It's not really that you won nothing, you were beyond terrible. The basic and most important reason you are in this league at all is because someone gave you access to a stadium, and the game wanted the stadium. Didn't work at first, under promotion and relegation you were up and down every other year. With licensing there was time to plan, and you're the biggest beneficiaries of it by far.

Now the stadium's broke and it looks like kids playing a pre-match game five hours before the real kick off.



Maybe, but if you're looking for ways to blame the success of others for your clubs abject failings in getting any interest then you're looking for ways to divert attention from the issue. The success of others is not the reason you have failed. There is not a finite amount of local interest who just keep moving about according to the whim of the day. Some do, and often were told that people from Halifax or Huddersfield are seen with Bradford and Leeds stickers in their cars. Because people don't move at all, and so we have all the evidence we need there. It's definitely why Huddersfield get 5k instead of 12 or 13.

Compare Huddersfield's crowds like for like with Bradford's for 2013, your banner year. You finished top of the league that year. You have won something. And in all but the barest of cases, the ones that relied on big clubs that were playing rivals (but far ahead in every other respect) who had fans willing to turn out to see a decent game, mid-crisis Bradford were getting bigger crowds to a hole in the ground.

Ok mate, I must be deluded. Looking at the present we're still in the play offs and finished 3rd in the league. Granted Leeds win their first challenge Cup for quite a few years, finished out of the top 4 and are out of the play offs. Yes you are a much greater club than us and we live in your shadows. How does the rest of West Yorkshire even dare compete with the mighty Leeds.

I read the first part of your comment and didn't carry on due to all the flaws and incorrect comments you've said. Get your facts right before spouting on here.

I don't support, or even particularly like Leeds.

Unlucky on going out, top club.

I do not deny you won promotion. The basic and most important reason a low value Huddersfield Giants, bouncing up and won like a ping pong ball, add value to this league under licensing is through its stadium. Licensing allowed Huddersfield to become what they are, but when that thing was set in stone? You were mate.

Please do continue to blame the success of others for your failings though. Spout away with those particular facts. I hope Davey believes it too, there lies comedy.

I don't know how you managed to lose that game. Your pack smashed them tonight, just a few wrong final decisions. Brough not kicking the penalty and running it in first half came back to haunt you.

Up and down? Ooh dear the irony....

Right. Power failure. Not a stadium issue - the streetlights were out in the area too. The ticket office had no power, the turnstiles are electric and therefore weren't working and without lighting inside it would not have been safe to let people in to the Riverside. Hence people were directed over to the Kilner Bank, the side where the cameras are. That stand holds about 8000 and a finger in the air guesstimate suggests about 6500 were in there. Communication was difficult, the the PA was out as well after all, but they got it done in the end.

With a potential game on Thursday, neither side wanted to come back on Sunday and self-inflict a short turnaround. Add in the additional complication of the Dragons having a flight home tonight and they kind of had to play it. The teams agreed to play, Sky said they were OK to broadcast it, so off we went.

Good game. Really, really tough stuff. I thought Ian Henderson was magnificent, but both teams left it all out on the field. Chapeaus all round.

Both teams left it all on the field? Were you watching the same game as everyone else -giants didn't get it out let alone leave it on the field!

Almost as many home supporters tonight as what wigan Leeds wire and saints got last week and more than the entire crowd at Castleford on Thursday.. Go and slag their crowds .. No you can't do that xan yoy because its the done thing to bag our crowds and nobody else.. Just not trendy enough is it?
It was a joke kicking off with 5000 people still outside expecting a delayed kick off and no we didn't turn up again!

5000 outside? Brilliant.

yet we got as many home supporters as saints got to see them lift some silverware after so many years.
we got more home supporters than castleford and warrington got, almost as many home supporters as what leeds got and probably only 1000 less than what wigan got!

out of all the clubs who have had home games in the play offs, we are the only team to post an attendance higher than our season average.

yet we still get called for our lack of support!

absolute madness

total chaos lastnight, 10mins till kick off and the crowd all locked outside

no one really knew what was going on, which was poor from the stewards.

picked up our tickets from the ticket office and the staff were in darkness having to use mobile phones for torches!

think the crowd was 4250 which was above what i expected.

as for the so called catalan fans, they were a bunch of lads tanked up on alcohol from bradford, they didnt come over from France, and were trying to cause trouble all night, one got thrown out after trying to get on the pitch

they were mates of elliot whitehead and were an embarrassment.
after the game they were battling with the stewards to try and get into the players lounge and generally being obnoxious and abusive to everyone.
i hope a few of them got some slaps for their efforts!

the real catalan fans were a pleasure as always and very gracious in victory unlike these bells.

makes sense now with the whitehead link.