Using the same ‘Duckworth Lewis’ method, Bradford City will be celebrating their Sesquicentennial in 2030. Manningham, the very first champions of the Northern Union-1895/96, was formed in 1880.

you sure as I cant see them on my shirt nor on the pictures on the website

And some of us complained about completely made up centenaries at the time, especially ones that are more celebrations of the club breaking in two rather than forming.

I'll go with Professor Collins interpretation, but I was happy for any excuse to buy a proper Northern jersey in 2007!

I go along with professor Collins too, but the 2007 shirts (and other merchandise sold at the time) make it a bit difficult to now say the club was actually founded in 1863, at least without appearing to be money grubbing and only looking to another marketing opportunity.

Much as I (and others) may disagree I think, for the sake of credibility, the club has to stick with 1907, even though, as the rugby actually carried on throughout, the only thing which was founded on that date was the Park Avenue soccer club, and which IIRC is the date they recognise (or, at least, the date recognised by the 'old' Park Avenue club.

Completely agree but the club have stuck their neck out and decided for some reason to stick with 1907. If they make an about turn and change their minds it will make to club look rather silly!!!

I'm sure that if it presented a marketing opportunity and a chance to increase revenue the club would be able to put a spin on it.

Well, in terms of rugby heritage, it counts, even if they don't want to use it as a 'club' event. '150 years of rugby in Bradford' , not sure how they wore the old RA&B back in those days, but It sounds OK to me.

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I agree with Bulliac, anything that presents a marketing opportunity should be exploited and '150 years of Rugby in Bradford' sounds like an opportunity to me

A replica of the exact shirt worn back in 1863 would be a great move, perhaps used as a 'third kit' for the season or worn for the match nearest the exact anniversary of the first ever match. In fact, if the club asked far enough in advance, we could probably get a match on the exact date. Who were the opposition? Maybe we could even play the same team (assuming its not Broughton Rangers or Heckmondwike or some other long defunct outfit)

It would also be good to be planning a really comprehensive and wonderfully illustrated club history, by which I mean one that has more than two pages on the first 50 years of the club

And we'll probably be playing at Valley Parade by then, the way things are going, so we could exploit the whole Manningham connection. In fact why not just go the whole hog and present the move to VP as a positive attempt to 'get back to our roots'

I'll put my tin hat on now

Yeah you're probably right Mat. I never liked history at school