They give us all a bad name, funny our most aggressive fans are part- timers! Fair play to Bradders you didn't do a Wigan and storm off in a huff at the full-time whistle!

Not condoning it was warrington fans where goading, but has someone has put on another thread it was the bradford fan who hit out

Which Bradford fan hit out?

Yes the club serioulsy needs to get rid of these scroats once + for all as these dog turds are giving the decent supprters a bad name.

its happended every game home and away theres always the idiots who think they can handle there beer but clearly cant

half of the thugs are young teenagers

Too true, was a more tense and exiciting game than I was expecting.

Seems like we have attracted a few idiots over the last year or two, we had a few on our coach unfortunately, can't handle the booze.

Even in the hayday of Bull mania when you were the best supprted club and away support I can add, we always had a good banter with Bulls supporter.

No need for it we should just enjoy the moment.

Great post Stevie.


I'm sure most of us won't tar you all with the same brush - after all it is a small section of your support.

Bradford support was shocking today.

Its very poor for the image of the sport on national TV to see a home team with such poor support. What happened to Bull-Mania ?

If you listened to that bloke with the mic would you want to turn up every week? And each player having their own tune so it takes 15 minutes to read out the team line up? It is funny once or twice a season, but every week?

i agree completely with people who cant handle there beer. remember at a home game a lad (looked nowhere near 18 or over) drinkin with his pals through the match at half time fell over on the stairs and had to be helped up. one thing it bad as it a family stadium, secondly that really is dangerous for him and fellow supporters something needs to be done.

Why not make it age 21/23 as a minimum in the ground for alcohol, this would possibly stop some of

them,

He thought he was Tim Westwood the way he was talking.

As for the alcohol situation stadiums do operate an over 21 as minimum and Bradford had a sign up, but people drink before going to the stadium. At The HJ last week I got asked for I.D and I'm 27 in July this year, the girl serving me didn't look 18

It went when the Bulls ran out of money, other clubs (like you) caught up and then overtook us in the money stakes, and the Bulls stopped winning all the time. Seems like too many of the erstwhile fans then found other things to do



Not replacing all the kids and families that were attracted in the early years of SL - money again, no doubt - has much to do with it.

some prats in front of me, a mixture of ed teenagers and ed men, one in particular shouting abusive comments and taunts about crossbows. dont need them these are the so called (not fans in my eyes)fans that give us a bad name. Me had great banter with bulls fans and was shaking hands at the end, when I Checked my Pulse at the end because of holding my breath for so long, thank god for that final hooter

got to agree lots go my school
seems fun for a 16 year old lad, have a few cheap cans of crappy super brew, get to bradford for £2, get in for FREE with your season ticket and taunt a few bradforders. it amazes me how there parents actually allow them to do it.

To be fair it's not all young folk who are idiots. I came out of the ground on my way back to the coach and some bloke about 50 in a black BMW and wearing a bulls shirt with his wife sat next to him came flying like a formula 1 driver up to a T junction I was crossing. He was driving much to fast considering there were a lot of pedestrians including elderly people,women and children in the area. I was in the process of crossing the road and honestly thought he was going to run me over. He braked sharply to a stop at the end of the street and missed my leg by about 2 inches at the most. Then just sat staring at me before racing off as soon as I had cleared the front of his car. Had he hit me I would have called the police and had the idiot breathalised. Behaviour like that from a supposed adult is just not acceptable.

sorry seemed a bit of a generalisation on my behalf, just seems you get loads of people my age going ' for the pi$$ up' shame they dont actually watch the match. It gives us all a bad name, was speakin to someone last week and said i go to the away matches. Their immediate response was ' Oh your not ones of those who go on the coach on your own are you'. But unfortunately there is no way of stopping it

Something is definitely rotten at Odsal. I appreciate that a lot of the glory hunters who jumped on the "Bradford Bulls" bandwagon in the early days of Super League will have trailed off recently as their era of dominance is over (although they won the Grand Final as recently as 2005 and were runners up the previous year so it's hardly a distant memory) but they've gone well recently and were playing at home in the Challenge Cup quarter final. They weren't playing an 11th V 12th Super League contest in September with absolutely nothing riding on it so to only attract around 3,000 home fans was scandalous.

I'm not knocking the ones who were there, as I assume all those who have posted in this thread were, but the club need a serious inquest into why so many have fallen away so quickly. To be outnumbered by away fans (I don't know if they definitely were or not but it certainly looked like it to me) is embarrassing but to that end they're lucky it's us they were playing because had they drawn Catalans at home the attendance could potentially have been lower than 4,000.

From our point of view it's a lesson worth noting too. We've had a fleeting glimpse of success - nowhere near the level Bradford had yet - and have attracted a feel good factor and increased attendances as a result, but success doesn't last forever and retaining that support once it dries up is another challenge entirely.

Seems ridiculous that before the game I was estimating a 15k attendance.

7k is awful for a quarter-final that had one of the team's playing at home. People are moaning about the impact on crowd numbers should a semi be played in France. Well it can't be much worse than yesterday's attendance.

Good post that, Dropkick Murphy.

As I said elsewhere, you did not outnumber the home fans. You get a better impression when stood well away from the Rooley Avenue terrace. Do a bit of maths...40-odd coaches at 50-ish a coach, plus those who travelled independently. But you sure came reasonably close. Scandalously close. I was totally embarrassed with the Bulls fans' "Turnout" yesterday. I imagine the club was mortified. And as for what the team felt...

Bulls have sod all money for marketing, so that will not have helped. Plus Bradford is a pretty depressed place now financially, and at £20 a head to sit in the stand (as I paid) when you can see it on TV for free must have been a big factor for many people. Those that sit next to me are pretty keen and very long-standing and totally level-headed fans, but they did not go - three adults £60 is a fair bit of money?

Maybe the difference is that there is a good feeling around Warrington, and you guys go to matches with reasonable expectation of winning now. Too many Bulls fans go with expectations of losing - the long run of depressing home defeats last year (we did better on the road) probably scarred many. We also have a soccer club that issued extremely cheap season tickets, and got far and away the biggest crowds in the lowest division as a result (still did pants though) and for sure that took some support away.

The loss to Leeds the week before will not have helped. There were a LOT of "lapsed" fans there, first game for a while, nice day, team in with a chance. Then Leeds played a second half as good as any they had played all year, and many of those "fans" were streaming out with ten to go. You could hear people saying "same old same old" when in fact the only real difference between the sides - as it was on Sunday - was that we have a thinner and in key areas weaker squad, and where injuries to key players (including several like Lynch and Orford who were carrying injuries and should not have played) hit us disproportionately hard. We ran the Champions close, and the cup-holders even closer, which in my book is not a bad performance. But I fear too many lapsed supporters just expect wins. Embarrassing.

But I feel the biggest problem of all is the city itself. I've been castigated by some for saying it, but its dying around us. Just look at the city "centre". The city is dying from the centre. Warrington, by contrast, is a "new town" and the whole place (been there a fair few times generally not just for rugby) always strikes me as confident and looking to the future.

And Rugbychick...the crowd was only a bit worse than I feared - 10k would have been very good given recent turnouts.

Excellent post. Very interesting to read - particularly about the City's recent fortunes - such a shame as the City Centre has a lot of interesting historic buildings.

I preusme the fact that it was the start of half term and that at times it looked like the heavens were going to open didn't help.

To be honest I don't really follow Bradford's crowd number so yesterday was a genuine shock. 15 mins before kick off we were all looking round at each other, asking where the Bradford fans were. It's a real shame that the fans have fallen away so quickly and I'm sure the reasons you've posted above hold true for many of those that have stopped attending. This is something that concerns me about Wire fans too. As Dropkick said: we've a lot of fans who had materialised out of nowhere since we won something. I just hope they don't all fade away if we don't repeat the success this year.

adeybull i do feel for you we have a new ground purpose built and all stands are covered, you ground is steeped in history but its old and tired i think thats some of the problems aswell and £20 nicker to sit down in that stand is a bit much we only paid £12 at the galpharm i think with your current finacial plight you have to move to valley parade

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