We are. Or, at least, we are certainly getting there with some urgency now.

More and more we are becoming the sort of club that is harder to defend and, TBH, if one of our rivals were like us we would be quick to pull them up on it.

How so?

Well, lets go back to the late 90's and early 2000's. We were winning, but had to cheat by breaking the salary cap in order to gain a success. A success that we got without being on a level playing field with the other clubs. A level playing field that suddenly matters to our fans now that we are not getting the full quota of Sky money.

Then look at the succession of dubious owners/chairman we have had. You would have thought that it would be difficult to get worse than Caisley and the Hoodwinker but we seem to have managed it somehow.

There is our ground that the good old RL helped us with, our PR record which, in recent seasons is a complete embarrassment and a media team within the club that seem to have absolutely no idea whatsoever what they are doing and seem to just want to annoy the fans at every opportunity.

We have fans that seem to blindly follow people who force feed us half-truths and complete fabrication, somehow believing that it will all be ok. Fans of other clubs must be pi$H!ng themselves laughing at some of the nonsense some of our fans come out with.

Then there are the ones that turn a blind eye to everything that goes on so long as "we have a team to support." Well, TBF, I would rather not follow a side that seems content to slide more and more into the gutter the longer things go on.

I am finding it harder and harder to like Bradford Bulls now. I know exactly what plenty of you will say but just look at the bigger picture for once before I get my usual castigation.

For too long we have been a complete embarrassment of a club. No wonder our crowds are dwinding so much. People have had enough.

We are becoming like Millwall now. No one likes us, but we SHOULD care.

This club is a mess and, TBH, if we go down next season then it will be our just desserts IMO.

We're going to get more haters when we win the league from 8th this season.

We won't though. Everyone is out to get us I thought?

It is never our fault for anything.

You make some good points. i am going to stop supporting us immediately.

Get back in your cupboard and take all your doom and gloom with you x

Sadly for you though, it may be "doom and gloom", but it is also completely factual.

Agree with pretty much all you said ME, but I think we are still behind leeds as the disliked team can't think of any fan of any club who likes them to be honest, that's a shame as it would be good if we where disliked would give us a harder edge, we just needed to sign Bailey and busquets.

Some like some hate always going to be the case always will, both times we broke the cap we where found out we didnt go to decieve like another club who will remin nameless, if the rfl didn't fanny bout in the way they did this may never have gotten this far, so we are either hated and exist or loved but we fell through the door last year, I'd take the hated moniker forba while and we can build on it next year, sick of finishing behind leeds.

I don't mind Leeds half as much as I did as a kid. In fact they've been a real ally to the club since Hood departed.

I'd say Hudders look a bit less clean cut at the moment and your post is a bit OTT Eddie.

How is it OTT Bullseye? It is an accurate description of the last few years. Of course, if it is incorrect in any way I would be happy to clear up any inaccuracies.

I think you have to be successful to be disliked. I think most people now think of us as an irrelevance.

Nobody likes us, we don't care.

You going to stop going then ME? Oh hang on...

Jesus that is original. Never heard that one before. No really. What a comedian.

I think most oft he dislike came from being succesful, Man Utd have the same problem as did Leeds Utd a few decades ago. But I prefer to be disliked for being succesful rather than being KNOWING cheats like Shudders!!

Erm.................

OK lets be pedantic I should have said " from when we were succesful"

I was referring more to the cheat comment.

ME, what do you actually want? You seem to be unhappy that we have been bought by someone who seems a little...er...ruthless? Maybe that's because he is a business man first and foremost. You were unhappy, when we were owned by people who were clueless. You don't think money is an issue, yet seem to think we should be performing at the same level as those who have twice, three times, four times the money we do.
I honestly don't get what you want. You want us playing in the championship, to crowds of 1000, just as long as we don't have a 'nasty' chairman? What exactly would make you happy?

Obviously you don`t think Shudds knew what they were doing in the Kopout affair!
If you are referring to salary cap when we were found guilty, the explanation what the Bulls furnished seemed to be realistic ie Hape was playing for NZ when he sustained a nigh on season missing injury and the Bulls expected NZ to pay for the injury and it should not have affected our salary cap.

A better run, decent club?

I don't think I've ever seen a positive post by ME, its becoming rather tedious. I'm actually pretty happy with how the club is being run at this moment in time, think OK has done a pretty good job, especially with him trying to generate income through other streams than match days. Stop supporting if you're so unhappy, its not like the bulls need you, when was the last time you contributed anything to the club? I live in Manchester and work most weekends but I still try and get to Odsal as often as possible and buy the clubs merchandise because I feel it's my duty as a supporter.

Well ME you do like to read the riot act don't you...the fact that you are wrong on all fronts doesn't phase you at all does it?
Can you explain why you believe all the tosh you have written.
By the way did you know how much the Bulls overstepped the salary cap by??? 2% and we were in the company of Wigan and St Helens...hardly a cheating offence was it? Bad accounting more like.

Calling the architect of Super League. and our chairman over 16 years which anyone will tell you was the most successful part of the super league experience , and entertaining millions over the years. Your comments hardly makes you the oracle does it?
Plus the fact that 8000 plus people would dispute your silly post. Don't you realise that you are offending all those supporters, and calling them all mugs for supporting what they consider is a good team struggling against a lot of obstacles at this moment!

I'll leave you to your misery!!!

Actually, yes it was.

I think this is the most ridiculous posts I've read on here. I could go through every team in the league and could make a post of why they are the most hated in the league.

I don't think we're anywhere near one of the most hated clubs. If we did a poll I think we come towards the bottom. Partly due to the fact we're not a force on the field anymore so some fans have taken pity on us.

Anyway who cares if we're not liked. This isn't the x-factor it's rugby league!