On reflection, when we were not in Super League we had crowds of about 2000, the ground was owned by the Council and therefore they did the upkeep. We are in a very different position now. Our landlords, as far as I am aware do not upkeep the ground and the charges are £72000 per year rent. In essence the Club would be saddled with large debts without doing anything. All very depressing - just hope we can keep in SL -

I doubt the club would want to be paying £72k + upkeep, per annum in the Championship. Which brings on the possibility that, if the club decides to take a cheaper alternative and moves out of Odsal, the conditions of the RFL's primary lease it would then become null and void as a Bradford team wasn't playing most of its games at the ground. Maybe the club could then retake the primary lease from the council........using peppercorn as the rent natch.

As for the rest it's very much a series of open questions; will the owner stay or go? how many players would we lose? [with no team being promoted, how many would actually get another contract elsewhere?, would many of them remain, but on lower contracts? How much effect will the new competition monies [and slightly higher cap for lower division clubs have on how many could be retained? Maybe most importantly, what is going to happen to the academy system and training ground?

I would hope a city the size of Bradford would attract more than a "couple of thousand", to be honest. With a team which is winning [oh dear gods of RL, please a few more games than recently and playing well, all be it at a lower level, I would have thought maybe 3 -4 K as a realistic baseline. Anyway, best we win as many as possible of these games, as said before, there is always the unexpected win or loss in the equation - let's hope for more wins.

I am saving up so that when we avoid relegation I can go to the pub and get pi**ed.
If we get relegated I can also afford to go to the pub and get pi**ed. It's a win, win situation regarding having a night out at the pub so not everything looks gloomy.

The Dog Fight starts here and Looking at both The Bulls and Wakefield's remaining fixtures i reckon that we have got by far the easier run in

IMO I believe we will need at least a 2 point return from the appeals committee to take the relegation battle down to points difference

Wakefield Wildcats remaining fixtures and my predicted outcome

London Broncos Home win
Wigan Warriors Home loss
Hull FC Home loss
Leeds Rhinos Home loss
Widnes Vikings Home loss
Catalan Dragons Away loss
Warrington Wolves Away loss
Huddersfield Giants Home loss
St Helens Away loss
Salford Red Devils Home Win
Castleford Tigers Away loss
Hull Kingston Rovers Home loss

I can see them only winning 2 more games this season against London and Salford = 4points

Bulls remaining fixtures and my predicted outcome

Salford Red Devils Away loss
Hull Kingston Rovers Home win
Warrington Wolves Away loss
Catalan Dragons Home win
St Helens Away loss
Huddersfield Giants Away loss
Wigan Warriors Home loss
Leeds Rhinos Away loss
Hull FC Home Loss
Castleford Tigers Away Loss
Widnes Vikings Preview Home Win
London Broncos Away Win

I can see us winning games against Hull KR, Catalans, Widnes & London = 8 points

Thoughts..........

Pretty much argee although I think we can take Salford as well!

COYB!!

Think the next few weeks are crucial. We cannot afford to lose momentum. Definite improvements needed. Definitely need O'brien to return and someone will have to step up and fill in Kaufusi's huge boots (Walker certainly isn't the answer, although I'm sure Cummins will stick with him. )Stand off needs addressing as well, Addy is too slow to be a half back. If we're going to stick with Gaskell at FB, i would try Brook in next week. Full bloodied challenge cup game, in which we have nothing to lose. Try him, let's see how he does.

I still think we are relegated unless we get all 6 points back, and i'm not expecting that.

I would hope that a deal could be done to keep Kafusi until the end of the season. Our pack certainly has more fight in it when he's playing and he seems to have had a positive influence on Nas and he seems to want to hit the line running now

Don't forget there is always Pandora's box.A lovely "girl" who is a bit of a tease but she will give you one hell of a ride/journey to meet her friend Hope.I'm surprised you've not come across her already Pumpety with the Bulls previous tribulations.Her fat mamma has not sung yet!Relagation is not a done deal ask Wakefield.

Damn.....

Agar has stepped down as Wakey coach!

Not the news I wanted to see today

If they get Morrison in as replacement, then that could be us done for.
Which would be quite ironic, really...

Nah, Agents Morro, Scruton and Sammutt know what to do

Not good news. He'sreplaced by ex assistant james webster according to the beeb;

[url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/27666665agar gone[/url

Not what we needed ahead of their game with London, they'll proably get a boost from it being the new mans first game and beat London easily, whereas with agar in charge I thought London might have had a shot at an upset. Oh well, concentrate on ourselves and just try and get as many points as we can.

Or they could go the Salford route and pick up only 3 points from the next 9 games. Seems more like Agar has seen a better opportunity and taken it.

London are due a win.

I wish Webster every bit of the same success we enjoyed when Macca's assistant took over for the rest of the season.

They are indeed. They've been due a win for some time, and it must be said they [iare[/i getting closer, and I've had a few worries about them getting a better scoring difference than us. Wakey do have a few wins under their belt though, so I reckon they must start favourites against London.

Loving the fact that the Wakey board has a Bulls v Salford thread

They're absolutely pathetic on there. Check out the thread that got me banned it's completely ludicrous and not a criticism of them at all. Only the mod called wildthing hasn't got the intelligence to realise it.

They're gearing themselves up already for outrage today. Snowie and a few others are ready to walk away from the sport. Well they're lnobhead chairman is. Be funny to read the backtracking if we do get points back.

Do you know what's even more pathetic than that? A Bulls vs Wakefield thread on the top 8 giants board.

We might end up going down and things might have gone drastically wrong but this just proves we were real good not too long ago. People wouldn't be this bitter and twisted about us if we didn't have a full trophy cabinet.

The only thing giant about the Huddersfield club are the chips on the shoulders of many of their supporters on these boards. Even though they've been a better side than us for the past few years, they still have a massive inferiority complex when it comes to Bradford

Kevin Locke to sign for Salford with immediate effect, just awaiting his visa. he will strengthen them if they get dragged into relegation battle

Koucash mentioned on twitter they were hoping he'd be here in time to debut against Cas so hopefully no chance of him playing this Sunday. Side effect is Salford having to offload players to accommodate him under this years salary cap. Talk on wakey board of Tim smith returning to them and sammut going to fev.

Sammut to Fev? Really? I can't see that one.

They got any Props?!

They've to an old stager that used to turn out for Warrington but he'll probably bottle it and crawl off the humbersard.