Cheap season tickets worked for Huddersfield though they managed an average attendance of 7000 with it.

There's no doubting that the Giants are a much better all around team than us right now so I'll be realistic about Sunday. Looking for more improvement and the Bulls to compete strongly which has not been the case against the Fartowners of late. Anything more than that would be a welcome surprise. The Giants are an established upper tier side and we are in the embryonic stages of attempting to join that elite again. The Bulls are headed in the right direction though and it's not going to be a season defining game, rather a good indication of how far the team has come in a few short months. One not to be missed in any case.

The sniping back and forth about crowd size is pointless really, that has little bearing on how good you are at Rugby League. Northern almost pipped Wigan to the title while not being as well supported as other teams that year, one rival whom we spanked at their place to finish the season being a prime example. Obviously the more people watch the greatest game the better but as fans we can sometimes obsess over other team's crowd size and that's a little childish. I include myself in that.

Find it funny how Huddersfield fans are saying we have no-one in England team. Errm don't think they realise that the team is picked by ex-Bradford coach who took the SL Champs and dismantled them in 4 years

Thank god we have no-one in England team. Be a good game Sunday, if our pack is on form Bulls by 10.

Would be funny if we took a couple of thousand fans and outnumbered the home support though.

A Huddersfield fan questioning a team's away support is comfortably my favourite post of the year so far.

Well done and thank you

You would need to bring 8000 to outnumber our support. Hope you do though then we would have a 15000 gate.

Where have these extra 3,000 Huddersfield supporters come from?

I was at a Huddersfield vs Catalans game last year and the crowd was just over 5,000.

What team do you all hope to see?

Royston
Ainscough
Platt
Ah Van
Raynor
Kearney
Herbert
Hargreaves
Diskin
Lynch
Elima
Whitehead
Langley

Kopczak
Scruton
Olbison
Addy

well we had 8,800 against fc and they didnt bring more than maybe 700 so we had 8,000 of our own fans so theres ur 3,000 plus a home game against catalan doesnt appeal as much as other games

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm



2010
Total gates 108718 V 101892
Ave gate 7765 V 7278

Interesting second graph comparision given the sniping on here . . . . . . . and yet, lets be honest, the Bulls were the one's who had a bit of a shocker



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But you still only had 5,000 Huddersfield supporters in the ground for that game.

My side would be this:

Royston
Ainscough
Platt
Ah Van
Raynor
Kearney
Herbert
Hargreaves
Diskin
Lynch
Elima/Olbison
Whitehead
Langley/Elima

Kopczak
Scruton
Olbison/Sibbit
Addy

We are going to need plenty of forward power for this one.

the bulls have no chance of outplaying the hudds pack. i think we could cause them a few suprises but can really see them winning this comfortably. Wigan, wire and hudds have the 3 best packs by quite a way imo and o donnell is class.

No pack is unbeatable. We will need our best performance of the year so far to come away with anything on Sunday though. Huddersfield don't usually make many errors so we need to make sure we put plenty of pressure on them and take most of our opportunities to score.

Should be an interesting game.

Lets hope that hat trick gives Koppy some confidence to go out and use his size on sunday! Remember his big hit on Crabtree at the end of the '09 season?

Really hope Langley is back, that would really help us stand up to that big Hudds pack.

Royston
Ainscough
Platt (And hope MP tells him to help Ainy out on every high ball)
Ah Van
Raynor
Kearney
Herbert
Lynch
Diskin
Hargreaves
Elima
Whitehead
Langley

Addy (at 9 again)
Olbison
Kopzcak
Scruton

If Langers is out then Olby into 13 and Sibbit on bench.

Where are they playing this one? The Galpharm or Don Valley?

If you want to be funny, be accurate. It was the McAlpine Stadium in 2001.

and brammall lane

I think they'd give our reserves a good game.

2010
Bulls v Catalans att:6217
Giants v Catalans att:5926
Pretty much taking the urine out of your own support there pal to say the Bulls are supposed to be 'The People's team' lol

That seriously tickled me.

The amount of bitter Huddersfield fans on here is brilliant, for the record. I know crowds don't make a measure of a team, but if they did, Huddersfield would be looking at the table upside down. Why can't you Giants fans let this bitterness slip?

In terms of the game, I think our pack can easily cope with theirs. It's in the outside backs and halves where we might just come up short.



Oooh get you, all this semi-success has gone to your head hasn't it! Although I suppose you probably feel like you are successful, now you've managed to forge your way into the top half of the league.

2010 - Bulls worst season in SL history.
2010 - Giants best season in SL history.

Yet we still got a bigger crowd than you mob? Owch.

I just love this smugness that Giant's fans now have.

They've won nothing of note for the best part of 60 years.

Their only final appearance during the SL era involved them being on the wrong side of the largest CC Final winning margin for nearly 10 years.

So yes, for the last few years, Bradford have been on a downward spiral. But the Banana is no longer in charge of the Bulls. His poor recruitment of players like Sherriffe and Worrincy are a thing of the past. And all though the Giants are a well drilled side, they're not a team to be feared. If you shut down Brough, their attacking ability is greatly reduced.

hopefully your 1st team will come into the game with exactly that attitude. Although I doubt it as nathan brown knows a bit more about rugby than you.

Ft Giants 110 - Bulls minus 16.
Attendance 25,000 (consisting of 24,998 Giants, 1 bulls and a guide dog)

Hope that is acceptable to our extremely welcome, much-loved, visiting Giants fans on this forum. Hugs and kisses.