Keighley or silsden depending on your level.

Its just to watch a game. Thankyou.

Keighley ARLFC play at Rose Cottage in Utley. They are in the Premier Division of the Pennine League. The head coach is Keith Dixon, the former Keighley Cougars player. Home matches are Saturdays ko 2:30.

Sadly the Bulls Connection came to grief when the Bulls stopped funding the Community side of things and this was passed over to the Bulls Foundation, which then had to fund posts from grants and donations from companies, philanthropists etc. No criticism of the Foundation at all but funding is often directed into certain areas and it becomes harder to do all of the work done by the Bulls Connection. The Foundation does provide coaching support over a wide area and has continued to help amateur clubs in many ways. If you would like help from the Foundation or could offer a source of funding, please contact Gareth Cook, Foundation Manager, via the club.

Slightly OT but does anybody think that their is a correlation between a drop off in the bulls support and lack of clubs for kids to play for in Bradford - especially to the north of the city where RU is a stronghold for kids rugby (Ilkley, Baildon, Otley, Salem, B&B, Keighley, etc...)

I know a few families whose kids used to support the bulls from the north of the city who gave up watching when the kids started playing football as their wasn't a local RL team to play for. I know Keighley Albion exists now but that has only been going a few years.

Compare with Leeds who have clubs all over the city and when you talk to their younger supporters, most are playing at a junior club.

Keighley Albion have been going for over 60 years. Add Worth Village, Silsden, Cowling, West Craven around that area

I think Vic Rangers would class as North Bradford as well

I think you have just backed up my post really well. Out of the clubs you mentioned I could only find West Craven as having any details of a junior set up online. They may have a junior scene but keep it well hidden. Just check out the [urlhttp://www.yorkshirejuniorsarl.co.uk/clubs[/url website and you see a lack of clubs north of Bradford.

Albions juniors have only been running around six years. [urlhttp://www.keighleynews.co.uk/news/2081299.albion_delve_into_junior_rugby_programme/[/url

If children cant keep an active interest in the sport they tend to turn away from it.

I think you'll find most of those amateur clubs are in Keighley Cougars' catchment area, not Bradford's.

Keighley Albion Juniors were previously the successful Keighley Cougar Cubs, going back 20 years.

I remember playing Albion from about under 15s to 18s, we beat them every year in every game we played against them. Same with Keighley Cougar Cubs, who seemed to fold and their lads went on to Albion from about u14s. I'm 29 now. They had some really good players down Keighley way that went on to play with the Cougars a bit. Matt Steele was probably the best, awesome player.

Unfortunately of junior clubs folded in the eighties. This may have been as many only had older age juniors and were reliant on schools to develop players and many schools gave up playing rugby at this time as preference moved to football (with the exception of grammar schools of which north Bradford had a large number hence union clubs survived although some did fold). Other clubs may have folded due to a lack of opposition to play. Even Albion folded.

Since being formed 6 years ago, Albion has gone from a handful of kids with no ground to over 130 and secured a lease on its own ground.

But back to my first point. Does the lack of junior clubs impact on Bulls junior support and through into adulthood?