www.superleague.co.uk/report.php?id=3089717 Wats gone wrong!??! 14k for the whinoes, then only 8.5k for wire We complain about us at the moment and what noble is doing but just look at the legacy he left, and has been continued, at bradford. Things could be worse!! I worry for bradford though....are we going to see them go back to the pre-super league days of 5k crowds at odsal

www.superleague.co.uk/report.php?id=3089717 Wats gone wrong!??! 14k for the whinoes, then only 8.5k for wire We complain about us at the moment and what noble is doing but just look at the legacy he left, and has been continued, at bradford. Things could be worse!! I worry for bradford though....are we going to see them go back to the pre-super league days of 5k crowds at odsal

I think the term is 'glory hunters'

It's like they don't even care what the crowds are. It's a shame because I remember when there used to be 17k when we played them and over 20k against Leeds.

They will be after bringing Noble back........

Straight swap for Mcbanana?

Just posted this on the bratfut forum.....

pray it happens!! Would be great for both clubs IMO.

Who was it who nobby fell out with at bratfut tho? and is he still there? Would it be an option for him to go back.

Was going to say id happily drive him myself, but nobby being so committed to the wigan cause still lives in bratfut anyway!!

Granted Mcnamara is bad but i would do a straight swap - noble for Krusty the Clown if it was offered.....id be relatively happy with that....cant be any worse can we?!?

You will after "Bend your back" to see that happen

Warrington's travelling support was crap too.

Bullmania was getting tired as a format about five years ago!

Playoff's 2007 - Only 9K on yet over 2,500 from Wigan.
For a bloody playoff game!!

Bradford can't afford it and Nobby slagged their board off big time when he left.

I feel a bit sorry for Bradford, to be honest.

Okay, a small percentage of their fans behaved like absolute pigs after that second Grand Final when they beat us (that bunch on the tram had 'glory-hunting, part time scum' written all over them), but that's not generally the rule with Bradford fans. Plus it was good to see a traditional old name well up there, and to see someone in West Yorkshire finally rocking the Leeds boat.

Sadly, I think the rumours about their financial weaknesses are probably true. I've no love for Macnamara after he tried to stick it to us over the 'Terry Newton affair', but again, he isn't really part of the Bradford furniture (isn't he a Hull man by origin?). I enjoyed the Bullmania business - they were the first club to really challenge Wigan during our period of dominance (Leeds and Saints got in on the act later, after we'd catastrophically weakened), so I'm hoping they aren't on a terminal downturn. They don't deserve to be.

I left that game at half time because 50 or so Wigan 'fans' decided they wanted to knock lumps out of each other.

I hope things get sorted out at Bradford but in a sense I'm pleased some of the people who only went for the razzmattaz are no longer going, I used to hate going they weren't proper fans and it was obvious this would happen. I hope someone rich can sort things out and attract fans who are interested in the game

No he didn't he slagged of one person and that was the CEO at the time Gareth Davies who's no longer at the club.

I stand corrected, my apologies.

well maybe the fact there is no relegation is an issue


in 2006 the wigan fans rallied behind the team when relegation was a possibility


the bulls fans have probably wrote this season off, and will just reappear at the beginning of next season

To be honest I've never had an issue with Bradford. Even with the ridiculous Bullmania hype I could never really hate them.

Maybe its the special place - dilapidated though it is - that Odsal remains, due to its history; its second only to CP. But unlike CP its still here.

There are hardly any big, traditional RL grounds left. Headingley has never to me really felt like a true RL ground because of the cricket ground, KR is too small.

The similarities with Wigan towards the end of the CP era must be worrying for Bradford. Like Wigan at that stage, the massive overspend on trying to improve an old ground has given them serious financial problems just as performances and crowds have dipped (very alarmingly in Bradford's case).

I feel sorry for the true Bradford fans who are as loyal as any fan, however I cant help but feel some satisfaction about Bradford at the moment based purely off the antics of some of the smug glory hunting fans that they attracted at the height of their powers.

Just to add, i'm not sure if the collapse is running through the club from top to bottom but the Bulls couldn't even field a reserve team last night and the game had to be cancelled...

not very professional in the least

If your so up with he info why was that.

Ill play for em!!!

Bullmania to bullemia in 5 years eh?

IMO

Poor results on the field = Poor attendances

No superstars= Poor attendences

Wigan need to be very careful as this could still happen to us. Glory fans or not they are the people we need to attract to our games and the only way to do it is by winning and having a quality team out.

I went to Odsal a few years ago and there were only 9,000 there that night.

Deffo, players like Trent Barrett put extra bums on seats for sure, can you imagine the crownds if we bought someone like Billy Slater, they would go up ten fold!

And we never had any of them??