I've heard of him. Is he the one with bags of potential?

Put a 20k bid in for Burgess. They won't be able to turn it down.

They've got to raise £500K, of course they'll turn £20K down.

Il give it 24 hours until the famous Wigan rumour mill has us down for signing at least 6 Bradford players.

Diskin as a second hooker anyone???

100K for Kearney would be my choice. Kearney at #1, Tomkins at 6, Finch at 7.

I think young Burgess will defo go to Oz like he got offered originally now , it would be a no brainier for me .

If the club was to go bust in four weeks, why bother paying a transfer fee? All the players would be free agents. Forget Bugress/Whitehead - John Bateman will be the one clubs will be fighting for.

That aside, what horrific news to wake up to this morning. Not too long ago Bradford were part of the illustrious 'big four'. They're decline has been horrible to witness. This is terrible news for the game.

Asking supporters to cough up £100 and raise 500K in two and a half weeks just does not look like happening. Their board has a lot to answer for. They gave Elliot Whitehead a new five-year-deal only a couple of weeks ago!

Without a doubt

He's exactly what we want IMO to take control of the ruck when Micky Mac comes off, we can leave Tommy at 7 then.

So this is why the RFL bailed them out i guess to try save the red faces after giving them a licence.

This now needs to turn the spotlight on the system that grants the licences as i cant seeing this being a new problem and it is unfair on teams like Halifax.

No, the RFL bought their stadium off them to secure it before it fell into the hands of receivers. This also gave Bradford the ability to pay the debt off that they owed the RFL. The RFL have been very astute here.

There is no way the RFL will let Bradford fold after buying stadium and I wonder if that's why first 5 games of there's was televised too , to promote there sponsors more !!

There could be an opportunity here for a franchise bid from a Welsh club. They love their rugby in Wales. It could be massive.

What's the bet that the second Exiles game is played at Odsal to help them. It would be a good idea.

There can't be many clubs with cap space to make decent enough offers. Wire, saints and Leeds must be close to max. We should have money to spare for at least one of them. Bateman would be my choice.

Won't the money go to the RFL? It is their ground after all.

I know its different, but they did make exceptions for the Crusaders players..

And mine, but he'll be the one all the clubs want. I really hope they can get sorted out though.

The RFL should make exceptions like they did with Crusaders players. The game can't just leave 20+ first grade players without any income.

Bring back Karl Pryce

How on earth were Bradford awarded a Grade B license?

If Bulls go bust what happens to points for all teams won against them?? Will they move a Championship team into Superleague?? But then who takes the place of the Championship team?? Surely the RFL need to start coming up with idea's now. If they can't be sure they can play after the Leeds game should they be allowed to play the game due to how it could all end up affecting the competition?? As a fan of Rugby League I hope they can get through this but looking at it as a realist how can they let a club with potentially no future beyond 2 weeks still be in there.

Bradford will do what London did a few years back. Fold and reform a new club under the same name.

Which is precisely why they sold the stadium lease to the RFL, so that if they are liquidated the administrators don't have an asset to sell to pay off the creditors giving Bradford Bulls 2012 somewhere to play.

It's seem pretty obviously that both the Bulls and the RFL knew this was to happen months ago.