Pleased for Keyes to get a shot at SL, he's got the talent if Hull KR give him a fair chance.

Sorry to see the players go but it was no secret that players would be going. Sort of hoped we night have held onto Minchella as he was obviously a Bulls fan and player. Can't begrudge them securing SL deals though especially in the mess we are in.

You can't make it up can you.
Perhaps we should change our nickname to Bradford Village Idiots.

Some mistake surely? I was assured by many blue socked fans on this board that Keyes was Hafilacks bound?

I can confirm the news is true

This ST is going to be a real hard sell:

1 - Soul ripped from the team? check
2 - The best young players hocked off? check
3 - Play out of city? check
4 - reassuring comments from 'temporary' owners about stability? check

Only waiting for the "Exploit fans loyalty for financial gain" bit and its a full house.

Dunno about you guys, but I'm pretty sick of this. It isn't fun. It isn't why I like RL. It's genuinely depressing.

The Keyes and Minchella departures were inevitable I suppose but it's still completely devastating. Absolutely no idea who we sign now as replacements.

Sport shouldn't be this heartbreaking.

I know it's not good but in reality can we really afford sl quality players hopefully there is a clause to say they can be loaned back to Bradford if not playing first team. We have to rebuild but least we still have a club. The player most gutted about us Elliott but least he gets a chance to play sl

I had thought we needed 1 of Keyes or Milnes to stay in the halves. We sort of did I suppose as he's getting loaned back. But still.
That's the best of that academy year gone. What's the next year got? Maybe we can keep them? Shackleton gets picked for England squads I think. Vytas, Ebon Scurr, Gallagher will all have to step up I think.

Have to say I agree, when the current England team is made up of half Bradford academy products, the nrl semi final had 5 Bradford lads in it and yet for every player we produce and all the building we do, it all gets stripped away and sold off every time with hull kr and giants often the short term benefactors

Completely. Utterly. Gutted.

I need refunds on two season tickets.

Ah, putting together a handy shopping list for KR/Hudds for the year after next, when despite acting within our means we have another administration event and get to sell off all our young jewels again.

Leigh and Fev were arguably in worse positions than us this time last year. It's going to be a rough few weeks but I think we just have to sit tight and see what state we're in come season kick-off.

You and me both mate

Thanks for the 'frantically grasping at straws to make it not look as catastrophically bad as it is' post.

Reporting to have received £100k for that deal.

Really disappointing to lose Minchella, Storton, Milnes and Keyes. There were the foundations in which to build the club on. But I don't think we had any choice.

it's as i stated earlier decimated team and struggle to stay in the division just another year of crap for the loyal fans will it EVER end

Reporting to have received £100k for that deal... to pay off creditors...

It won't help the team in any way

20K per player. Bargain.

Heart/head/heart/head

Head - Well, if we believe what we've been told at the fans forum & by the more reliable journos out there - we haven't spent any of our increased central funding that we start to receive from next month, our expenditure on the stadium has gone, Chalmers has written off what he was owed (was that included or excluded in the 2 debt figures quoted I wonder - maybe that's why there are 2 figures?), there's a new sponsor on board and we've just received a decent 6 figure sum for 5 players. At this rate we may be debt free by Easter and can actively plan to attack the championship in 2021!

Heart. FFS. What a crock.

At least for a change the creditors are getting paid. That's a new one for this time of year. It's fairly standard for the Bulls to be shafted around this time, but at least other companies aren't getting stictched up too.

The person to blame in all this is the one who's racked up all the debts in the first place. My worry still remains that the rumours of Nigel Wood being involved from the start of Chalmers' regime are true (and I have no reason to doubt those considering they've been hanging around like bad smell for nearly 3 years), and that means nothing is really going to change and we'll be back here again in 2-3 years.

Academy player gone to KR. Who is it?

Who are we DR'ing?

When a club comes in with a bit of cash in exchange for a number of players we never really stood a chance. It looks a good opportunity for those players but I doubt they will get much of a look in for a side facing relegation next season so I’m not sure it’s best for them long term but time will tell.

Don't remember their fans being taken for idiots year after year after year..........

At least they can always DR to Dewsbury. Now who is their owner/chairman?