Agreed



Yes, I'll be looking at this for next year now....I hadnt even realised under 12's were free this season, I was ready to hand over some notes at the turnstiles when they told me they where free to get in! Excellent, and then club got sales of 2 replica tops, 2 baseball caps and some sweets! Everyones happy....apart maybe from their cas supporting mum, but shes happy enough with the Wembley trip on Sat anyway! (My 9yr old is going with us to Wembley but she'll now be wearing her new Bulls kit along with me )

I first took my son when he came home from his Primary School with a free ticket - given out by Joe Vagana!

I think he was about 7 at the time. He's 23 now and still goes - an adult season ticket holder who sits next to me in the main stand!

We really need to get back to that kind of thing.

Spot on.

I'm certainly no Peter Deakin, but one technique used was to get families with youngsters in, and then make it feel like a must-go for these youngsters. Bull Man's Parade, and all the rest. Big Joe (imagine what size HE looked to a 7 year old) handing out tickets. Party atmosphere. The kids loved it, they brought their parents of necessity, and everyone had a good time. That was I think the bare bones of it. - everyone sort of was made to feel part of a happy family.

I think that's right. It was a fun time, a happy time and a Bulls' match was a great place to be, even if we lost... For sure, success on the field helped - didn't it just, but it was always much more than just that. I know only too well that we've all been ground down with recent events over the last few years, but there are, at last, definite signs of an upward swing; the new owners; the plans for the future; the new signings et al. We're moving in the right direction and the mood around the place has had a significant improvement, can we reach that target and go back to the future?

Agree there Bulliac - still some more signings needed to complete the squad, but it looks like it's being worked on behind the scenes. So looking forward to next year hopefully:

No financial crisis hanging over the club
A decent sized squad
Jimmy getting the pride back in the shirt and full effort from the players
More wins
Some traditional Yorkshire derbies to look forward to - Fax and Fev
Some long weekends in Cumbria - cheaper than France or London

For me we hit the bottom a few months ago and are now starting to climb back - so if these things cannot bring some of the smiles back to the fans faces not sure what will - maybe beating the Rhinos in next years CC Final

To be honest NR, I loved the weekends in France and I'm sort of hoping they'll be down the bottom end and we can play them again over there next year - may well go again anyway, match or no match!

For the local derbies though, I think, if we can take a decent support on these matches, with many of them being on much smaller grounds than we've been used to in SL, not to mention crowds being generally thinner on the ground, we may well make up a good proportion of the total gate and create a really good atmosphere at quite a few of them - with a good run on the field it could be a bit like that season in the seventies, when we won promotion - and hopefully, at the end of it, who knows, with a bit of luck?

I must admit I don't get to many away games now, but we still seem to take a reasonable away following even by SL standards. So I am sure for many of the teams we will be playing next year getting a 1000 or so Bulls fans through the gate will be good extra income from them - say £20k. Seem to have gone off topic, but there are still more positive things around our sport than a handful of nutters

I thought RL didn't exist in the world of eurnosport. Oh sorry, it was a negative news item.