The Bulls boardroom has not escaped sweeping off-season changes at the club.

Amid a flurry of transfer activity, a change of coach and a bold push on season tickets, the Odsal hierarchy is the latest area to be restructured.

Club stalwarts Colin Tordoff and Jack Bates stepped down as directors in July, bringing to an end their latest spell on the Bradford board, which started in the aftermath of previous chairman Chris Caisley’s departure in 2006.

Stephen Coulby, Ian Illingworth and Rowland Agar have also now resigned their positions on the board to take up newly-created roles as associate directors.

It leaves chairman Peter Hood heading up a three-man board alongside chief executive Ryan Duckett and director Andrew Bennett.

Hood said: “Recent changes to the structure of the board of Bradford Bulls are primarily designed to streamline decision-making and enable those directors who work full-time at the club to operate the business in line with normal corporate and commercial practice.

“Jack Bates, now in his 90th year, and club president Colin Tordoff, who is in his mid-70s and spends a good part of each year out of the country, stepped down from the board in July.

“Stephen Coulby, Ian Illingworth and Rowland Agar all stepped down from the board in August to become associate directors, a newly-created tier of support at Bradford Bulls that may be expanded in future.”

Duckett is a recent appointment to the board, while Bennett joined as a director in December and has been the driving force behind the Pledge 10,000 membership scheme.

Despite giving up his role as director, Coulby will continue to represent the club on the RFL Council, while Agar remains involved with the club’s junior scouting and academy set-up.