Bradford's Bouncing Back, is it not?

It was a number of years ago when that slogan was coined. Maybe, superficial as it is, a similar campaign is needed today?

I cant believe that this thread has been started and commented upon by someone who relocated to Doncaster of all places, or is it a village outside Doncaster witha Doncaster Post code. Bradford is a northern industrial City that has fallen on hard times like many others. thats becuase the sources of employment that led to these towns and cities growing is no longer there! Places like Huddersfield, Wigan, St Helens, Warrington, Leigh, Halifax, Castleford, Pontefract, Dewsbury, Batley, Blackburn, Bolton, BUrnley, HUll, Sheffield, Doncaster, York, Wakefield etc..... Only Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds are growing, and thats because they hit the depths first!

Virtually every SL club would be seeking to relocate to Leeds or Manchester then????

all of thses places will have outlying districts that are very nice, but the town/city centres and some of the inner city areas will not be very nice! No Sh*t!!!

Would I walk alone in Moss-side, or Chapletown, or Toxteth after dark ??? no! nor would i walk through Manningham or Bradford Moor. Would I go out in Bingley, or Baildon, or Haworth? of course i would!

Bradford BUlls for me. I am a Bradfordian and follow them because they are the team that represents our city. end of. even keeping the name and moving the ground in to another locale would stop me supporting.

[url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/news_backing/"We're Backing Bradford!"[/url

Amusingly, not updated since around the time of the original completion date for the park.

Strangely, although that is quite recent, well, a lot more recent than the 'bouncing back' campaign, I don't remember it.


Maybe it's because I've become a bit disengaged and tend not read to the end of articles promising jam tomorrow? On the same theme, I wonder to myself, is my disengagement [imy[/i fault or is it the fault of the authorities in charge of leading us to paradise?

The only reason I remembered it was my bus stop where I catch my bus home on an evening is the one opposite the T&A building, and they have a mostly unmolested sign still attached to the building. If it was summer and I was regularly cycling home I'm sure I'd have forgotten all about it.

But I do remember Bob Holness quizzing a Bradford resident about Bradford's Bouncing Back on Blockbusters in the 80s.

Yeah, "We're Backing Bradford" just isn't [iquite[/i alliterative enough to be memorable, I guess.


How about " Burgers Backing Bradford's Bigger Bounce Back to Become Better"?

He wanted to see where all the beautiful people come from. That or be close to another right wing lunatic in charge of the town.



I cycled through Manningham every day for 10 years without much trouble. I walked home numerous time late at night as well. I must admit I'm not sure where Bradford Moor is exactly.

Are they Class A or B drugs?

Sort of between Fagley and Laisterdyke, more or less. Oh, and it's fine to walk through.

You're think of Beta Blockbusters. Bob Holness is a legal high.

Dolly Parton briefly considered buying a flat in Doncaster. Then she stopped smoking Bob Holness and changed her mind.

My mistake, [url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/jul/25/dolly-parton-rotherhamthat was Rotherham[/url. Nobody has considered buying a flat in Doncaster.

Of course Bradford has much more to offer than Donny, new transport interchange, direct rail link to London, new college, new theatre being built and pride of place a new 15,500 all seater stadium.
Looking at the facts as hard as they are to stomach, Bradford is being left behind.

you can get a direct train to London from Bradford and in the Alhambra and St. Georges hall, there are 2 very decent theatres to check out the top names that are still coming to Bradford.

With respect mate, if you don't want anything to do with Bradford then you know the courses of action available to you. If jibes at your town prick against your civic pride I can suggest not starting a thread telling people of another town that everything to do with where they're from sucks and should be swept under the carpet simply because you, a person from far away, choose not to be associated with it.

Choose more decisively.

How many of those things were the result of the library closing, anti-gay mayor & how many were thanks to the previous Labour administrations?

My girlfriend is from Bradford and i lived there for almost a decade, the point of the thread was not having a go at the city of Bradford which is not really my problem, but was to highlight what in my opinion would be a better marketing ploy for the club which as i have had a season ticket for for seventeen years is my business.
I don't see that there is a connection between the city of Bradford and what happens at the club, other than the location and judging by the amount of people i see on the M62 going to Odsal not everyone lives in Bradford. If the crowd was made up of purely people who reside in Bradford then fair enough maybe i am wrong, but it isn't so i don't see as changing the name would be a bad thing at all. I only have the future interests of the club at heart.

Although "hi de hi" has not done himself any favours in his presentation (again), maybe at least it could be said he recognises there may be an elephant in the room?

Who mentioned the current mayor? The prevoius Mayor was an Independant.
In any case which ever one you are referring to they both won an election.

Another one to Bradford. Given the population, we probably have more loony tunes than you, but we don't vote them in as mayor......

Bradford Council always covers itself in......glory?

As i said i am not concerned with what does or does not happen in Bradford or a point scoring exercise of my town is better than yours etc, my concern is for the long term future of the Bulls in regaining a position at the top end of Rugby League which in my opinion would be easier to sell to sponsors etc without the 'Bradford' tag. I am not trying to wind anyone up with this, i am just looking at this from the point of view of potential outside businesses looking in.

Which is a fair point to make. My opinion is that all that matters in that regard is success and profile. Changing the name would have little positive impact on that and would, I think, be outweighed by losing local identity with Bradford.

Yes, there are many fans from outside Bradford but the core are the locals. I would have thought peoples response to your suggestion would have demonstrated that people are attached to the town and having its name associated with the team.

Keeping the pledge numbers high and a return of form will bring sponsors in regardless of the name. Anyway Bradford Bulls already has brand recognition that you would be sacrificing by changing the name. When people ask me who I support, generally they know who we are and how successful we've been.

As I said at the start, the stories you were concerned about aren't visible outside Bradford and everywhere has the same problems. And anyway do you think calling ourselves Northern anything would help with UK wide sponsors? "Northern" hardly has any better connotations for most.