There is no doubt that administrators perform an important and vital role when companies and organisations have to be wound up but the amount they charge for the work they do does sometimes seem disproportionate.

That is why when the Telegraph & Argus led the appeal to save Bradford City almost ten years ago, we made it clear that none of the money raised by our readers should go towards administration fees.

And it is why we welcome news of the settlement that has been reached between the administrators, P&A Partnership, who dealt with the fall out when Bradford Bulls collapsed with £1.3m debts last year, and the new owners of the Bulls, which has dramatically reduced the level of administration costs they are facing.

It is also appropriate that the amount of money P&A will receive as part of the creditors agreement relating to the old company, which has now been dissolved, will be £133,225 rather than the £349,051 they originally said they should be paid.

While there is no doubt that the work they do is highly-skilled and deserving of reward, it is neither fair nor right that when money is donated by fans, as was the case for Bulls on this occasion and for City in 2004, that a significant chunk of that should be used to pay administration costs.

These costs can also unnecessarily increase the burden on the new owners, who in the case of the Bradford Bulls are already facing substantial challenges to turn around a club that was on the verge of extinction.

The hugely important task of saving the Bulls and taking the club forward into a new era is proving to be difficult enough without the burden of further costs, which are effectively to pay for failings that occurred before their involvement, being placed before them.