eh, if Cas can claw their way back twice, there's no reason why Bradford can't. The door isn't being shut in your face - it's nice being the "big" club in the small pond for a while.

True, but difference is Cas had were in a legue that perhaps only had one or two teams who paying up to the salary cap and were part time.

This time we and the championship clubs have to beat other SL clubs and a much higher cap.

Bradford have all foundations in place to do it, excellent academy, big fan base, etc but it's going to be tough.

Hand on heart if we don't do it next year I can't see us gaining promotion as the gap of funding for each league increases.

I am glad we have gone down, I find it quite exiting that the bulls can go to challenge what is an underestimated league. It is also good that we can start from afresh and see a new club develop for the future. For me its a weight of the clubs shoulders. I would like to see some young home grown players coming through. All positive for me.

I would think its a certainty that the Bookies will price up the Bulls as short priced favourites - something like :-


4/5 Bulls
2/1 Leigh
3/1 London
4/1 Fev
6/1 Bar

Thats a little presumptious isn't it. Hope you don't think you are too good to be in the championship too. Arrogance is not a pleasant trait despite what Koukash thinks

I've looked and can't find any team called "Early Bath" in the Championship.

In any case any team that doesn't have enough ambition to make SL never will. If they don't think they should be in SL then they never will be. What are you thinking? That we should impress on the players that they are just as bad or no better than the rest of the Championship teams? "You're shiit, and you know you are"?

I'm guessing you're not a sports psychologist.

Not talking about the players. At least all the other clubs will want to knock you off your perch. Take the pressure off Leigh Fev and Fax for a while.

Either way you should finish top shouldn't you

The funny thing is that Bradford really should walk the league, the problem they will have is that most of the good players are already signed up and they are already fighting around for the scraps while teams like Leigh, Fev, and Fax are putting the final touches to their squads.

As i have said in the past ,my team (Cas) have been down twice, hang on in ,a couple of years and you will be back ,look at us, 4th and one game away from Wembley,keep the faith.

The promotion goal posts have changed somewhat since though.

So how do you think the conversation went with Gaskell and Ferguson before they signed up:

Jimmy: sorry guys, theres just a load of scraps around, some 50 year old 10stone props and a half baked half back kid. all the other SL2 teams have signed the rest. we have no plans for getting anybody else in, so you two are going to have to be the forward and the back, or you can play for another SL1 side. So how do you feel about a contract with us?

Ferguson and Gaskell: Yes please!!!!!!

TBH, we've been relegated at probably the best point in the season for it to happen. It's round about this time of year when players are told yes or no that they're getting a new deal with their current club. So there should still be players about looking for 2015.