Why was it announced it had been liquidated ?

Quote ="GUBRATS"my vote goes on asking Barrow or a Cumbrian club to take a step up and consign a Bradford club to a 2018 start in Championship 1'" Toronto are ready :- www.skysports.com/rugby-league/n ... ship-place

Quote ="GUBRATS"my vote goes on asking Barrow or a Cumbrian club to take a step up and consign a Bradford club to a 2018 start in Championship 1'" Toronto are ready :- www.skysports.com/rugby-league/n ... ship-place

Quote ="Tigerade"Toronto are ready :- www.skysports.com/rugby-league/n ... ship-place'" I don't believe they should step right in, but I do think Rowell has a serious point, do we believe the RFL would have gone to this extent to help Sheffield?

Quote ="Tigerade"Toronto are ready :- www.skysports.com/rugby-league/n ... ship-place'" I don't believe they should step right in, but I do think Rowell has a serious point, do we believe the RFL would have gone to this extent to help Sheffield?

Well we know they once fed Sheffield in small slices to Huddersfield in order to stave off financial difficulties there so one would assume not.

Your point is a solid one - a clear case of the extraordinary lengths gone to to help Bradford that no other club would ever receive.

I view the RFLs involvement with Bradford as having walked blindly into some quicksand and the more they try to get out , the deeper they sink in

You and me both. Shame it gets worse each time.

I initially wrote out an analogy involving dog , but decided against using it

Any more rumours on the grape vine tonight ?

Yes. I'm a c0ck hair off done with hair shirt designers.

Why not ask Sheffield to become Bradford, like American Football, and solve a few problems?
It wont solve the main one though, the games inability to truely professional and business savvy.

In what way asking 1 club to ' become ' another going to improve either ?

You really are full of sheeit

Not sure Sheffield would be up for doing that again

I agree. It would be unlikely to be considered by Sheffield even if the RFL were to propose they do it as the current Sheffield club was set up by Aston and co. in response to the original club being swallowed up by Huddersfield, thus leaving Sheffield (the city) without a club. I know they are playing in Wakefield this year but that is a short term fix until the new ground in Sheffield is ready.

Played nearer to Rotherham in 2016....that was a short term fix too...and was it Doncaster in 2015

o brien has been announced as going to huddersfield not hull fc

10% of something is always better than 100% of Nothing but hey you are the one with the finger on the pulse obviously.
Keep the blinkers on, they do suit you and as for thinking outside the box .............
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So which 2 nd tier Aussie team sells 6,000 + season tickets to fans that attend every game ?

So we move Sheffield to Odsal and call them Bradford. That would work

To be fair to Leaguefan (not always an easy option) in the American model, the franchise such as Raiders and Rams moves cities not the other way round so we would have the Sheffield Bulls playing in Sheffield

That's what your club did to avoid relegation

Regards

King James

Been saved by a couple of blokes with no money I'm hearing

So we have a Championship team in Sheffield ( used to be a SL team but failed ) that have nowhere suitable to play , hardly any fans and no visible benefactor , and his suggestion is to change their name ?

So this will work how exactly ?

Where did I say that it would work? I was merely pointing out that in the NFL franchise system the 'Bulls' would go to Sheffield as opposed to sending Sheffield to Bradford an option offered by another poster

Neither option works , both clubs are currently bolloxed , putting the together wouldn't solve anything

What they do in the US is irrelevant to RL

Relevant or not I didn't bring the US system into the argument someone else did.

Again I never said it would work with the particular clubs mentioned in THEIR Rugby League example, but, tried to suggest that the system that THEY were trying to use, the NFL method of franchising wasn't strictly correct. For example, the Oakland RAIDERS that temporarily went to Los Angeles and the Los Angeles RAMS had spent some time as the St Louis RAMS

Hence as a direct comparative, Bradford BULLS become Sheffield BULLS in THEIR example in Sheffield

I think its quite clear now that with the Batley friendly being called off due to the lack of players at Bradford its time to forget for them season and hope something can be sorted out for next season.