncle Tom Cobley. Having said that if the choice is Caisley or bust then I'll take the Eric Polland lookalike every time.