You've won me over. Shut us down and end your pain.

Bradford has been an important Rugby League city, but you can't claim for the Bulls/Northern another club's history. Even if some of the same people were involved, Northern was a new club in 1907, not a continuation of BPA.

Heh. We've had this. The club agrees with you, but Tony Collins has this to say.

What would Tony Collins know The club have shown themselves to be reliable and trustworthy folk so I go with their version - the discontinuity in entity and home ground are enough for me. Hell, folllow his argument and one could trace the Bradford Bulls' history back to the formation of Halifax RLFC due to the "continuity of supporters" around the 95/96 period

Ha, go post that on that their "SL buy Bulls" rage thread, see if they like it.

Well I would hate to pour water on any discussion that might affect our Future via our past 150 year history.

Our first taste of Rugby in the city of Bradford was QUOTE:"In the winter of 1863 a young gentleman named Oates Ingham, who owned the Lingfield Dyeworks in Thornton Road, Bradford along with some friends and colleagues from Framham college, formed his own football club. The game was a cros between Rugby and Footbal as we know it today. The ball could be caught but if a player ran with it his opponent could repeatedly kick him about the shins until he dropped the ball..The first home game was on Horton Grange cricket ground near to where St Lukes stands today, there followed a nomadic movement culminated to a ground move to Girlington..In 1866 to give the club a better profile Oates Ingham officially named it the Bradford Rugby Club, this was 5 years before the English Rugby Union was formed, In 1874 they moved to a more permanent ground in Apperley Bridge. unquote: Extracts from Bradford Northern the History 1863-1989 by Nigel Williams the official club historian at that time.

So gents if you wish to continue to argue Bradford Rugby Club 1863 (officially named 1866) founder Oates Ingham and eventually to be known as Bradford Bulls, carry on! If we have a club in 2013 I for one will celebrate 150 years of Rugby in Yorkshire courtesy of the Bradford Club.. (if we still have a club to celebrate it with) So COYB and our thanks to Oates Ingham!

You don't get so many kids called Oates these days.

And other clubs in SL that the RFL would quite happily let disappear have no history at all ? Hmmmmmm

Awwww i have come over all nostalgic lets get the violins out. What makes Bradford Bulls think they are bigger than any other club we are all equal or we were until this season. That has been proved by the RFL and SL. This Forum post "What Bradford Bulls have done for RL" what a joke, proved they can pull the wool over the eyes of the rugby league fraternity for 500k and 1.5mil that's what Bradford have done for RL

What about when the RFL bailed Northern out in 1963/64, there are plenty of other Teams that have History.

Who said there wasn't?

Awwww, did somebody's team lose?