Now 8pm

Sky have decided to show Wire vs Widnes at 2.45pm rather than us so Bulls have moved the kick off, brilliant!



Nice as well that Bradford City are playing at home the exact same time. Just typical of the club....

Sky have decided their former biggest derby in SL now ranks below Warrington V Widnes



The Bulls switching the kick off time makes sense. Modern day fans of SL are more likely to be dissuaded from attending a game if there's a SL game on Sky at the same time because modern day fans of SL are fans of Sky products first and foremost. Bradford City are far less of an issue in terms of affecting the potential for turnstile rattling.

City’s attendances this season have been between 12,000 & 14,000.
Quite a lot of Season Ticket holders at City attend Bulls also!

This will affect the attendance for sure.

altering the time to clash with the football doesnt seem to make logical sense.

makes me suspect not a greatly run club.

With all due respect, the potential loss of a piddling few Bradford City supporters is nothing compared to the potential loss competing against Wigan V Saints at 12pm followed by Warrington V Widnes immediately after... both on Sky Sports.

Anyhow, I suspect Loz's grievance has bugger all to do with what's good or bad in terms of game scheduling itself and more to do with the drinking plans of the Southstand Massive being disrupted.

Living in Bradford and knowing a hell of a lot of supporters from both clubs who were looking forward to both games...I think it's a bit more than a "piddling few"

Incorrect

It's a pointless and also crazy idea clashing with an sporting event across town. No wonder the club is up the spout when they make calls like this

Being a Bradford City ST holder this has annoyed me, and plenty of Bulls supporters I know that attend City games also. No idea why they had to schedule them at the same time.

It's annoyed a lot of people I know as well GCM!
City originally moved the K/O time to 19:45 so it didn't clash with the Rugby.

If the alleged missing thousands of Bulls fans are absent due to watching Bradford City instead, this will be reflected in the attendance which ought to be significantly less than last years attendance of 12,016.

The wisdom or idiocy of Bradford Bulls decision to switch kick off time in order to avoid clashing with two live SL games on Sky Sports shall therefore be judged on the eventual attendance.

No-one at the club would have suggested that this would be a good idea, the switching of the k/o time has nothing whatsoever to do with Bradford Bulls or its management and everything to do with Sky Sports who have basically funded professional Rugby League for a couple of decades now, kept the game from vanishing off the face of the earth in a pro format and allowed egotistical club owners to spend Sky Sports money with reckless abandon and no thought of what might happen when the tap is turned off.

No-one in the game, supporters included (who are the first to scream for big-money signings every winter), can b1tch and whine about Sky Sports wanting to call the tune when they are paying dearly for the piper.

Shouldn't you be blaming Sky for the switch instead?

Why should Bradford Bulls go out of their way to accommodate soccer fans ahead of Super League fans?

I repeat what I said earlier... Bradford Bulls stand to lose out more in terms of attendance by clashing with two live SL games on Sky Sports than they do clashing with some insignificant third division rabble soccer fixture.

Why should Bradford City go out of their way to accommodate Rugby League Fans, they did.
That's the thanks they get.

They didn't go out of their way to accommodate Rugby League fans. They went out of their way to accommodate themselves by wisely avoiding a double-deckered clash with Bradford V Leeds at Odsal which was also due to be televised 'live' on Sky Sports. Since that particular clash no longer exists due to Sky changing their minds and selecting Warrington V Widnes instead, perhaps Bradford City may wish to re-accommodate themselves and their Harry Potter scarf-wearing fans accordingly?

But then you'll be upsetting Bradford City Supporters by moving it, seen as though it's been changed for a good few months now...

P.S Leave Harry Potter out of this.

I don't give a monkey's about Bradford City supporters getting upset. I don't give a monkey's about Leeds Utd supporters getting upset either. I don't give a monkey's about soccer. It's a sport which is populated by way too many morons, neanderthals and thickos.


Ok



Whether you (or Loz) like it or not... and it's only your personal plans for the day in question that have been messed with and the only reason for your grievances... Sky are responsible for the switch, as is their right because they own the product. It's theirs to do what the hell they like with as they see fit. The Bulls have merely reacted (as is their right) by switching the kick-off time in order to maximise their attendance.

I would suggest the Bulls have already lost the vast majority of their soccer-dwelling, bandwagoning, floating voter support quite some time ago as evidenced by the miserly 5,410 who could be bothered to turn up to their last home game. It's been quite some time since winning trophies, bouncy castles, fireworks, woolly bully, Rita, Sue and the rest of the cheerleaders from the neighbouring Buttershaw Estate were attracting anyone to Odsal-stylee Bullmania-fests!

Hosting Leeds is the Bulls biggest gate of the season and given the current malaise felt by Bulls fans, the clubs concern will be for Leeds fans turning up in huge numbers as opposed to peeing off the remaining few Bulls fans who harboured plans to watch both Bradford City and Bradford Bulls games on Good Friday. To that end, avoiding a clash with two "live" SL fixtures on Sky Sports would appear the most sensible option.

What stopped them keeping 2.45pm kick off, Sky?

I don't think they have changed it, according to the statements from both clubs they have [uconfirmed[/u it to be 8pm, that is, it has not been a definite k/o time until now, you may have taken a proposed time and assumed it was confirmed - presumably these fixtures are never firmed up until Sky take their pick four weeks (is it still four weeks) before the date, so yes, Sky fixture picking DOES affect other fixtures too.

Where was the kick off time ever announced anywhere? AFAIK it's been a TBC since the fixtures were released. If we/the Bulls manage to lose a few of our soccer fans along the way so much the better.

Dont forget it the last ever game at odsal between Leeds and bulls :-p

So which game will you be attending?

Having attended a number of City games this season, a friend has a box, you will not be missing much if you choose the rugby.

Parkinson's idea of the beautiful game is keep the ball off the ground by kicking as hard and far as you can!!

It depends on whether the City game matters.

Judging by the last 2 Odsal derbies, the first being the most bored I've ever been at a sporting event, and the second being a cakewalk lacking any kind of atmosphere, I won't be missing much if I go to Valley Parade either.

They should not get relegated this year surely and they can't make the play offs?

I yet to see a RL game that is anything close to the abject boredom I have witnessed at VP this year, it is truly shocking that some players are getting 5k a week to deliver the level of quality they do.

How were the prawn sandwiches?

Sadly absent in the corporate boxes of the 1911 - although the San Miguel is pretty good.