Quote: Bulliac "To be honest it's not really like 1964.
In '64 we didn't start on -12 points for a start, and there [iwas[/i only the one division, so we knew we were on the bottom; it was, purely, a time of hope, and, since we couldn't go any lower, we had the certainty that the only way [ireally was[/i up. Basically, we, "didn't own a bootlace", as was famously said at the time, but we knew we could look forward to things slowly getting better from that point onwards.
As distinct from now. We're not at the bottom, we're still in the middle tier and, with our points deficit, we're still looking downwards, very clearly into the abyss. There is as much fear of dropping even further down, as there is hope. That is what I hate about right now - the RFL have robbed us of hope and I can't forgive them for that.'"
In 1964 there were no full time clubs - so even though we started bottom - we were in the same bucket as all the other fish. We are now in bucket 2 of 3 and likely to end up in bucket 3. Jumping between buckets is far harder than jostling for a place in the one we all shared at the time.
In summary - todays structure makes comparing now to '64 a meaningless measure - unfortunately.
The RFL are coming under a lot of scrutiny at the moment and rightly so - the Joe Cobb thing proves again that they only brush things under the carpet and keep quiet.
