just looked on the bulls board,doesnt look good for them

Coaches and backroom staff being made redundant. 16 people all together, biggest name being Mick Potter.

Doubt they'll play at the weekend.

elima sounds really p.ssed off, wonder who where are after? think we are gonna see a lot of player transfers coming up

Its awful,staff players and fans paying the price for poor mismanagment.

It cost them almost £700K for harris thats more than the world record transfer fee.

crazy

the administrators remain hopeful of fulfilling their fixtures. cant see how they can though

No chance theyll be able to play the remaining fixtures without any coaching staff whatsoever!

No chance theyll be able to play the remaining fixtures without any coaching staff whatsoever!

It may be a case of simply putting out a side of 17 available bodies each week for the remainder of the season, whoever those 17 may be and wherever they may have come from.

However, if they then end up fielding a team of Championship2 standard players, then that is no better than the club failing to fulfill their fixtures. It would effectively be a bye with 2pts for whoever happened to be facing them.

Credit must go to the players who went to Wigan and won last Friday, it would have been easy for them to think "what's the point". It is looking pretty desperate though and really doesn't reflect well on a supposedly modern day professional sport.

Perhaps "Nobby" will go back and help them out till end of season FOC. Or even Royce Simmons, but think Nobby is most likely.

If they don't fulfill all fixtures does that mean all previous fixtures become null and void?

Feel the fans and players.

They are looking for a coach who will work for free

I share that sentiment and it is sobering for all clubs - even the handful of sustainable ones need opponents.

On the first point, it is complicated by the Magic weekend - Leeds would end the season on 'played 26'.

Plus what happens regarding teams with home fixtures yet to be played? That is a fairly significant loss of revenue.

SL will bust a gut to get those games played somehow.

While the redundancies is being seen as the death throes, it could be a case of clearing the decks for new owners. Or calling certain people's bluff. Pretty brutal if that is the case.

Very worrying news for the sport. Feel sorry for the Bradford fans, especially those who have stumped up hard earned cash for the club recently.

And let's not forget former players giving away medals and shirts to be auctioned off.

Why would they count the millenium fixture? That round is separate and every other team has played that round. come on its not rocket science

We managed for nearly 4 years

Fairest thing would be to allow fixtures to date to stand and to award 2 points for all remaining ones

Because it wasn't seperate, if you won you still got 2 points.

If Bradford cannot fullfill their remaining fixtures, the likely outcome is that all previous results, involving Bradford would be expunged. So our 2 points that we gained from them would vanish. That would then leave the anomaly of the Magic Weekend and the only fair way is to expunge [uall[/u points from that weekend too.

But then that gives an advantage to the teams they've beat previously. For instance we'd lose 2 points, Rovers wouldn't.

How is it separate? The points count in the league. And all the teams play every round.

What alternative is there? If you let the results stand then not all teams will have played the same number of games by the end of the season. And we'd most likely gain back the 2 points we dropped against Rovers in Manchester so there'd be no net advantage.

There is no perfect way to deal with a side that can't fulfil its fixtures. Why do you think the RFL are so hell-bent on Bradford finishing the season?

Someone on twitter at the supporters meeting in Bradford just said

"£430,000 is owned in tax to HMRC on top of the £270,000 we already owe in image rights"

All of Bradfords victories will count as defeats , so all who lost to bradford will be awarded two points.
All of bradfords remaining opponents will be given a two point bye.
Presuming of course , that Bradford dont fulfil there remaining fixtures.

Has anybody done the double over them yet? Or have they done it to anyone else? Those that they've already beaten get 2 points for the return match, those that have already beaten them don't get anything for the games left to play. That way everybody has lost 1 and won 1. Doesn't really solve Leeds' problem.