Quote ="wrencat1873"It was a poor do all round and it would appear that the ramifications are still being felt by both the club and the RFL.
The lesson to be learned from this is that other than helping to ensure that fixtures are fulfilled (although this doesn't seem to happen in the much wealthier round ball game), They should keep well away from club politics.
The whole thing stunk at the time and as more time passes, their decision has been shown to be and absolute shocker.
I wonder how many of those involved at the RFL are still there ?'"
In july 2013, David Hughes had a massive dummy spit and informed feilding supremo Gus MacKay that he'd had it with london. This was after the side had been humiliated 70-0 in the cup semi and he said it was time to wind back his investment.
He put the club up for grabs, but by this stage of his tenure, hed pretty much destroyed any commercial worth and there was little interest..... So the after much cajoling, the RFL convinved the owner of Barnet FC to take the club in as tenants, with a £100,000 marketing budget sweetener... Of which £0.00 was spent on marketing...... The team was ramshackle, the coach a joke and we won 1 game in 2014........BUT, the year off from heavy lifting allowed hughes to rethink and now we have a semi-stable championship set up and the club survived.
My point is..... I'll slag off the rfl in many areas, but in this one instance, they probably saved professional RL from retreating 30 years.
Edit: That saying, they are certainly complicit in thendemise of Bradford. IMHO, they were treated likena favourite spoilt child when some tough love may have served them better
