I've never considered this competition to be like P&R. Winning 'on the field' is very unlikely in any normal sense as the SL club, with more money invested in the team and playing all season at a higher level, has a clear advantage. We were fortunate last season, in as much as with there being no promoted club to pillage all our players, we managed to hold onto a number of SL experienced players, some of them young and with their best years still to come, so I accept we maybe have a slightly better chance than might be available to a future club coming into this situation. There are also many, not necessarily in Bradford who, perhaps unkindly, also say Wakey are there for the taking.

Personally, I'm under no illusions about the game on Saturday. After a year of playing championship football, with referees who insist on playing to the speed of the slowest team, there is no doubt who the favourites are for this competition - and it ain't the Bulls! It is though, a 'one-off' game and anything [ican[/i happen, so let's hope for a good game and all of us leaving as friends!

Wakefield have to start this game as big favourite's. Every SL team, baring Salford has done a job on us in these Qualifiers including Wakefield and theyre at home. I haven't seen anything from Bradford to suggest that we will come away with a win.

Having said that, if the Bulls turn up and play as well as we know they can then they most definitely can win. We've only seen them play like that 3 or 4 times this season. It all depends how they react to the one game that the whole season has been building towards. Will they freeze or will they rise to the challenge like we know they can. I have no bloody idea...

I don't think you can enforce segregation in a stadium that hasn't been designed to be segregated and when you don't know how many away fans have bought tickets. Particularly when that stadium has one big standing area and two smaller terraces.

It has to be "voluntary segregation" with the North Stand acting partly as an overflow stand.

Has ODSAL been designed as a segregated area?

Every year I have been,we have respected that the vocal bulls support is behind the dugouts and have stood,(like every other away fan) behind the sicks,(with a shocking view).

Should you bring 3K support,they will easy fit in the western/north west terrace.As been the case with cas/rhinos.

Sorry just need to pull you up on this.

We have played in Superleague when Hull KR and Huddersfield fans have tended to stand down that side without any issues.

We've played pretty much every home game with the end shut without any issues.

There are no shocking views in the ground. It's totally unrestricted and you can see the whole pitch.

Tbf he said he stood behind the sicks. If their fans had understandably all vomited in a big pile, it is bound to restrict the view

So are you saying away fans generally stand behind the sticks?

Prior to the game you refer to did the Bulls fans bang on and on that you MUST stand behind the sticks or did you just assume this? A ticket into Odsal is for ground admission the same as Wakefield. Nobody has told away fans to stand in any particular area. The away fans have chosen to make that area their own and most grounds away end is also behind the goal.

I personally upon arrival at Belle Vue would just stand where the stewards tell me and/or due to what I've read on here on the Western Terrace.

Given how sensitive the Wakefield fans appear to be about where we stand. It's all getting really childish it's not football in the 80's with people trying to take their end and I'd rather the talk was about the match not this small minded rubbish.

I think the majority of Bulls fans will do likewise but as my wife is vertically challenged,if she is not able to see the game we will find an alternative spot where she can see, simple.

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Actually Odsal [i:2pcl7hajwas[/i seem to congregate on the Touchdown Bar side of the pop terrace. All the terracing at Odsal is deep enough for anyone, who is near average height, to see all the touch and dead ball lines from anywhere in the ground, which is not something you cans say about many standing areas.

You'll be lucky on the West terrace, unless you get right up to the fence at the front and then you'll be a boot height, which isn't my favourite position to watch a game. The more folk crammed in the worse is the view - I'm pretty much average for a bloke, just over 5'10", or so but I'm lucky to see half the field from that vantage point. Behind the posts is better, but you can't see anything over the goal line even there. Wonder if they'll have big screen, with it being like a final?

I'm not aware of the club ever trying to enforce segregation at Odsal.

Have you lot sold your allocation yet? Better get in quick if so.

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We had around 500 of our 2500 allocation earlier this afternoon. Whats the capacity for Saturday?

Ive just bought mine from Wakefield. E tickets? What's that all about?

These new fangled modern ideas....

A fraction under 8K.

Just wanted to wish all you Bulls fans & the club all the very best of luck for big one v Wakey.

Those of you who have visited our board or seen my rare posts here will know that your lot are the ones I feared the most since Round 1 of the regular season & so it has come to be.

FWIW, I believe that SL will be stronger with Bradford inside rather than out, Wakefield have made up the numbers for far too long.
Who wants a team with very few home supporters & no ambition ? Better they are replaced by you lot now than prolong the agony.

You have been the better team when it counts, rather than a 'different' team when it counts like that lot.

So go forth, grasp the opportunity Bulls & never look back.

Hope to see you soon in Super Dooper League.

Cannot wait

According to Telegraph and Argus we have a full squad to choose from .....is that first time this season. Wakey will not pick Locke or Smith ..... Anderson out, and maybe Lee Smith.
Could we have a better opportunity....... have the fates conspired.
I can't imagine that any Super League will back themselves so far into a corner in a future season.

This has got to be it, as Peter Quincy Taggart once said, "Never give up, Never surrender"

Wont have a better chance and next year will be harder

If we don't get promoted i don't think we will even make the MPG next year. Whatever you say about Beaumont, he has splashed the cash next year on some quality recruitment's. Leigh as a club, players, staff and coaches learnt some very harsh lessons in the eights which will make them stronger for next year.

If Wakey win, they will be stronger financially and will improve. They won't have a disastrous campaign as bad as this one.

If we get promoted though, we should be fine. If you think what Marc Green and Steve Ferres have done with a championship budget and SC, imagine what they can do with an SL budget/SC.

Wakey i think if relegated will fall away completely.

The stakes could not be higher.

We seem to have finally had a bit of luck with our injuries at the most crucial point of the season. Anderson would be a big blow for Wakey. Very underrated prop.

BELL

Best of luck from a Wigan fan. When I first started watching in 2001, Bradford were incredibly daunting with class throughout the side, including Vainikolo, Fielden and Peacock who I’m sure most would pick in an all-time Super League dream team. If we were on form the games against you were classics which could go either way. If we weren’t then we got thrashed, don’t think there was ever a match were you guys didn’t at least put up a good challenge, and my first two grand finals were losses to you in ’01 and ’03.

Whilst we can’t expect to see those days back, I’d still much rather have you in the league than Wakefield, who have done bugger all in the same period of time. I can remember one good play-off match against them and the rest just blur together in a list of forgettable games.

Thank you Grimmy