Respect to Omar. Here's hoping he can get some other Bradford businesses on board too. He can't be expected to shoulder the burden all alone.

I think the misguided concept was that sport is a business. It is not, there are similarities and there are business principles that can be used to run a club, keeping costs low and revenues as high as possible.



However, if TESCO's want people to spend more money, they can open for longer, sell a different range of products, etc etc.



Sporting clubs cannot. If the Bulls suddenly started selling Leeds matches, they would not make more money.



They can't add extra games.



Put simply, you could have the best players in the world, as Bradford did, when their time expires, the costs of those players far outstrip the revenues from the few extra fans, also other clubs will not stand by and let one team continue forever at the top of the game.



With sport it's never going to make money except for the one or two teams at the very top, with a large enough fan base.



The only way you could stop clubs going bust is to have a breakeven rule, but that would mean clubs living within their means and so the pecking order of clubs would become more fixed and moving out of that order more difficult.



There is the american model which is a true franchise system, but I am not sure if this stops clubs going bust.



Most footy clubs with all the wealth that there is in that sport still struggle to breakeven.



Supporters desire for success, undermines any financial stability.

Hope this comes to reality and assuming it does it's great news for the Bulls but also RL in general. Can't understand why so many supposed fans of the game took so much delight in the difficulties and possible demise of Bradford (including some fans of my own team). As has been pointed out I would think the vast majority of clubs are treading a very thin line and we should all be wary. As with other sports single ownership by a money man is ok as long as he retains interest and health.

Good luck to the Bulls (except against us last game of the season!), although I admit never been my favourite team I would hate to see them, or any other club, going under.

I think sometimes it might be an excuse when, for other reasons, someone is unable to go to games. A lot of people are finding it hard to to justify the cost of watching sport each week when their disposable income is dropping - maybe, "I'm not going whilst he's in charge", is just a way of saving face. I'm pretty sure Bradford is neither alone with nor immune to those pressures.

It makes you wonder where all the 'backers' for Messrs Hood and Caisley have gone. Supposedly they were queueing up to join either scheme should their man have won the power battle. Perhaps they are not true Bulls fans (always assuming they existed in the first place).

It so is. It's pathetic. Really pathetic. I mean, if the person in charge even KNEW that X wasn't going because X was in charge, that would at least be something, if not much, but X doesn't know, doesn't care, wouldn't care if he did, and doesn't know X from Adam. Utterly empty and pointless gesture, even if true.

Well we've a huge resource that is only used 14 times a season and that's Odsal.



It seems the new board are trying to correct this with things like the concerts they've put on. But they really need to up the usage to actually make the place worthwhile. But really, there's no money in RL, regardless of which team is being discussed.

I saw an absolutely huge Asian wedding going on at Odsal a few months back. There must have been hundreds of guests as the convoy of cars and limos stretched way down Halifax Road. That kind of thing must bring in a few bob.

I can't think of a more romantic setting

Why the wink????

I think it's ideal for any big celebration; the Coral stand is far enough away from any housing for noise not to be a [major problem and the interior is a nice environment and, no doubt, even better when done up with the the usual wedding ornamentation etc.

Well there's a piece in today's T&A about how OK could lose everything without additional investment. Tbh though, it seems more like an attempt to guilt stay away fans into buying tickets and stop being armchair supporters.



It also said that we're waiting to hear from the RFL regards more money for Kopczak