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Some great memories surfacing here - so you lads who can remember exchanging pleasantries with the ref after "rushing to the steps" -

Can you remember the opponents and the refs name when he was so bad they put him in a directors car (white Triumph 2000) ???

Which then got attacked by fans incensed at his performance.

I can remember Stuart Gallagher being clothes lined and unconscious for a while, to be sent off when they brought him round. The rest is a haze.

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Another here born and bred in Leeds. From the Rodley area. Everyone i knew growing up was into football, there was little interest in RL. And then in 1994 a family friend took me to watch Bradford Northern Vs Workington. I had no idea what was going on, but i enjoyed it. Been going ever since.

Luckily my time at school was linked with the Bulls dominance over the Rhinos in early super league era so i didn't get as much stick as expected.

Strangely the family friend that took me to watch Bradford is now a big Leeds fan. I could never do that.

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Born and bred in Bradford and that is why i love supporting both the Bulls and City

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Isn't it strange that not one of us has a "I used to watch fax but when the bulls came to my school in Hipperholme I swapped" despite the fact that apparently we are "ALL" actually from halifax.

Turns out half of us are from bloody leeds!

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Quite a few from Pudsey, where they have always been an independent minded lot anyway!

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66.6% of active Bradford Bulls moderators are from Leeds. Surely a conspiracy.

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I have a cousin who used to live in Leeds..and I've been through there from time to time....

Just saying icon_eek.gifike

And, using words like "conspiracy" in posts only draws us ever closer to being put on the 'A' list by GCHQ icon_cool.gif

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I was told that I was taken in the pram by my Mum and Dad and the pram was lifted through the door in the big gate opposite the Top House (or Fox and Hounds as it was- not sure if it had the 'Mary Shaws' nickname in 1949). I've been going ever since then apart from a short time in the late 60s and early seventies when I was away in the Sarf at college.
We used to play touch and pass either behind the posts or on the track on Northern's training nights. Does anyone remember Tony the Tiger. an Esso advert which appeared in the back window of supporters buses (before anyone in Cas had thought of being a Tiger) or the male and female cheerleaders who held up boards spelling out NORTHERN?
Supporters nights in the bar which is presently the club offices with parties of Aussie or Kiwi fans and the HAKA on the stage.
Still there and lucky enough to have been involved in various ways since the advent of the Bulls. It's been a toil of a pleasure at times but at the same time a privilege to be involved with so many good people along the way- ok (no pun intended) a few that I'd rather not have come across but some real good people.

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Quote: Behind the posts "I was told that I was taken in the pram by my Mum and Dad and the pram was lifted through the door in the big gate opposite the Top House (or Fox and Hounds as it was- not sure if it had the 'Mary Shaws' nickname in 1949). I've been going ever since then apart from a short time in the late 60s and early seventies when I was away in the Sarf at college.
We used to play touch and pass either behind the posts or on the track on Northern's training nights. Does anyone remember Tony the Tiger. an Esso advert which appeared in the back window of supporters buses (before anyone in Cas had thought of being a Tiger) or the male and female cheerleaders who held up boards spelling out NORTHERN?
Supporters nights in the bar which is presently the club offices with parties of Aussie or Kiwi fans and the HAKA on the stage.
Still there and lucky enough to have been involved in various ways since the advent of the Bulls. It's been a toil of a pleasure at times but at the same time a privilege to be involved with so many good people along the way- ok (no pun intended) a few that I'd rather not have come across but some real good people.'"


Yep - I can share some of those memories - I used to be in the junior supporters club and we played touch and pass with the players of the time - Dave Stockwell always had bags of time for the kids... Of those male & females holding up boards to spell NORTHERN - well one of them is a steward at Bradford City to this day - although I haven't told him I recognise hime icon_biggrin.gif

Ditto the people that all the true and honest supporters really didn't want to come across - there has been some dark dark days over the decades..

Have to say that in my lifetime (and memories) - our current owner is the first to work so hard on building relations with the fan base - its been a long time coming!

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Quote: Bulliac "And, using words like "conspiracy" in posts only draws us ever closer to being put on the 'A' list by GCHQ
What sort of BOMB scamp would try OBAMA to get GCHQ KILL PRESIDENT interested in this forum?

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Quote: Pumpetypump "What sort of BOMB scamp would try OBAMA to get GCHQ KILL PRESIDENT interested in this forum?'"

Think it depends on what kind of PRISM you view all that through. Still, assuming they log on, the stats [and advertising revenues] should go up..

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