From a fan who is only 22 and has only really seen the good times when the bulls were a Giant in Super league i've become to accept that the team needed rebuilding and that results were going to be poor after 2005 once we started letting our world class players go but now i just feel sick. its an absolute disgrace how the board and hood have handled this they need fired asap and i couldnt care less where they go aslong as its not involved with another rugby club ever again because people like this are just absolute poisen to the sports we love.

As a student i would pledge but not until i know whats happened and where its going to go

That isnt entirely true, Caisley and Noble both left the club because Hood wanted to change things overnight and too fast, instead of over a period of time - And my sauce is HP lol - no actually got told this a while back from a former employee of our beloved bulls. But that is all in the past and the time is now.............

Because RL needs the Bradford Bulls to survive.

I'll raid my copper jar see if I can scrape something together to help out.

I bought a T &A at 9am and was shocked.I have supported Northern and Bulls since 1978, along with my childrenand now their children.We are all Season Ticket holders, some fixed for 5 years.To read the Chairman state that "the Bulls had not originally expected to pay back all of the monies owed to the RFL straight away" is beyond belief. Didnt they read the conditions to which they signed up. A pack of lies reeled out early in the year.I even congratulated him at the Shirt Presentation Evening - and now feel like an absolute mug for having done so.
Far too early for me to think straight enough about the future. How dare they do this to our Club and its Fans.

What an awful state of affairs, I'm so sorry for the fans and players.

Provided there's some kind of assurance of what the money would be used for, I would happily donate - a Super League without Bradford Bulls is unthinkable IMO.

Really hope that there's light at the end of the tunnel for you all soon.

As a Salford fan can I just express the wish that your club pulls through this crisis. Good luck.

In that case the RFL can still let Bradford Bulls go under and make an offer to the administrator and set up a new company, and they have a debt free company new Rugby Club? They are the governing body, so they can still keep Bradford as a SL club!!!

Why do you want the RFL want to support a debt ridden private Ltd company to the tune of £1m when they can take ownership form the administrator for a fraction of that amount of money?

We all want to see the Bulls survive but why should the games money be used to bail out private individuals when there is no need to actually do that???

This is why when you take the emotion out of it, most people are advising the Bradford fans to keep their hands and money in their pockets... the RFL will and quite rightly so!

Not read the thread, but i'm sure i speak for every Wigan fan in wishing you well.

I think all that will happen is that you go into administration, lose all your best players, a new buyer will come in to take over the club and run it like it should of been done. Exactly the same happened at wakey and im really glad it happened because it flushed out all the deadwood backroom staff and brought in a new owner that really is striving to make a difference at the club. I think going into admin would be the best solution all round for years to come.

Simple people have stopped believing a word that comes out of Hoods mouth.

I don't think there can be more than a very small handful of posts on the leeds baord saying they'd want to see the Bulls in administration, so I don't think your "what most of them are saying" is remotely true.

Asked which players at Bradford would make useful additons to the squad, most could answer, but not many actually want to see it happen.

And despite what you might think reading some of the stuff on there, the posters on Southstander have very little say in recruitment at Leeds. I think it's quite unlikely that any of your senior squad would end up at Headingley if you did have to sell them off. Which I hope you don't. As good a player as Kopczak is, there are already plenty of front-rowers on contract at Leeds, so it wouldn't be as simple as saying "ooh, we like the look of that one better, let's have him."

The bit that would worry me is the 6th April deadline - the end of the tax year, suggesting that a payment is due to the IR before you get to paying players a week later.

You need unity on the terraces and you need to get organised and quick - but you know that. One of your own needs to demonstrate some leadership and bring you all together; you can salvage your club - but it may mean hard choices and making sacrifices - but none can be so great as sacrificing YOUR club.

He does have form though, with statements like 'we are not a selling club' being made after Fielden went, with the likes of Newton, Burgess and Lynch all following in due course.

Don't often agree with redeveready but he's right here. I won't pledge because I do not trust where that money goes, or whether it would stop it happening again.

The prospect of starting again looks more appealing by the minute to me

Has it not occured to some on here who are questioning fans commitment that money doesnt grow on tree's? Not everyone can afford to pledge to a club that have lied to them? Every fan does'nt want days like this but how the board are begging for money like this with such short notice is insane

So far I have filled out the pledge form at least four times and then closed the window. I can't bring myself to do it, and I can't bring myself not to.

I have the money, and I have a little over a week to decide.

It's up to the club to convince me to do it. I want transparency, not a guilt trip, and I want it from someone who is not Hood. He might be a deft administrator for all I know but right now every sentence he utters in public has the inverted Midas touch to it. The words glitter but they're made from 5hit.

Totally gutted with todays news. I really dont trust Peter Hood with our money, even though i want to save our club. The best thing he can do is stand down. We have belived him everytime he's come out and said were stable, leading everyone to trust him, look at us now, we are 2 weeks from going under.
It's brilliant how everyone is rallying round trying to save us.

The question is, if you raise this million quid will you be back where you are now six months, a year down the line. The clubs obviously been run shat like it was at wakey for years. Admin was the best for us for a clen slate, by the sound of it, it probs is for you too.

Nail on head.

I've only spoken to a couple of other people today about this who are Bradford fans and that was the exact phrase used by one, agreed with by the other.

Definitely not the first, certainly won't be the last to say good luck Bulls fans. You deserve better than this

One of the most gutting things is, we are bringing so many quality young players through at the minute and it looks like if any offers come in for any of them we will have to sell.

Any money someone comes in for Bateman in april

I think the agents will already be touting the players to other clubs and that is the sad thing for the Bulls. A club that says have £50k for Bateman tomorrow is likely to get him. If the board turn it down, they would be selling the fans short by risking the whole club.