Bradford will have every right to feel aggrieved if 3000 show up for this game. If this fixture doesn't give the club's profile a boost in the capital, what possible justification is there for disrupting the Super League fixture list?

Exactly. 3000 would be unacceptable. I fully expect 5-6k.

As do the club

Who cares about Bradford. What or who are they that we should be subservient to there wishes. They should think themselves lucky they haven't only got 1 point from 2 games.



They are a club in decline. A club that embraced the SL in the early days but have gone backwards thereon in. Crowds, trophy's, the condition of the ground compared to other new grounds .........

Lets enjoy our show piece game tomorrow

Does anyone know if this is getting live radio coverage tomorrow? At least if I cannot now make the game due to having to work I can at least cheer the boys on while I'm at work

Think Radio London are there all afternoon.

Thanks for that. Will have to be content listening to that then!!!

Surely there will be a largish crowd or what reason would they have for opening both stands??

Just been to the cashpoint to draw out the cash to buy PP a few beers. Anything under 7,000 and I supply 1 pint per 1,000 rounded up/down......so, I believe it will cost me about £6,40......
5,000 is a good figure for a friendly....and an OPPORTUNITY to get some people back next week for Wigan.

anyway...more importantly

....Oh, Luke Dorn is a poacher,
he wears a poachers hat,
and when he sees the try-line
he says "I fancy that"


COME ON YOU QUINS!

To make the WCC match a more even contest by giving the away team a preparatory match in similar conditions.

As far as I'm concerned the Superleague fixture list hasn't been disrupted by this match, it's been disrupted by the weather. I'm happy we're playing this match regardless of whether 3,000 or 10,000 turn up and I couldn't care less what anyone from Bradford thinks. Since when did they ever care about our club?

PoD, the simple fact is that the Bulls game would have been played today if you weren't taking on Manly in a friendly.

The previous two WCCs saw the Aussie side play National League opposition with the European game's flagship competition uninterrupted.

Why should the Bulls give a flying ---- about Quinze?

Leeds opponents next week could say the same, as could Wigans opponents later in the season when they get there pitch grassed.

Just accept its gone.

Newsflash: The Wigan-Wakefield and Leeds-Celtic games were played!

So...what was the attendance?
Was it a sell out?

I don't know what the attendance was, I'd say the LV and Etihad stands were both 2/3's full, so work it out from that

I know I'm gutted, 14-0 up after 15 minutes, 20-0 up at half-time, then lose 26-34. That last fifteen minutes or so was such a come-down from the excitement of the first half. At one point I thought Purdham's two missed conversions (easy ones) might have mattered, but the gap was obviously larger than that

attendence was said to be 6032.
iirc.

Showpiece!

The show piece is on Sun! Hope you enjoyed your trial match anyway. Winning the proper match is much better though!

And ours wasn't because of the weather, not becasue of our game with manly. The cold snap could just as easily have occured this weekend instead of two weeks ago.

So 2 times 3000 means they're not aggrieved?



It was a belting game by the way, allowing for the lopsided effects of the two teams' different approach to use of substitutes.

I did wonder whether there was some sort of pre-match agreement to send fans of both teams home happy. It also featured on Sky's 9.30 round-up tonight, but I note that while they said that we scored our tries past Manly's reserve grade, the fact that they scored all theirs against our reserve grade wasn't mentioned. And at least we got one in the second half!

The fact we played an experimental side in the second half seems to have been overlooked in every single report I've seen.

BAILEY Chris
BALLIN Matt
CUTHBERTSON Adam
FORAN Kieran
HALL Glenn
HODKINSON Trent
KING Jason
L’ESTRANGE Heath
LYON Jamie
MATAI Steve
MORWOOD Phil
NEUMANN Shane
ORFORD Matt
PERRY Josh
ROBERTSON Michael
RODNEY Shane
ROSE George
STEWART Brett
STEWART Glenn
SUNIULA Andrew
WAEREA-HARGREAVES Jared
WATMOUGH Anthony
WILLIAMS David


I believe that these players sent over hardly contain any of Manly's reserve grade. A few may not have played first grade, yet, but are still in the first grade squad.

How did Kieran Foran go? He may play first grade this year at five-eighth.

If he was playing in the first half, and you are expecting in-field kicking from him, don't expect to much, Manly's kicking game in the first half was awful imo.

Interestingly, the crowd was a shade over half the 11,926 that attended a similar challenge match your club played on the eve of the 1981 Challenge Cup Final. The opponents? The champion Braford Northern side.

Shame the Bulls don't get crowds like that anymore

Bradford Bulls, living in the past.