Bramley RLCC came together in the early stages as a result of the nature of the demise of the original club. Bramley Action Committee, formed by Steve Crossley, had originally hoped to persuade the existing directors to keep the club going, with increased involvement from the fans in key positions running the club day to day. This meant the operational aspects of the club were planned and the early seeds of getting the community involved were sown.

After a controversial and unsuccessful attempt to rejoin the league, the visible directors of the club walked away, the sleeping director, who owned the club, also showed no interest in keeping the Bramley name alive, so it was left to the fans themselves to dream the dream.

Thus, Bramley Rugby League Community Club was formed and legally incorporated as an Industrial & Provident Mutual Society which fulfilled the fans aim of owning the club themselves as well as the RFLs rules of only accepting Ltd companies as members of the RFL. In simple terms, shares are issued, singly, with a maximum and minimum share purchase, allowing fans, local businesses and groups to own a part share in the club.

The clubs principal aims, as well as community ownership, included rules that meant no one person, or a small group of people could own the club, nor could major decisions be made on the clubs future without consultation with the shareholders/fans. The clubs co-operative model as allowed for links with our first main sponsor. In fact, the Leeds Co-Op paid the clubs first legal bill to allow incorporation.

Fans ownership was the only model to follow after the original club went out of the league. Driven by the injustice of this, but also fuelled by the positive aspects of the new model of ownership, Bramley RLCC became the Buffaloes, following a fans decision, to allow for, and prove, that we are a marketing driven modern dynamic club who just happen to have a different ownership model albeit one shared with another club called Barcelona who you might have seen winning the European Cup this year!