Yeap a derby between two avarage side's

Lucky for you that in a year or so you'll be able to watch it twice a season...

A great derby should still be a big game when both sides are average. Leeds v Bradford has become a bit mundane now. It's always a tougher game than it should be, like Cas away, but it doesn't really excite me. In the 2003 - 2005 era it did, because both sides were contesting the big pots, but not now. Hull v Hull KR and Saints v Wigan are bigger derbies for derbies' sake. Leeds v Saints has probably developed into the number 1 needle match over the last few years, purely because of what has tended to be at stake in those games recently.

But suppose Fev win a franchise?

I'm sure it won't be long before Halifax are playing Bulls again....and it won't be in Super League!!

A s poor pathetic [size6940[/size fans have pledged to buy a season ticket for £60

Leeds have some of the highest priced tickets in the league, yet will comfortably pass that figure. Reckon Leeds, capacity allowing, would attract 25,000+ pledges for a £60 ticket.

Bradford are going 1 way, and that is down. Crap ground. Crap fans. Crap players.

Halifax can take their place. That would be ironic!!!

Do you think Wakey council could afford three super duper stadiums within 2 miles of each other?
Personally i hope they do get a franchise at the expense of our country bumpkin cousins!

From a fans point of view.. If HKR played any other team the Hull fans would be cheering the other team on to win ..I am lucky a Hull fan lives next door ..Now if it had been a Rovers fan I would have put my house up for sale ..We just don't like each other .."The saying is You are a Hull fan or a Rovers fan NO in between" The next few months we have to put up with the smart Ar-- taking the pi-- ..There is no getting away from it ..That what a Derby mean in Hull

As far as "local" derby matches go its always been my opinion that us and Cas was a bigger game than us and the Bulls. Even in all the hype at the end/turn of the century.

Only in Wakefield and the 5 tarns th'knoz owd cock

No. No it isn't.



Based on?

Their 76 fans and large financial problems. That's how the Quins got in!

Hull FC v Hull KR

Nah, you're higher than 3rd

Been to several Leeds v Bradford games when both were outstanding teams with huge support (1999 era) and many Hull derbies since our promotion. Absolutely no comparison in terms of atmosphere, the Hull derby just has so much more meaning, more passion, divided families, friends etc, it has everything IMO.

Leeds v Bradford is good, and I'm sure Wigan v Saints is intense, but for me the Hull derby is the best in SL. If Sky had to choose the Leeds/Bulls or Hull derby to show every season I'm certain we'd be kept.