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It's certainly "easier" to change your story when it becomes even more clear how ridiculous this plan to stick a new club in at the last minute is, what with all the players walking away and still nothing announced.
It's hostile because you people have repeatedly failed to understand something that is really, really simple, even when it has been clearly explained to you multiple times. Once again, it's not about which club is more 'ready' to compete in the Championship in 2017, it doesn't matter that Bradford don't currently exist or if other teams might be able to perform better. It's about not adversely affecting the long-term plans of any other clubs because Bradford f**ked up. I don't know what part of this you don't understand.
"You people"
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/league/news/article.cfm?c_id=79&objectid=11782310
The RFL has agreed to a deal from a consortium to form a new club in Bradford for the 2017 campaign.
The Bradford Bulls went into administration in November and were liquidated on January 3.
The RFL is yet to identify the consortium with the winning consortium, but is believed New Zealandbusinessman Andrew Chalmers is behind it.
The governing body said in a statement: "The RFL is pleased to announce that an agreement has been reached with a consortium to create a new professional Rugby League club in Bradford.
"Following a thorough review and consultation with potential owners throughout the week, the RFL Board approved a decision to offer membership of the League to a consortium that it believes offers an exciting and stable future for Rugby League in Bradford.
"As previously communicated, the new club will begin the 2017 season in the Kingstone PressChampionship on minus 12 points.
"The owners will arrive at Odsal early next week and will at that point speak with former players, staff and relevant stakeholders before holding a press conference to reveal their identity and outline their vision for the future."
RFL Director of Operations and Legal, Karen Moorhouse, said: “The last few weeks have been extremely difficult for all those involved, particularly the former players, staff and families of Bradford Bulls.
"They have conducted themselves with complete professionalism and integrity throughout this period.
“The RFL is confident that the consortium selected to run a new club in Bradford will provide an exciting and stable future for Rugby League in the city.
"They outlined a strong vision, have relevant and extensive experience and we are confident that they offer the best opportunity to take a new club forward.
"We have always said that the city of Bradford needs and deserves a Rugby League club that it can be proud of and we believe this new club can deliver that.”
Chalmers, who has sat on the board of the Salford Red Devils, previously had a bid for the Bulls denied by the administrator.
But his proposal has now won out over three others for Bradford.
In the past Chalmers was the chairman of the New Zealand Rugby League.
The new Bradford club will start the Championshipseason minus 12 points and play their home games at Odsal.
According to reports former NZ, Manly and Wigan coach Graham Lowe is also part of Chalmer's group
http://www.loverugbyleague.com/news_24575-rfl-approves-bradford-deal.html
It could be argued that it's unfair in principle, depending on whether you consider it to be a new club or a continuation of the old one with new ownership. Practically there isn't any other option at this stage, as has been explained to you multiple times. It's not 'elitist' to think that people in Britain with a lifetime of involvement in British RL probably know more about what's going on than casual observers from thousands of miles away. I don't think any questions have been unanswered, you've just repeatedly ignored the answers in favour of some nonsensical conspiracy theory bullshit.
), if you want to keep pushing unworkable ideas even when it has been explained to you exactly why they are unworkable then that's on you. I'm just trying to tell you why the outcome that is happening will be happening. You don't have to listen but it will still be happening.People have suggested something like this but the problem is that the standard would be so low that it would pretty much be pointless for these teams to exist. Competing against established heartland teams in League 1 is essential for the expansion teams to develop.
You can't have one rule for one club and another rule for another.
Failed Bradford bidder Richard Lamb brands RFL ‘amateurish’
• Accuses officials of paying lip service to plans involving £1m of his own money
• Lamb adds it felt ‘like they knew who they wanted all along’
The process to find a new club to replace Bradford Bulls has been described as ‘a shambles’. Photograph: Dave Howarth/PA
Aaron Bower
Monday 16 January 2017 10.04 AEDT
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One of the bidders who lost out in the race to launch a rugby league club in Bradford following the demise of Bradford Bulls has described the Rugby Football League’s handling of the affair as “amateurish”, saying he is yet to hear from the sport’s governing body as to why his bid failed.
Richard Lamb, the chief executive of the Championship rugby union side Rotherham, says he was prepared to invest a million pounds of his own money in a new rugby league club in the city following the liquidation of the four-times Super League champions this month.
The RFL instead opted for a bid believed to be led by the former New Zealand Rugby League chairman Andrew Chalmers, who will lay out his vision for the club this week.
In response Lamb has been highly critical of how the process was handled by those at the top of the sport. “The whole thing has been an absolute shambles,” he told the Guardian. “I was going to invest a million pounds of my own money into a rugby club and they haven’t even got the courtesy or decency to ring me until after it’s been leaked? They are morally bankrupt as an organisation.
“On Friday I had an experience of two different governing bodies; the RFU were ultra-professional in a meeting I had and seemed to genuinely care – but the other, who I’m about to spend a million pounds with, can’t even be bothered to ring me and talk to me. You wonder why participation is going through the floor in rugby league – it’s symptomatic of the problems the sport has.”
Lamb’s proposal, which involved a fans’ trust owning a majority stake in the new club, was overlooked in favour of Chalmers’ bid – but he says he was not asked once about how he planned to put a squad together to start the new season in just a matter of weeks. “We had coaches, staff and everything ready to go and we were sourcing players – we were going to bring Todd Carney in,” Lamb said.
“On reflection, it feels like they knew who they wanted all along – it was just lip service saying they were entertaining bids. I’ve never come across an organisation as amateurish in my entire life and this is a sad indictment of a governing body which is out of date and out of touch with how to run a sport. They should hang their heads in shame. They still won’t tell me why our bid wasn’t the winning one, I’ve just been palmed off with talk of how close we came. It doesn’t sit right.
“They asked for no paperwork whatsoever in regards to a fit and proper person’s test and the way fans and players have been kept in the dark is disgusting. I believed they were operating in an open manner but they clearly weren’t.”
