Listen... just take mine and Clans advice. The Wakefield fans demanded the money be held in ESCROW, ask them to do this - get them to publish the signed legal ESCROW agreement from their solicitors detailing exactly what the target figure is and when this needs to be reached by for them to access the money.

Then the club can publish the ESCROW account details and get people sending in REAL money as opposed to pledging money!

That all said, as Clan and many other Wakey supporters are saying, don't waste your money! Once the emotions have settled, you will come to realise, like they did, that it is not worth saving the existing management and while administration is very scary and brings the unknown, it probably is the best long term hope for the club!

You are not being offered a good deal by the club though, they expect you to just pay to cover up how badly run the club has been. You need a change all together at the top. We have landed on our feet with Ian Lenegan buying us and takin us away from Whelan and Lindsay i hope you get someone just as good.

I would like a PLEDGE (is that how you do it?) from the BoD - to match pound for pound the money raised by supporters.

Awful news for Bradford, the very best of luck in getting things sorted out.

If they had that sort of money they wouldn't be begging the fans.

like someone else said on another thread the council has wasted 24 million on that puddle in the park can they not help out? wont hold my breath

That new 'stand' down the far end must of cost a fortune, what money has the club made from that investment? Feel for you Bull fans.

Luke Burgess and JP have both pledged.

If anybody mentions escrow again, pleeeeeeeeease switch your capslock off; the news is close to driving me insane, and one more ESCROW could tip me over the edge.

I haven't come on here this season for obvious reasons but upon hearing the news this morning my heart dropped. I hope you can get yourselves out of this mess, Super League wouldn't be the same without Bradford Bulls in it.

Good luck from all at Cas.

ESCROW, ESCROW, ESCROW!

Thanks, I needed a laugh!

Lool, NP, Dude.

I'm literally putting everything I can into this cause.

Mr Bennetts R8 would put a dent in the 500k figure.

It does appear as though Hood and the directors are holding a gun to the loyal supporters heads. Pledge £100 to save the club that means so much to you from the mess that we have put the club in and we can carry on. What are the ramifications for the directors if you save the club? Its a dreadful position to be put in.
The directors have to be put in the position where they are forced to answer all the awkward questions that you want answered. Give a full and frank detail of the club's finances.
Good Luck!

depressed!!!!

to pledge or not to pledge?

not pledging = folding

pleding = giving hood et al more money

because the RFL own the ground they could open up the franchise to another operator couldnt they????
would love to hear an RFL statement on all of this!


or are we just trying to scare the bank into letting us have an overdraft.

Hood has eroded any trust i may have had for him and his cronies. He was dealt a crap hand by CAisley, but has gambled and lost and the stake was our club. we reformed in 1963-4 and eventually became winners again.
one thing i dont want is any suggestion thst the RFL or Bradford MDC bail us out. start afresh, in Bradford, and live to our means!

Run by the fans, for the fans.

Franking 11000 letters first class would have cost over 5k for the mailshot that is even before envelopes and paper/ink.

Wouldn't happen.

I can't help feeling that Mr Hood has decided heart-strings are linked to purse-strings and then the whole exercise seems a little cynical all of a sudden...

Could well happen.

Really sorry to hear about all this. As a lifelong Trinity supporter I know the pain you are feeling at the moment. It's a tough call as to whether to try and save the club as it is or wait for the inevitable and reform and regroup. Every situation is different. We did the latter and it's worked for us but the pain of those few weeks was really horrible. I do NOT want to see other clubs circling to pick over the bones like they did with us - no team in our RL community should do that and it took Tony Smith over at Warrington to remind everyone of that just over a year ago. Let's not see it happen again.

All I can say is that you have my suuport and I'm sure that goes for a lot of other Trinity fans as well.

Anyone unsure whether to pledge or not – go look at the Leeds Rhinos message board and see what most of them are saying.

If we go into administration the vultures come in and take our best young talent. I would gladly pay £100 to not have to see koppy in a Leeds shirt next season!

Imagine if we can raise the money and stay competitive, what message would that send to the rest of super league – we are a massive a club with loyal supporters!

If we go bust and have to rebuild we lose our best players and possibly end up in the championship.

I’ll probably pledge £50, buy this seasons home shirt and pay in to the leeds game(rather than using my season ticket). At least that way it seems like I am getting something for my £100.

But you forgot to mention that they're in exactly the same style and with the same marketing prose, tinged as ever with the aim of inciting guilt, that has been used throughout. No sense of shame it appears amongst our board. We the fans should feel guilt in case by not pledging we deprive our kids of the opportunity to watch the Bulls at Odsal. Similarly given the 'pledge' tactic is evoked once more, perhaps it might be worth looking at the economics of the cheap season ticket deal and previous pledges.

I don't think the choice is as stark as the Board are suggesting - pay up or fold, they've had time to prepare this and the letters evidence that, which means they've been disingenuous with the fan base and see us as a soft touch. If they've had time to plan this 'quest for survival' I would rather they had put it in to setting out the terms of a share issue through which we might change the structure of the club and clarify ownership.

Firstly, I would hate to see the Bulls or any other team go out of business, it is not good for the cause of RL in general for this to happen.

Secondly, if there is to be a revival of the current club, I think it is wholly unrealistic for the club to come cap in hand to the fans. As has been pointed out, this is a privately owned business, if the current owners want to approach the fans for funding they must surely have to be prepared to give up shares in exchange for funds. This would give the Fans both a share in the benefits any revival might bring but also some visibility of the real situation and a say in how the club / company is run going forward.

I hope that the Bulls can emerge form this current crisis, strengthen and move forward. But I think it is a massive ask.

Good Luck