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??

I wouldn't feel too satisfied with Bradford's decline.

Up until a couple of weeks ago, I believed that we blew them away earlier in the season because we actually played well. The truth is clearly different.

It's a worrying trend for RL as a whole, Bradford were not only a major force on the field their support home and away boosted attendances across the board.

A few years ago Warrington were also looking to push on but have also dipped on and off the field, who's to say Saints, Leeds or Wigan aren't next?

Ambitious clubs made real efforts to promote the game a few years back to push the game back upto the level of RU, but now mediocrity and a know your place attitude have taken over, ambition has been driven out of the game.

Not only that but the entire regular season is now irrelevant, clubs, coaches, fans and more importantly Sky are only concerned with the play-offs.

Salary cap (communist cap) and the promotion and relegation is (and has been said on this many a time) been watering down the quality and progress of clubs.

If you get 20,000 every game you still cant spend more than a team who gets 4000 a game.

The salary cap needs to just be half of what you earn not 1.6million and relegation should be brought back.

Its Saints V Bradford next week on sky, usually i would be looking forward to it but not any more, just another boring game.

NRL is so much better!

They must have heard you were coming.

I can't speak for when Wigan blasted every team back in the 90's as I did not start going until 2003.

What I am basing my comment off is what I have seen with some Bradford fans when they were the top team and the loyalty of the Wigan fans who stuck with the team in 2006 when things looked very , very grim. Contrast that with the non show fans at Odsal.

McNamara has surely got to be the next coach gone.

He has destroyed Bradford.

Remember all the bulls fans laughing when Noble left saying they had the next best coach in the world, universe etc etc. Wonder were they are now, they wasnt at odsal the other night anyway.

No, remind us.

gotta admit, a good friend of mine is a bulls fan, and she was over the moon when noble left, thought mcnamara was the next big thing. only one good young coach for me in sl and thats justin morgan

There was well more than 2500 that wonderful night at odsal from wigan.

Its a big shame what as happend to the attendences at odsal as they took SL to a new level at the concept of SL and now there getting 8000 for a game. Where are all them fans now that used to watch them ? I know they cant blame thier stadium as it was even worse in 1996/97.

I remember something along them lines myself.

Horrible, horrible club. Used to love playing them at JJB when they used to fillthe North stand. Seems as though they were the most glory hunting supporters in history now. Bull boy teddies and car flags spring to mind. Ugh!

Nathan Brown ??