You've got a point with the top 6 but 10 years ago we had the "Big 4" and no-one else generally got a look in so there has been some improvement there in the competition. In those days it was unthinkable for a side to win it from 5th...

This is a GREAT discussion, no really.

I thought the topic was Chris Bridges forearm smash ( as it would be called in wrestling terms ) on Jeffries.

Anyway, as you say, as the season wears on and our injured players come back and those that have just come back get up to match sharpness so we have a fully up to speed pack and set of backs, the pitch dries out so players such as Sammut and our two NRL centres who are used to dry conditions all can show their running skills, and a much changed squad and in particular new half backs and those NRL centres (who still havent played together yet) finally has time to gel, yes, we are looking forward to being a better team. Did Warrington suddenly start winning trophies overnight? So yes you are being patronising, because this team has played nowhere near its best yet.

If our early 2000 sides were the blueprint, you're still some way off getting there.

You haven't even won SL yet, whereas we had a treble winning team. We might have fallen from a great height, but it was from a height that you aren't close to reaching yet.

Ahh, bless there little cotton socks, one hub cap and they think they are the greatest team ever to grace super league, let's deal with facts here, saints Have proven to be the best team in super league closely followed by Leeds then us an Wigan, wire have a long way to go before they can be mentioned in the same breath as those four teams

You can't argue with Bradford's record, they have won those trophies and their fans have enjoyed those good times.

But I would rather be where we are now. I am sure back in 1997 if messageboards were around then you could have got some Wigan fans saying LOL look at these Bulls fans thinking their team is special, what have you won, nothing, just got to two major finals and bottled it, come back when you have won everything like Wigan. But I bet the Bradford fans enjoyed the following years more than Wigan fans did.

Bradford at the moment are miles away from winning trophies, however much they try to do down where Warrington are now, their fans would love the Bulls to be where Warrington are top of the league playing the rugby we do. Whether we win as many trophies as Bradford did between 1997-2005 who knows but we have got more chance of winning things in the upcoming years than Bradford do.

The danger for Bradford fans now is that the fairly recent happy memories will have nothing more added to them, so will just start to slip further back, as it has for the Widnes fans who have been having to cling to their 1980s glories for two barren decades now.

Having watched it again, it's a bad challenge. He has no intention of going for the ball, regardless of what some blinkered Wire fans think they see. Awful. I would be shocked with anything less than 2 matches.

Has the incident actually been placed on report?

No. Not as far as I know.
Does it matter?

Don't let common sense stand in the way of their Liverpool-style reminiscing, Sally.....As you say, while we are nowhere near acheiving what they did just yet, its highly apparent that they and us are heading in slightly different directions at present.

But as long as you have memories of 10 years ago, then what does that matter?...

Well unless it was put on report or the RFL call him in the conjecture is pretty pointless.