Robbie Hunter-Paul has left his position at the Bulls. Confirmed by League Express and League Weekly.

Best of luck in the future.

I think that this was going to be the likely outcome, but I expected the announcement to come after the season end.

In one way, this could be looked at as clearing the decks with both Ferres and now Robbie gone there's opening for a new owner to bring in their own people for those jobs.

Or it could all just be another helping of bad luck that's followed the club around for these last years

I can't help but feel sad about it. Robbie leaving, much as it was obvioulsy half -expected, is definitely the end of an era for me and it just seems indicative of everything, the whole set of circumstances, surrounding the club at the moment.

I can accept that Robbie and Steve Ferres leaving is a clearing of the decks for some, potential, unannounced, unknown new owner but, right now, Robbie's leaving just gives me an empty feeling in my stomach and a big, 'what else is hanging over us', feeling.

It does rather feel like a clearing of the decks

I guess that we'll find out a bit more about future plans in a couple of days when we'll see if the players get paid on time (and by whom?). It's a bit of shame that we long-suffering fans have to rely of assumptions made on absolutely no information, but the lack of transparency from the top is the reason for that.

So much for the transparency that Marc Green trumpeted when he took over...

Statement from the club:

Hearing that you're in deep doo dah. Hope the new owner comes to fruition.

Good luck Robbie, and congrats on the new arrival.

It does now seem something else may be afoot, if this tweet from Jarrod Sammut this morning is to be believed. Are they not getting paid again perhaps?

I am getting really pi$sed off with all this speculation, where is it getting anyone? The known facts start and pretty much end with the fact that we contrived to snatch total disaster from the jaws of survival, by being embarrassed by Fev. There's the one thing, right there, plain as the nose on your face.

OBVIOUSLY things are bloody tight wit the biggest squad in world sport, full-time, on 4K crowds but we stumbled on and had we won that game we would have been (relatively) fine for the time being.

The fact we lost is was, as I have written many times, but seems the penny hasn't dropped with some, just a financial disaster, a Cruise missile into the cashflow. Stop right there: a financial D*I*S*A*S*T*E*R

Not only a disaster fro next year, but also killing the golden geese of playoff games at home against in particular the Rhinos, and of course the revenue of the MPG itself had we got to that. Instead - well, you know the fixtures.

I don't care what you say, Green MUST have budgeted for being in the playoffs, as what choice would he have? It is all very well saying "but you need a plan B if not" - except that plan B could only ever involve mass sackings, going part-time, and giving up all hope. Unless you had the odd million to spare.

And so, we all sat back to see what would happen, but I, for one, not seeing a way out. Since then, the indicators of the state of the club include:
a) we had an HMRC winding up to contend with
b) the wages were paid late.
c) Ferres falls on his sword (and now Robbie leaves)

So anyone who wants a "statement" seems to me to be slow on the uptake.

Unfortunately not all of us are happy with our own assertions, Inspector Aardvark, and prefer the club to at least give an inclination of the position we're currently in amid the uncertainty.

Well, whilst it is obvious we have crashed, headfirst, into a major short term cashflow problem, I do have some hope in that all our medium( signing players for next year) and long (youth setup) term plans are all still going ahead. We need cash.

What good is a statement from the club like the last one delivered by Mr Green only to find a day later that a winding up petition is posted against the club, wages were paid late, and the person he defended has walked out since? They are damned if they do and damned if they don't at the moment.

What fans want is an HONEST and ACCURATE statement about what the situation is and what is happening behind the scenes.

The last statement by Marc Green was neither honest nor accurate - in fact, it sounded very much like the words of somebody who had spat the dummy out because his precious holiday had been disturbed. To blame the fans because they don't buy their drinks inside the ground, how petty was that?

All the fans want is openness and honesty. It is no shame to admit you are struggling. But to insist everything is A-OK when the situation is clearly far from it, only makes fans feel they are being treated as mugs and that the management has no respect for it's paying customers.

If you can't be bothered to explain to those concerned what is really going on, then you have no right to complain at any gossip / Chinese whispers / call it what you will, that arises as a result of people having to guess based on the scraps that they are fed.