Can anyone think of anything in the past twenty years that has been a better good news story for Bradford than the achievments of the Bulls. Thankyou for your support Bradford Council. £24 million for a crappy puddle but nothing for the only good thing ever to happen here.

Why should the council support a private business? Why shouldn't the council invest in the city centre to stimulate interest & investment. By my daily reports the area around the pool is buzzing.

Good question - spent days thinking about, best answer I came up with is that the Bulls have been like my second passion - outside of my family I get more emotional about the Bulls than anything else - and I've seen that others feel the same. Best memories:-

Dewsbury Semi Final win 1973 - David Treasure!
St Helens - 1992 - Dave Watson's 1st game
Leeds semi final 1996 - still brings me out in goose bumps
Sheffield 1997 - to clinch the title - still see my kids faces as they went on the pitch
Murrayfield 2000 - the best!
Old Trafford - 2001 - not far behind

And I still have an ambition for my team - see us lift the Challenge Cup at Wembley!!!

That's why MY team is worth saving!!!!!

Because they are a team that has won things, one of the strongest sides in Yorkshire in previous years.

Superleague would not be the same without Bradford, when I've come to Odsal i've always enjoyed the visit.

Bradford brings back memories to me when I was 13. I played for East Hull, and we had big les, michael withers, lyon price, and a few other bradford players at our end of season party handing out our trophies, I got most improved player of the year at the embassy hotel, and it was big les that gave me it, still got the photos of me with pryce, withers & big les, they towered me at the time!

Bradford needs rugby, rugby needs Bradford, can't Imagine what you supporters are going through, if it was hull f.c in the same position I would be gutted.

Good luck to you.

What a super post.

Because they are like family. We have had some of the most fantastic family times over the 20 years we have supported them. The thought of no Bulls has left all of us close to tears this week. COYB

And you have to admit, Sunday afternoons or Friday nights without being able to liken the officials to pieces of sanitary porcelain or large root vegetables would really not be the same?

I count you as one of the nice blokes I have met along the way. I love the "community" we share with all who sit around us and I am sure that this is repeated all around the ground. I would miss this nearly as much as the rugby, I hope we can sort it out.

And likwise.

If we all do our best, we will.

28 years I've followed northern/bulls man and boy, all I can say is we don't do things by halfs! There always seems to be some sort of drama down odsal, but it's never been dull! I can't imagine my life without this great club in it!

Just to quote from one of greatest coaches of all time Peter fox from his book:-

One September morning Peter stud on the field and looked all around the vast odsal bowl. As the scale of his surroundings sunk in, Peter could hardly believe his good fortune: "i was coach of a club that had once had one of the best teams I had ever seen, the northern team of the 40's and 50's, I was also coach of a club that possessed one of the most charismatic names in rugby league - Bradford Northern!"


We have a long and proud history that's why this club can't be lost!!!

My best memories:

2000 season : 96-16 vs salford still biggest winning victory in SL history
SL final Old Trafford 2002: 18-19 Saints drop goal stole it
SL final Old Trafford 2003: 25-12 Beat Wigan with class
SL final Old Trafford 2005: 15-6 vs Leeds we did it the hard way all the way through, 1st team to win GF after finishing outside the top 2
2007 play off: 30-31 how did we lose it, HOW!
2010 season: 22-20 vs wigan, awesome from 0-20 at HT Orford was immense in that game

All strange our highest attendance was againts leeds at 24k and our lowest was against leeds 10k, we have to break 25k this friday show that the bulls are still a force with a following that deserves them to be great once more.

Average of £15 a ticket with 25k people attending, means we should make £375k on tickets alone, just speculation on my part

What will i do with my collection of northern/bulls shirts going back to mid 80s that i have aquired

The week immediately after that game was incredible. The build up to the PSG home game where we lifted the Super League trophy in front of 17,000+ Bradford fans will never leave me. I do believe we won 68-0 that night as well.

Would have been even more but we missed 8 conversions too.

Paris did send their second team though - IIRC none of their Aussies made the trip, even though we played some mocking Aussie music when the their team ran out.