Are you referring to "Having budgeted for a crowd of 16,000" from the article? If so, I read that as being a possible attendance for the Bradford-Leeds derby this Friday rather than for several other Bradford crowds.

Thats correct, budgeted for 16,000 for the Leeds good Friday game, not any other game. Which it now looks like we'll exceed comfortably. They are clarifiying that any cash from attendance over the budgeted for income (16,000) will go towards the pledge as they had said previously that the Leeds attendance cash would not aid the pledge.



...tell me about it...

Yes, sorry - with it now.

Enjoyed reading a thread on Facebook with fans turning on others because they hadn't donated to the cause.

Do people still really believe that there will be no rugby league played in Bradford if they don't raise the £500k/£1m/£whatever the total is this week? Businesses owning sports clubs the size of Bradford have gone to the wall before and, miraculously, another company comes along and the club still keeps going. Why would it be different in this case?

As I said earlier, no chance of Bradford Bulls (or a team called Bradford playing Odsal) not being in SL next year.

rlhttp://www.engagesuperleague.co.uk/article/caisley-prepared-to-come-to-bulls-aid/24774rl

Whats the Bulls fans feeling on this?

Maybe that's why the guilt trip put on people for not pledging is something I find frankly an utter disgrace.

I was at Belle Vue back in 2001 when Wakefield somehow stayed up, when the Chairman and his cronies begged us for money or the club would cease to exist, when the coach at the time (John Harbin, great orator) begged us for funds to keep the great players coming through (before he left for Dewsbury weeks later) and even that club managed to keep going despite having a crap ground, low support and a bloody awful squad at that point.

I sat through page upon page on forums of people saying how they were better because they could afford to, or were so blinded by 'loyalty' that they chose to donate thousands of pounds to keep a failing business, and those who put it there in the first place, afloat.

Forgive me for thinking that Bradford will still be around, whether £500k is found or not.

It's third of my four possible outcomes, ever so slightly higher than oblivion.

I've said this elsewhere but I think it's all a scam

They can and will stay afloat, pledges or not. What they are trying to do is guilt trip everyone into paying off the huge historic debt, leaving them free and unencumbered and in an awesome position to retake the summit of Superleague...

from the BBC

That's because you have wonderful backing from the Royal Bank of RFL.

Maybe that's why they asked the day before a bank holiday which itself is the day before Hood has to make a decision.

Bradford MP and former Sports Minister Gerry Sutcliffe added: "Bradford has had a rugby league club in various guises since the formation of the Northern Union was formed. We cannot let it die with the stroke of a pen."


Yes but Bradford Northern (1964) Ltd has only been around since, at a guess, 1964 and if it goes tits up there's not a shadow of a doubt that a new club will replace it.