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Interest in the Bulls is at a seriously low ebb, and the new owners cant win at the fans forum either, even if they're positive we wont believe any of what they say until we see actual action. As fans I think we've finally reached our limit for hearing just hot air.

The game as a whole is struggling, and the sooner we return to a simpler format the better, but my worry is that its not the format at fault, just that not enough people like the on field product. Take a look at some of the attendances from the last two weeks;

Batley – Swinton =544
Bradford – Toulouse =2753
Dewsbury – Rochdale =629
Sheffield – Oldham =305
(Salford – Cas =2811)
(London – Fev =926)
Dewsbury – Toulouse =628
Oldham – Bradford =853
Rochdale – Batley =453
Swinton – Sheffield =434
(Halifax – Widnes =2291)

Wigan, Hull, Wire, Saints and Hull KR all managed decent crowds, but there are lots of clubs it seems where interest is really low, especially for these short notice scheduled games, even if the team is doing really well and pushing for success like fax and Salford. Our crowds could recover given some positivity and being seen to compete and looking to climb back up the league structure (frankly Im surprised ours was so high against Toulouse considering everything) but it will be a long slog. Attendance is a habit when its not about following a winning team (which we've not been for quite some years now) and we have lots of fans who are failing out of the habit or each person has slowly found their limit of suffering/taking a kicking from the game.

I'm not sure how some of these clubs survive on numbers like that, but there still a lot higher than some of the 150 type crowds some of our new friends in League 1 achieve. Depressing, but Im sure Nige and the RFL have it all in hand....

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Quote: Duckman " Im sure Nige and the RFL have it all in hand....'"


Only thing in his hand's a growler...

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Quote: Bullseye "Too many amateurs are running clubs. The people with the expertise are in other sports. Basic professionalism and attention to detail is absent.

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Speaking of amateurs, just seen an extract from Keighley's programme. Jeez no wonder the games on it's icon_ass.gif


There's an extract that says "Bulls are relegated, love the Cougars xx" I mean WTF! This is an official programme. Yes the low IQ twitter users love it, great banter man and all that. But imagine being head of a company thinking of investing and seeing that. You would walk away instantly as you would be thinking your sponsoring a fans banter page, not an official club.

It's not just Keighley. Rochdales twitter is clearly a fan behind it. Just unprofessional. Then you get ours with spelling mistake after spelling mistake. I mean the latest one wasn't even a typo. The headline was "Toovey APPLAUSES Bulls fans"

The stuff we use to see on banter pages, forums and just general ribbing between opposition fans, has now found it's way on to official programmes, twitter accounts etc. It's embarrassing.

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saw 2 fans in bulls shirts at the shay :O

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Typical Cougars small time chip on the shoulder type "bantz".

Usually the preserve of Fax fans ain't that right hooligan27?

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Quote: Bull Mania "Speaking of amateurs, just seen an extract from Keighley's programme. Jeez no wonder the games on it's
If you've ever seen Keighley's "Head of Operations" on Twitter, it's not all that surprising. Professional certainly isn't the word.

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Oh, RL isn't [ithat[/i bad really, just check the announcements from the president of the United States - can't even string a coherent sentence together, seems to get around half way through and then has to take break as his head is hurting.

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Next RFL Chief Exec after Nigel?

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Quote: Bullseye "Next RFL Chief Exec after Nigel?'"


So fire and fury coming our way for our next punishment... still be their pets though.

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Quote: Bullseye "Next RFL Chief Exec after Nigel?'"


"I'm going to build a wall just to the south of the M62.... and the French and the Canadians are going to pay for it"

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Quote: hooligan27 "saw 2 fans in bulls shirts at the shay


Just trying to help out the little clubs

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Quote: HamsterChops "If you've ever seen Keighley's "Head of Operations" on Twitter, it's not all that surprising. Professional certainly isn't the word.'"

Get ready for a whole new level of unprofessionalism (is that a word?) in League 1. Only a few weeks ago, I saw a photo of the Hunslet players (What happened to our dual reg agreement with them?) at training. They were playing football with cans of lager in their hands!

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Quote: beefy1 "Get ready for a whole new level of unprofessionalism (is that a word?) in League 1. Only a few weeks ago, I saw a photo of the Hunslet players (What happened to our dual reg agreement with them?) at training. They were playing football with cans of lager in their hands!'"

The best way to check is to see if we have used it in a press release or tweet. Personally I applauses our komunication with fans compaired to other clubz.

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It's all part of ruby culture.

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Quote: Bullseye "Typical Cougars small time chip on the shoulder type "bantz".

Usually the preserve of Fax fans ain't that right hooligan27?'"

Doesn't matter how many divisions we drop we can always find someone that hates us. In fact it's the teams with chips on their shoulders that are more interested in us than we are.

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