just thought id let you know





COMMMMEEEEEEEEEE ONNN YOU BULLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is great news . Now let's wait and see how many pledges turn into actual ticket sales.

it is good news......

especially as it means that about 3000 bulls made that pledge in the last few days......

after the "pledgometer" had been taken down off of the website.......

to build up to the big announcement obviously..........!!


nah....sorry Bulls...you got about 7000 pledges and probably 1000 of them are wind ups.......

I'd estimate Leeds would get the 10,000 needed for such an offer in about 7 days, tops.

Still...I look forward to Bulls establishing themselves once again as a real powerhouse club..............in the Championship!!

Mine was.

I think you're mistaking us for people who care about it ...

Good news, still, it converts into about what, 3000 ticket sales at "normal" price ?

That should allow them to sleep a little easier through the winter knowing that the safe is just bursting with all that money for new player salaries...

Makes me chuckle that the Dulls think its a big archivement and something to get excited about, but in reality as McF mentioned above they've got the 10,000 season ticket holders, but the bank balance will only state that they have 3,000 and that is quite shocking. If Leeds, Wigan, Hull and Saints only got 3K it would be bad financial news.

Never ones for letting facts get in the way of a good gloat? Guess we'd do the same if roles were reversed, of course.

Funnily enough, I will be paying £99 for my seat which cost me IIRC about £190 early bird pricing last year, so that does not sit with your 30% theory. Last year Bulls had just over 5k season ticket holders, including kids and concessions. This year looks like we will have over 10k PLUS kids and concessions, since the latter pledges did not count towards target. And pretty well everybody knows someone who did not pledge who was hanging back to "wait and see". Also, these prices hold only for a month or so, after which they go up between 50% and 100% (the £60 terrace tacket becomes £120, for example) - result being the club gets far more cash in earlier. Had the club NOT done this, I doubt more than about 4k would have bought season tickets. Add in the likely big boost to securing sponsorship income, and of course the significant ancillary income from supporters, and in fact the maths make a great deal of sense.

Will still count for little if the team does not perform, but that's for another day. At least another part of the necessary platform is built now.

But as someone said earlier, its not as if you lot are interested, or have any reason to be, as it hardly concerns you. The OP should have known better.

My interest in the Bulls is that they provide competition for the teams we compete against rather than just targetting two games against Leeds every year like our inbred country cousins do. The stronger you are the better in that regard.

TBH, I think it's good that the Bulls are trying ideas to try to get the support back and stabilise the ship. Now I may be in a minority on this board but I doubt it and my opimnion is that the game of RL needs as many strong clubs as possible. Especially clubs that have a good track record of bringing through British players.

Of course we will mock each other but at the end of the day the RL family needs to work together to improve the games profile both in our own communities and in the wider world, it is the only way our sport will continue to grow.

Agreed. After a couple of years outside the play-off places, it's no longer even fun to laugh at Bradford. Fair play to them for coming up with something different to try to get the terraces full at an RL ground. That's always an idea I can support. Whether it really works remains to be seen, but I'm not going to knock them for trying something.

Of course, there ship was sinking and they needed to do something. So now they have recaptured the lost supporters, see if they can keep them for the season after in which I presume the prices will go up so they can get near to competing with the big clubs.

As has been said your estimate of revenues being 30% is probably incorrect based on the number of potential season ticket holders and we will have to wait and see what the long-term effects are, but the Bulls look to have reveresed the decline in season ticket holders and will be getting a good chunk of money up front for the coming season. I applaud their efforts to come up with new ways to target their audience in these difficult economic times.

This is good news for Bradford and Leeds. Hopefully it will mean more of Bradford's following will be coming to Headingley, and that our derby will be revitalised to the levels of the early-mid 00s.

Im a bit suspicious of the pledge numbers since as has been said they were about 3,000 short not so long ago. Considering the length of time the pledge had been going its suprising that so many people signed up so quickly.

Having said that, fair play to Bradford for trying things to turn around the club. A Bradford that doesn't win things is always fun to a Leeds fan such as myself. A weak Bradford club is not funny for the game or for Leeds. Well not for long anyway.

Maybe Bradford are slowly coming back down to earth, for their natural position in the rugby world.

I remember trips to Northern in the early nineties, a dark miserable place, with frowning supporters and an average team. With middle of the road results.

Meh.

Doubt it. It will be a very long time until those days come back around.

The only problem with someone who's used a calculator to work out that they are paying £5 or so a game to watch each home match is that they are going to bitch and whine like hell when they have to come to Headingley and pay £20 on the gate, you can eat at McDonalds all week for that sort of money.

Oh.

Oh.

I listen to the Pulse and they've been giving loads away every day all last week.... I bet they're included as well

Unless we were playing Leeds of course, more often than not it was 2pts to us IIRC!