partially selective in the fact that they had 2 home fixtures in June as you would expect.
May had a home fixture (Leeds) plus magic weekend plus a challenge cup game
april had 2 home fixtures (including Wigan) plus a challenge cup game
February had 3 home fixtures to offset March

I take your point though. But September to January will be 5 months for players to be paid.

I hope this comes to nothing, but as mentioned earlier their ground did look a little underpopulated on TV. What have their average gates been like this season? I do worry about the prospects for top flight RL, heaven help us if this years World Cup follows a similar financial trajectory to the last one held on these Islands.

I no longer give a crap about them. If they go to the wall and disappear then so be it. They are usually one of the first SL clubs on the scene when other SL clubs are in trouble, either attempting to vote a team out of the comp entirely (eg, London) or asset stripping struggling clubs of their players.


Their home attendances are currently 27.27% down on last season and their current average stands at 8797 compared to 12096 (as compared to the same 10 home fixtures last season).


The sport in this country is in a mess alrighty. We really could do without staging the World Cup this year.

Like you give a crap about anything in this sport, with your endless doomsday scenarios and latest percentage point dips in attendance figures. Jeez, go and follow darts or something you sad, sad lwannabee accountant.

Its pretty hard to argue with much of this , whilst not wanting to see the demise of any club , it is becoming increasingly frustrating for the sport watching the bulls limp from one crisis to another .

Who's this William Eve clown

Dick(sorry i mean William) is a sad man who believes everything was better in a previous life

I hope that the Bulls can not only keep themselves afloat in their troubled times but also again return to the upper echelons of the SL, as IMO the Bulls demise has probably also cost the Rhinos in the region of £100,000 per home game at least each season

I really miss that intense rivalry that both of our clubs thrived on during our derby hey days of the early 2000's and seeing all those large attendances at both grounds

Anyone else miss these big derby matches with big crowds?

It never had the kind of historical weight of a real derby, but from 1999 to 2005 they felt like big games and big occasions. I do miss that. It's just another game to me these days.

They seem to have problems month after month, threads about CCJ’s & winding up orders are nearly as common as talking about the actual game.

Thankfully the decent crowd last week should keep the wolves from the door – for now.

Different perception to me then El , as it has always been a derby game of high intensity to me from my early days , maybe the crowds were bigger in the years you mention,although i'm sure there may have been bigger before my era

You gave a crap when you cashed in with the cheapo season tickets which ultimately led to their administration.

Of course the Bulls stance on London that preceeded this didn't trouble you enough to stop you leaping at the bargain. Always nice to have high moral standards.

The 'Bulls' of today aren't the Bulls of even a year ago in terms of ownership and management. Who knows if the current administration would vote the same way?

Hopefully, and if they do have a more serious problem than they are admitting to at the moment, there won't be any newspaper stories from small independent local businesses who are owed large sums of money by the company due to their own poor financial management, once bitten twice shy and all that.