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| The Bradford Bulls board hope that by offering the lowest prices in Super League for the 2011 season will prove a big attraction and help fill the stands at Odsal Stadium.
The average Super League attendance this season at the Grattan Stadium, Odsal has dropped from 9,677 in 2009 to 8,520 this year which means that for the past two years, have been the only seasons since Super League started in 1996 that have seen the Bulls average crowd drop below the 10,000 figure.
This is a bold move for the club, because the McNamara years have done some irreversible damage to supporters appetite for Rugby League in Bradford with some truly terrible on-field performances over the past three years.
But this move from the board allowing Bradford to offer the cheapest season tickets in Super League in 2011, deserves to be given the chance to work.
Because you can't offer the cheapest season tickets in Super League if it's only going to add a few 100 to the core support.
It really needs everyone to come out of the woodwork, from behind the sofa, out of the pubs and return to Odsal to support the Bradford Bulls.
I believe that what Peter Hood and Stuart Duffy have looked at is the Bradford City model which has been a great success for the past four years since it was introduced down at Valley Parade where supporters can get a season ticket for as little as £100 (£6 per game).
Before Bradford City dropped the prices to historic lows the average crowd was just over the 6,000 mark, now it's over 10,000.
The Bradford supporting public have notoriously been the most fickle in the UK, when the going is good it's good, but when it's bad and we must take stock the past two seasons of have been bad by the standards we set in the early days of Super League, so 2011 being 1996 all over again for the Bulls as a club needs some real enterprise shown by the club as this season ticket offer IMO delivers that message to the supporters.
How many other Super League clubs would dream of having a 8250 average crowd, I can think of Castleford, Wakefield, Salford, Harlequins, Catalans and Crusaders RL to just to name six.
So the club already has one of the best supporter bases in Super League for which to work on and I firmly truly believe that once Mick Potter has had the offseason to work with the new players and the existing squad members, that the performances and results will pick up, but more importantly attendances will very quickly pick up such is the fickle nature of the Bradfordian.
2011 is the re-birth of the Bradford Bulls, it's 1996 all over again for me.
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| Quote: Bully_Boxer "Because only the £60 or above pledges count towards the 10k figure.
I can't honestly believe anyone would want a further discount? Surely you're taking the pee?'"
I'm not taking the student rate, i'm happy to be part of the new era and my £60 (already cheap enough!!!) will be helping us reach 10,000
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| Quote: Ewwenorfolk "I'm not taking the student rate, i'm happy to be part of the new era and my £60 (already cheap enough!!!) will be helping us reach 10,000'"
You do what you want with your money.
Had to fork out a tenner today for the away shirt, on the back of free entry! ![Wink icon_wink.gif](images/smilies//icon_wink.gif)
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| Quote: dixie "You do what you want with your money.
Had to fork out a tenner today for the away shirt, on the back of free entry!
It wasn't a dig at you btw! If that's all you can afford, then that's fair enough, I'm sure the club will be glad of your support either way.
Just take note though, you'd be pretty peed off if the club were 1 person short of 10,000 so you had to pay £80 for a student ticket anyway!!
I just urge as many people as possible to sign up - it will be good to run with the Bulls next year (and there'll be alot more of them!!)
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| Quote: Ewwenorfolk "Quote: Ewwenorfolk "You do what you want with your money.
Had to fork out a tenner today for the away shirt, on the back of free entry!
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Hull KR |
20 |
503 |
259 |
244 |
30 |
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Wigan |
19 |
495 |
258 |
237 |
30 |
Warrington |
20 |
502 |
267 |
235 |
28 |
Salford |
20 |
377 |
382 |
-5 |
26 |
St.Helens |
20 |
501 |
262 |
239 |
24 |
Catalans |
20 |
376 |
286 |
90 |
24 |
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Leeds |
20 |
371 |
364 |
7 |
20 |
Leigh |
19 |
392 |
286 |
106 |
19 |
Huddersfield |
20 |
350 |
453 |
-103 |
14 |
Castleford |
20 |
336 |
523 |
-187 |
13 |
Hull FC |
20 |
274 |
612 |
-338 |
6 |
LondonB |
20 |
210 |
735 |
-525 |
4 |
Betfred Championship 2024 ROUND : 1 | | PLD | F | A | DIFF | PTS |
Wakefield |
18 |
626 |
222 |
404 |
34 |
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Sheffield |
18 |
510 |
303 |
207 |
26 |
Toulouse |
17 |
516 |
224 |
292 |
25 |
Widnes |
18 |
434 |
319 |
115 |
23 |
Bradford |
18 |
421 |
321 |
100 |
22 |
Featherstone |
18 |
464 |
375 |
89 |
18 |
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Doncaster |
18 |
338 |
432 |
-94 |
17 |
York |
19 |
446 |
383 |
63 |
16 |
Batley |
18 |
300 |
390 |
-90 |
16 |
Halifax |
18 |
356 |
477 |
-121 |
14 |
Barrow |
17 |
279 |
482 |
-203 |
13 |
Swinton |
18 |
346 |
470 |
-124 |
12 |
Whitehaven |
18 |
348 |
580 |
-232 |
12 |
Dewsbury |
19 |
240 |
602 |
-362 |
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