It seems amazing to me that anyone is prepared to gift cash to a failed management team unless it were to be done as a new share issue - then all those helping in the bail-out would have a real stake in the club and a mechanism to hold the directors to account.
Don't do it that way and all you've done is reward incompetence - and that never works!
Desperate situation for such a high profile club, I do sympathise with all you Bulls fans

i think it is more important to keep the club going just now.if they manage to survive then im sure it will be dealt with by those with the power to do such things,or the money, but at the moment im prepared to risk £100 to keep my club going.

I've pledged that's 400 quid from our house.

After listening to Radio Leeds I'm more confident that we'll do it and TBH I don't want this to be the end of the club.

The way I'm looking at it is that 175 (it was 75 quid this year wasn't it?) for a season ticket is better than spending 75 quid on a useless plastic card.

The way i feel now i would pay £100 to help us survive if it was guaranteed, which is basically what the pledge is!

£100 promise to give us a chance, a no brainer to me

Cannot believe the news that such a great club such as yours is in trouble.

You embraced superleague like no other, and was held up as the way forward.

Hope you sort it out and get back on track.

I thought long and hard before pledging today. Loathe as I am to give £200 to the fools who seem to be intent on running our great club into the ground, ultimately this is what made me do it:
1. The thought of no more Bulls. That just can't happen.
2. The almost overwhelming support of other club's fans. If they are supporting us, then how can we not do everythin in out power to keep ourselves going.
3. The almost unimaginable thought of our greatest talent playing in another team's shirt. That would be hard to stomach.
4. Even with this pledge, it is still only the price of a season ticket.
5. It's the Bulls. It's Bradford's club. It's our club. We can't let them die. We can't.

It's not the time to rant and rave. It's not the time to sack the board. Right now we need to secure the club's future. Right now, we need to get through this. The fall-out will continue, but right now let's keep our beloved club alive to fight another day.
Come on you Bulls.

When we went into admin i never thought for one second that we would not exist so there is no reason to think the same. I am sure there are a few takers for the Bulls but only if you go into admin. The current board more than likely have been struggling for some time now but won't want to let go of Bulls unless there is something in it for them.

I can understand why people are hesitant to pledge, but you seriousley can't consider administration as a viable option??? If we don't have our licence revoked, we will have to endure a painful season of thrashing after thrashing, with a squad we barely recognise as we lose all the likes of Koppy, Bateman, Whitehead etc. Then at the end of the season, we reform as Bradford RLFC, playing in alien colours & plying our trade in championship 1, against the likes of Londan Skolars and Gateshead Thunder! (no disrespect)

But sure, we have a club with a clean sheet, a club run by the people for the people.... Rubbish!

Get behind our club.... surely it is worth saving! Yeah the BoD needs addressing, but if we fail to deliver now there will be nothing more to address!

I don't even want to contemplate losing the Bulls, this club means far too much to us to lose it! And I'm shocked at the amount of people who think administration is the best option!

NO BRAINER!

Spot on for me this.

After a day of soul searching it comes to this:

The priority is saving this club. The protest over Hood out comes AFTER, which it will from me.

I understand your feelings and why you are coming to this conclusion at the moment but I would implore you and all Bulls fans to let the initial emotions settle down over the next couple of days and then think again. Go over to the Wakey board and ask the sensible and prominent posters what they think you should do with your £100... it won't be give it to the current failed management. You should all think seriously and calmly about what the fans can do as a collective with your £100 and more. Bullbuilder should change it's scope or a new supporters trust should be set up with a specific aim of trying to save your club for the long term and you should give them a £100. If you give the current management your £100 you will probably be in the same position again in six months, will not be any better off and £100 worse off!

I think many of you need to wake up and smell the coffee!

Save your money and start thinking what you can really do to save your club

£100 seems a gamble worth taking to me

How sure are we it's going to save the club. We've been misled before so whats different now.

The problem with administration is that they have to somehow get a team to Widnes on Easter Monday and put a game on against the Giants two weeks after.

If all the suppliers get letters from the administrator saying they aren't getting a penny from the club and have to apply to get whatever they can get back I can't see that being possible. Is that coach going to turn up on the Monday for example? Or are the police going to provide the neccessary officers at the ground on the following Sunday? Are the company that provide the stewards going to stand by the club?

If the club can't fulfill their fixtures the RFL will be forced to boot them out and then it's not a viable business.

The thing which is pi$$ing me off the most is not one member of the board are willing to put their hand and say we messed up. It's all blame this blame that the radio interview was even more annoying all it was lets put a guilt trip on the fans.

Plenty of RL and football clubs have managed it in similar situations over the years.

I suspect I won't be sure. I'd be willing to throw £100 in to be honest despite how angry I feel right now. If I had complete faith in the people running the club I'd probably throw a bit more money their way.

I've been genuinely moved by the efforts of our own players past and present to raise money for the club. Players inc Whitehead, Bateman, Ainy and Chev are all auctioning things on eBay as we speak.

I'm going to back the pledge, to what value I shall have to give some thought about in the next couple of days.

Exactly!

Our situation is vastly different to the one wakefield faced! Aministration is simply not an option, it isn't viable for us and if it happens the bulls as we know them will cease to exist! We are dealing with a short term cash flow issue, and once we resolve this we are clear of ALL DEBT! And are said to have a viable business plan to go into motion. In contrast to Wakefield, I see administration doing far more damage to our club than good! We need to act to save the club!

The support from the greater rugby league community as a whole has been overwhelming, but I'm sick of people suggesting giving up on the situation and accepting administration is the best option... thanks for the advice, but we will do our best to save our beloved bulls!

The administrators job is to try and rescue the company and I really can't see the RFL's favoured administrator, O'Hara's, who handled Wakefield's and Crusaders administration, letting this happen. The RFL will rightly most probably step in and tell O'Hara that they will cover the costs of supporting the team in the short term, paying the players and coach, while O'Hara looks for a buyer for the business as a going concern. The thing is, as exactly happened at Wakefield, no-one is going to step in until the club goes in administration because they are not going to burden themselves with the existing debt. Also, with the image rights issue with HMRC seemingly still not fully resolved them you also have a unknown future tax liability that could be a reasonably significant sum of money.

The RFL will support the Bulls in the short term, just as they did at the end of the season with the Crusaders players but even they are not stupid enough to put any money into a failing management for nothing or no guarantee. They have already bought the lease for Odsal, probably knowing this was coming, so you have a ground for a 'new' phoenix club to play, to aid a pre-pack company to emerge under a new owner.

Is it a risk going into administration, yes, of course and you will lose 4 points, lose players in fire sale but I suspect under new ownership you could not only rebuild but thrive in the long term... you need look no further than Wakefield who have shown under dynamic new ownership, that you can run a sustainable business once the burden of that debt is gone!

Be careful what you all wish for...

I know but where has the money come from to carry on trading? The administrator hasn't got any. Someone's paid out of there own pocket to keep suppliers happy. For example when connaught went into admin the workers had to pay out of their own pockets to fill up the vans (whilst not getting any wages).

I'm sure the staff and players would continue to play and work for free because they don't get paid by the administrator but would the shreholders be prepared or have enough to stick that cash in that they won't get back?

We don't know any of this. I personally decided to take the appeal as genuine.

Raising 500k before next week will be almost impossible. Then you have to do it all again. Even if it can could the board be believed with the claim that sum will sort the problem? They said just a couple of months ago that the finances were secure after the ground sale. Why should they be trusted? If they are wrong this time then there will be nowhere to go. The players will have already sold their shirts, the fundraising bled dry and the pledges gone. People will have nothing left to give. Can you trust the same people that got you into his mess to get you out of it because i'm not sure i would. But give them the money rather than your trust and it is a big risk.

No it's not... it is almost exactly the same... and I was accidentally in a front row seat during Wakefield's administration and take-over by Andrew Glover, so I do have more of an insight than most!

In fact, I remember Ted Richardson standing in front of a room full of very passionate Trinity supporter and saying pretty much exactly what you have posted above... strange that!

Finally, it saving the Bulls I am most interested in too despite them not being 'my' club... and I do have a track record to back me up!

So you know for a fact that the RFL will stump up the costs to put these games on while the club's in administration?

Quote ="Jonesy's a Legend"can i just say that i come here in peace and am in no way enjoying the predicament that your great club is in at the moment,i sincerely hope that there is a way back for you as sl would be a worse place without you I have often been accused of being nothing more than a troll on here due to my negative posts,but i was merely trying to convey the information that i was told in confidence to you in order that you could seek the relevant answers at your fans forum evenings I have just posted this on southstander viewtopic.php?f=17&t=523095&p=16797027#p16797027 the hints and clues were clearly there but you all just ignored them?'" and as a neighbour down the allotment thats a Hudds fan has pointed out: wheres the Leeds new stand, and where will the £ 2m parachute that Leeds will need to repay to the RU when they do not get immediate promotion come from? Paul "the construction business is up the Sh@t" Caddick"? Seems like our payments for the has been Harris have kept Leeds afloat this last couple of years, so less lip dickseys a leg end, we have been subsidising you.

Quote ="Jonesy's a Legend"can i just say that i come here in peace and am in no way enjoying the predicament that your great club is in at the moment,i sincerely hope that there is a way back for you as sl would be a worse place without you I have often been accused of being nothing more than a troll on here due to my negative posts,but i was merely trying to convey the information that i was told in confidence to you in order that you could seek the relevant answers at your fans forum evenings I have just posted this on southstander viewtopic.php?f=17&t=523095&p=16797027#p16797027 the hints and clues were clearly there but you all just ignored them?'" and as a neighbour down the allotment thats a Hudds fan has pointed out: wheres the Leeds new stand, and where will the £ 2m parachute that Leeds will need to repay to the RU when they do not get immediate promotion come from? Paul "the construction business is up the Sh@t" Caddick"? Seems like our payments for the has been Harris have kept Leeds afloat this last couple of years, so less lip dickseys a leg end, we have been subsidising you.