I fail to see what supporting a particular sports club has to do with the town/city that they play in. You do not need to be from Bradford to follow the Bulls, and therefore do not need to have any interest or loyalty to BCFC.

I dont come from Bradford and but i go to every home Bulls game and most the their away as long as its in lancs/west yorks.

But moving the Bulls game is a no brainer, either get a low crowd on the sunday as most will be going to wembley or watching on TV, or move the game to fri/sat and get alot more through the gate, maybe anyone with a final ticket gets in half price?

There are some who do that, it's true, but the vast majority of Bulls' fans do come from Bradford, as in fact do many of those with other current addresses, The same would be true of City fans and I'd suggest the antis, on both sides, are more likely to be people bearing local grudges and with local axes to grind rather than people from outside the region.

Really? You do? How about the nose on your face? Do you have difficulty with that, too?

I do not actively support Bradford City. But they are the fully-professional soccer club in my adopted city. If good things happen to businesses and clubs and other entities in Bradford, that can only be good for Bradford and its people. Of which I have been one for over 26 years now.

Why on earth anyone from or living in the Bradford area would NOT wish every success to ANY business or club or other entity in our district I really cannot fathom. We sure as hell need every ounce of success and luck we can get right now. Maybe someone who would willingly cut off his nose to spite his face might undersatand?

I repeat: superb effort by Bradford City. Well done.

I see my influence is all-pervasive. Kirkstaller was right.

Wouldnt Saturday seem a better option if WCC is on Friday night??

I am not, by any stretch of the imagination, a football fan. But I would still be disappointed if I could not watch the final because it clashed with the Bulls game.
I am sure common sense will prevail and the Saints game will be moved.

Surely they know theres a big game on and most fans will want to watch it, they should change the football to a wednesdy night, why should the important game be moved to accomodate the football.

Rewind to 1996. Bulls were at Wembley, City had a league home game scheduled for the same day, the football got moved to the friday night, no grumbles.

Makes sense to move the saints game to Saturday,kick off could be anytime for me

Then we can watch city in the final and watch Melbourne stuff Leeds on the Friday

Could be a really good weekend

OK, put it this way then...

City have got an allocation of just over 30,000 now i'm sure out of that 30,000 they'll be a fair few Bulls Supporters going to the game?!

You'd have to be a miserable get not to want BCFC to win wherever you came from.

And let's face it, we've all seen games rescheduled for far, far worse reasons than this.

According to the T&A, the RFL are playing 'hardball' about moving to Friday (due to WCC) so it seems like it may be Saturday. To be honest, I think a Saturday game would still cost the Bulls a significant amount as quite a few are going to make a weekend of the Wembley trip and who can blame them.

Agree that Saturday will be a reduced income but its still got to be an improvement on playing game on the Sunday. Think we're exaggerating a bit saying it will cost us 100k tbh. Season ticket portion of attendance have already paid whether they turn up or not, can't see there being another 5k walkup that won't attend if its on the Sunday. That's basically assuming entire walkup support will go to wembley instead. Think 50-60k would be a more realistic amount were likely to miss out on.

More Saints fans and us long distance travellers on a Saturday c.f. Friday so may even out slightly.

Well move it to saturday and me & our lass can't go. So if RFL don't allow us to play it friday and it's played on saturday that'll cost em a bar tab of 60 sheets and that's just our lass

Monday night ??

That's a thought, though if Saints have a Friday game the following week they may not be too happy with the short turn round - given that it's not their problem.

Although ironically we had to do the same, we played Cas at home on a Monday and then travelled to Saints on the Friday. And we got stuffed. I raised the question and was met with "tough".

They do lol - they have Leeds the following friday where as we have Huddersfield on the sunday !!

But when everyone plays 2 games in 4 days over the easter weekend no one complains

Maybe that's because everyone is doing it, ie. no-one gets an advantage?

We'll play on Sunday so Leeds can have their cash (and glory). The Bulls who are in need of the money given another blow by the RFL. I wonder if Salford will deducted points and Sky money? Somehow I doubt it. Too many axes to grind by the RFL in relation to the Bulls.

The points deduction was for going into admin. It's set out in the rules so no complaints on that score IMO. Salford haven't gone into administration so there's no reason for a points deduction to be applied.

Read about this is the paper and couldn't believe the RFL hadn't been more helpful. Could the H & A fixtures not be switched?