Johnathon Ford & Dec Patton New Contract

Quote: Bullseye "I'm all for improving the team [iif we can afford it[/i. I think we're of the same opinion there. It's not Ford's playing ability I have a problem with. Are you proposing we sign players we can't afford?

As for 2015 I try not to think about it but us playing most of the season with one halfback and then picking Baille at hooker in the MPG not to mention spaffing thousands on a huge squad of mediocrity and downright crap like Lauaki makes me think that if we'd gone up we were only postponing a further meltdown. I remember Ferres literally telling me it was "poop or bust" and with that attitude running things we'd have ended up stuffed in the end - so not really impossible to say.'"

I don't accept that, the club would have been in SL and therefore a completely different proposition. Wakefield on the point of collapse etc. There's another argument that the club can't afford not to - that there's a danger of losing the ship for ha'peth of tar. FWIW I think that we're on the the right track squad wise, and there is now a foundation upon which to build a title challenge. For all the million pound cap spend, Fev's pack is weaker. Leigh could be anything. There doesn't appear to be an outstanding team primed to go up. In 2019 our attendance was just over 4300ish. I don't know what it was last year but nowhere near that (with obvious mitigating circumstances). The Leeds game shows there's 5k+ would watch a Bradford side genuinely pushing for promotion. In the absence of an investor there's only improving what's on the pitch to bring fans in - and in fairness I think they are doing this.