MARK Lawn has revealed he remains keen to acquire ownership of the Bulls after the club entered administration for the third time in five years.

Lawn and Julian Rhodes sold Bradford City to German duo Edin Rahic and Stefan Rupp in May but made bids to buy the Bulls during the club's previous administrations in 2012 and 2014.

Lawn is keen to explore the prospect of a fresh attempt to take over the Championship outfit, who face being docked up to twelve points and losing a raft of players following their latest cash crisis.

Rhodes twice rescued the Bantams from administration, while Lawn joined the club as joint-chairman in 2007 after agreeing to wipe out their remaining debts.

Lawn told the T&A: "Julian and I had a good partnership which worked well at Bradford City and, even if he wasn't interested in the Bulls, I would be.

"I would have to have the backing of the fans but I'm a Bradford lad and I don't want to see any Bradford club go down.

"If I can help, I will and I understand that if I took on the Bulls I would get criticism. Not everyone likes me because I call a spade a spade.

"You need your fans behind you but there just seems to be a disconnect between the fans and the owner at the Bulls.

"You can't go on not paying players, especially in rugby league when you put your body on the line. How are you going to do that if you can't pay your mortgage?

"My late wife was a big Bulls fan and I always said if I could get involved and save them, then I would do."

In May 2013, the Bantams won promotion after six painful years in the bottom division.

Lawn said: "For me, it was never about getting promoted out of the fourth division. It was about not getting thrown out of the Football League and then sustaining a club within the Football League.

"Unless you've got millions and millions – but I know Bradford folk and it won't happen – then that's the way to do it.

"My first thought was to make sure that Bradford City was there for my grandkids' grandkids.

"Yes, I wanted success and am probably the worst loser in the world. But I had to make sure the club survived and then seeing where we went from there.

"Look what we achieved there and Julian and myself never pulled money out of Bradford City. Yes, we got our money back in the end, but that's very unusual in football."

It is understood a number of parties are interested in acquiring control of the Bulls and Lawn expects progress to be slow for any potential new owner.

"You've got to be realistic and say 'right, our goal is to get back into Super League, but it's not going to be easy'," he said.

"At City, I never said we were going to get promotion because then you are going to gamble and risk over-spending.

"As the custodian, you want to hand over a club in a better shape than when you took it. At Bradford City, that's exactly what we did."

Lawn believes the ideal scenario would be for the Odsal site to be redeveloped and a new ground built for the Bulls and City to share.

"Get Bradford Council behind you and develop Odsal – that's what we were thinking about it when we looked at buying the Bulls previously," he explained.

"We would have moved Bradford City up to Odsal on a redeveloped site, without a doubt. It wouldn't have been popular with City fans but I would have been able to put more money into the football and rugby team.

"MK Dons built an infrastructure at their stadium and the council gave them the land to develop it with companies based there.

"Then you build a hotel on the side and keep growing it, so the business thrives regardless of the football and rugby teams."