Might be misremembering here but didn't Fax once bump up the prices for the away fans when the Bulls came to town in early-ish Super League?

Yes they did and banned ticker-tape IIRC.

Well just go to the Shay, then. You'll not be that much further from the pitch, you'll save a few bob, and we'll be spared your whingeing.

You can't really complain about Odsal prices then can you? It's only £8 more expensive but at least there's a game on at Odsal!

What is wrong with your math Fax machine> If you get a ticket concession it's £20 plus £5 if you want a seat in the stand. At FAX you pay £17 to stand and £20 to sit so that would be £3 or £5 more. How do you get £8???
You don't hear us complaining that we have to pay less to go in your ground ,do you?

Plenty of complaining about the Bulls ticket prices from away fans. They are expensive but I wouldn't have an issue paying it once a year. Every other week starts to sting a bit but nobody is forcing me to pay it.

Can't imagine why but they don't seem too happy to pay for our full-time team...maybe they should ask their own management to do something similar?

Having been done over for this game I think every club in the championship should increase their prices when the Bulls come.

I have also had to pay £5 for my granddaughter to sit with us. She has a junior season ticket which gets her to every away game, free of charge, but not if they want to sit at Odsal. Bradford junior season ticket holders will be able to go to EVERY away game free of charge.

To charge £27 for an on the gate price, to sit, only serves to put off the casual support.

You're right, all the best turns in entertainment cost a premium, but I'm not sure it would go down well with all their own fans.

So stand with her! You save your fiver and your own stand admission. She CAN get in free of charge. It isn't compulsory to go in the stand, that's your choice.

Really? And how do you know that then? Come on, tell us, seeing as you presumably have the "magic number" which does NOT "serve to put off the casual support", yet keeps the club in the black? What is it? £25? £22.47? How did you work out the "casual put-off" level?

It would be interesting to know what size sample of "casual support" you researched and analysed as then we could say "Well, spanishbob has crunched the numbers, and if we charge £24.82, it will put off 279 casual supporters, but if we reduce it by a penny to £24.81, they will not be put off and will all pay." Just by announcing your groundbreaking conclusion you could instantly fill all rugby grounds. You owe it to the world.

Ok, here we go.

1. The price increase is a flippant statement, as it would never happen, again.

2. I can't stand, therefore I can't expect my granddaughter to stand on her own. Bulls junior season ticket holders can go to ANY other away game and sit or stand anywhere in any stadium for NO charge, but any visiting junior season ticket holders that wish to sit have to pay. Not really in the spirit of the championship agreement.

3. I haven't done any figures, but I do live in Bradford and I do work in Bradford and I have many friends and colleagues who are Bulls fans. I know several who are casual supporters, who decide to go on the day based on lots of factors and it is THEY who say they will not pay the price.

I myself have been a casual supporter over the last 5/6 years when our games didn't clash, but this definitely won't happen this year


I don't profess to know all answers to everything, but I do know that the Bulls believe themselves to be above everyone else in the championship (I was told as much by someone from the offices) but the proof of the pudding will be the Bulls pricing next season if they are still in the championship.

Weird. I had assumed that the Bulls would only hire shrinking violets with inferiority complexes.

But you say you definitely won't be casually rolling up this year, yet refuse to divulge what price would have changed your mind. And you don't say what price level would bring your apocryphal mates through the turnstiles.

The whole point for us of this year is to get what we pay for and pay for what we get. Your comment about next season is just wrong, we have set our stall out to pay for full-time etc. in an effort to regain SL and we have done the gate pricing in that light. If we don't get promoted then next year's pricing would prove absolutely nothing about this year's pricing, and will (obviously) depend entirely on whether the club wants to continue throwing the same amount of money at promotion challenges.

If the Bulls were to reduce the admission price, would other clubs object if we went round with the begging bowl when our cash runs out again