Couldn't agree more with 'shauwn78' and 'this_cougar_outfit' although it's sad about the jobs.

Northern have never done anything for us - look at the team that they sent for last 'Joe Phillips Trophy' game. Perhaps they were saving money then, but to treat one of their and our gtreat players with contempt shows their true colours. Roll-on Championship 1!

The 'Look North' coverage this lunchtime just wanted me to throw-up!

Although we know that there is life outside Super League, it appears that no-one else does!

Do I feel sorry for the fans who have bought season tickets yes I do. Do I feel sorry for the players yes I do.

Do I feel sorry for club in general not a chance. Lots of stomach churning bulls are too big a club and super league needs them, really why?

Twitter is awash with folk in shock but surely directors must have known, I hope they get through it but even if they fold a reformed club will not be demoted with franchises in place as a result of Broncos as they are now known going bust rfl changed rules as far as I know.

I too was sickened by the lunchtime news, I don't want the dulls to be no more but I do believe they should pay the price for being in the position they have put themselves in.

They are no different to any other team at the end of the day yet something tells me they will come through this without so much as a black mark against them, I would expect the RFL will certainly have a hand in bailing them out

I know I may sound bitter but unless you were around in cougarmania days gone by then you can't possibly understand

Too right. My sympathy levels are through the floor Im afraid. But here's an idea... perhaps our two clubs could merge! The new club would play at Cougar Park and would be called 'Keighley Cougars'! Hang on, that sounds familiar...
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They quickly feathered their own nest back in 94-95 and couldn't dump us fast enough, despite us having a team which was arguably better than theirs. If I remember rightly, Caisley ridiculed the new 'Cougars' name and said 'Northern' had nothing to learn from the Keighley club, after which they promptly became the Bulls, pinched all Keighley's ideas and passed them off as their own.

Caisley I think said something on the lines of "It will be a cold day in hell when Northern needs loud music dancing girls and the like to get people through the turnstiles, that's for that lot down the road",well folks we all know what happened next.
By the way as I remember the smiling chairmen from Salford who looked so pleased after there meeting that decided our fate were Caisley,Maurice Lindsey and Gary & Kath Hetherington the last two were still pre-occupied counting the 100k+ we spent on Powell only days before Super League was announced,and then he had the bloody cheek once he was in charge at Leeds to buy him back plus the likes of Fleary,Irvine and several other players for peanuts and told the press he done us a favour.
So bitter,to bloody right I am,and long may it continue.

As a Fev fan I agree 100%. Keighley were brushed to one side during the formation of SL when you were a club on the up. If Keighley would have rightly been promoted then the clubs history could have been so different.

I understand your bitterness, I feel the same way. This has been a long time coming and to be honest I am over the moon.

THANK GOD fans on my wavelength. Having watched Keighley since the early 80s I have had to stomach all the s**t from B******d fans, the endless spin in the T&A, Caisley ..... dont get me started. Ive worked with so called loyal Bulls fans and have tied them in knots when it came to the history of the club, Call yourselves fans ???
If it was ANY other club ANY i would have been sympathetic . But with it being Bradford I nearly peed myself laughing. What goes around comes around ..... BULLY BULLY

'ironic smirks' all round me thinks ...... Karma is and always will be a right old B*tch ....... >>ss behind his hand ..... Hard luck Bradford Dulls , welcome to the real world and we look forward to playing you in the championship next year after your demotion. oh hang on ......... they are a Super league club , different rules apply www.loverugbyleague.com/blogpost ... swers.html

'ironic smirks' all round me thinks ...... Karma is and always will be a right old B*tch ....... >>ss behind his hand ..... Hard luck Bradford Dulls , welcome to the real world and we look forward to playing you in the championship next year after your demotion. oh hang on ......... they are a Super league club , different rules apply www.loverugbyleague.com/blogpost ... swers.html

Apparently Robbie Paul been on calendar asking fans to pledge. Shame nobody did same for Blackpool when they went under last year.

Exactly.

Keighley are and always have been a great club with strong links to the community and would do all possible to help any charity or organisation,

However, before anyone at the club has a brain fart prior to the game on Sunday and risks upsetting the real cougar faithful fans can I please state that the worst possible thing that the cougar management could even contemplate is to announce this dreaded Br*dfud Dulls scheme asking for people to support them or indeed rugby league or however else it could be polished up to appeal to ones better nature and shake buckets in our faces for a few coppers,

Please don't do that!

Thank you

Apologies to mods for the phrase brain fart

That would just completely alienate the fans who follow our club.

The thought of that makes me feel ill.

I would be very disappointed if the club acknowledged them.

Anyway, this is a good topic. I'd post my serious opinion, but it's already gradually been covered throughout the course of this topic.

All that will happen is the Bulls will have this whip round.
Then they will go bust and go into admin.

Then start as a new club with a 4 point deduction.

You're probably right

I didn't see anyone prepared to help us when our club was at death's door a couple of years back.

I don't think they'll go under, I hope they don't. Rivalries are nothing if the other team doesn't exist but I can't bring myself to give them any money, pretty much any other club I would but not Br*dford.