Wildcats Demolish the Bulls in Qualifiers The second round of the Super 8 Qualifiers got underway at Belle Vue as Bradford Bulls quest for a 2016 Super League place rolled into town to take on a Wakefield Wildcats desperate to retain their own top flight position. Wakefield lost narrowly to the Salford Red Devils last week, while the Bulls were getting their campaign off to the best of starts in going to the top of the table with a big 42-10 victory over the Sheffield Eagles. READ MORE ON THIS STORY...

Wildcats Demolish the Bulls in Qualifiers The second round of the Super 8 Qualifiers got underway at Belle Vue as Bradford Bulls quest for a 2016 Super League place rolled into town to take on a Wakefield Wildcats desperate to retain their own top flight position. Wakefield lost narrowly to the Salford Red Devils last week, while the Bulls were getting their campaign off to the best of starts in going to the top of the table with a big 42-10 victory over the Sheffield Eagles. READ MORE ON THIS STORY...

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Team from a league above, at home, with basically twice as much money to spend on players, win a game?

And you seem delighted about that?

If anything, it merely goes to show that the middle 8's are just there to placate the Championship clubs who have been denied promotion through franchising.

It is not a level playing field.

They don't have twice as much money though. Including the parachute payment, Bulls got almost the full allocation of SL money this year.

Do you know what the respective salary caps are and how each club is spending them? As far as I am aware we are spending most of ours but I don't know the exact allowance compared with Wakeys and their subsequent spending.

Can you run your calculations by me, because I haven't a clue how you've got to that conclusion.

It has been a while. We need time to learn how to spend the cap again.

I presume you mean that they got all their entitlement rather than it being given to the other clubs like last year. There was no parachute money as such. The amout was based on finishing position last year and it was much less than SL clubs but much more than many Championship clubs.

I think you are mixing up Wakefield being allowed to spend to the Super League limit and Wakefield actually having money.

They've had enough money to pay off several players contracts in full (about 3months worth) and then sign several players extra for those 3 months.

With the increased central funding next year in sl, definitely worth speculating though

Unless people are lying you had a spare 80k to throw into a kitty at the start of the year. If you're not spending the cap and had left over cash is be asking Carter what he's doing. Seen as you've bought tickets to spend the season as a laughing stock before beating teams from the division below.

Perhaps if you'd gone and supported the team you allegedly support you'd have got a glimpse of the team we bought the ST to watch in the first place. No doubt your fans will be watching your full time side including ex superdooper league and NRL players what can't live with proper superdooper league teams hammer the part timers again next season with a bit of luck that is, instead of worrying about our finances you'd be better of worrying about yours and buy some decent players, keep your chin up old boy.

The clue was in the word Boycott. Look it up.

If we can't live with superleague teams it's something we've got in common with you chumps.

Well done though beating a side that spends half as much as you in players. That's a big achievement you should use it to chat up the ladies.

What gets me is before Wakey won Bradford there was no mention of money/players etc, same with Leigh fans . Wakey were/is crap and neither Bradford or Leigh would have problem beating them. Whats changed ???

The first comment in my wakefield away thread mentions it. I said I was interested to see how we would go against a side spending nearly a million more than us on players

At no point have I mentioned we'd beat wakefield and if you go back three weeks I pointed out that there is no way that wakefield wouldn't be playing superleague next year.

Don't worry the good people of wakefield will be turning up on their tens again next year to whine and moan about councillor Box. Whilst the team slump from one defeat to another. While we might be in the Chanpiknship again but it's better than getting thumped every week

Wakefield's team and coach for one thing! (or should I say ten or eleven things?

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As someone on our (Leigh) forum has pointed out, we "only" (!) have to beat the other three Championship sides to appear in the 4th v 5th play-off. That still applies equally to you guys.

Wakefield's team and coach for one thing! (or should I say ten or eleven things?

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Didn't seem to be a problem for Bradford or Leigh over the past few weeks…….

It seems to me that the Bradford fans are still talking about how hard done they are, a bit like last year, when they were moaning about being short changed.
Don't think the Bradford line up has changed that much from the one that beat us home and away last year.
The only thing that has changed is Lowes honeymoon period has ended and when things aren't going well, he buys another player.
Bradford got a big squad and no U21s to play them in.

The stark reality is that Bradford are now a 'small' team, in the lower division and suffer the same disadvantages that all the other championship teams have had to.
Wakefield were in the same position in 1998 and managed to crawl out and then survive at the higher level despite all the odds. Best you can hope is that you take your chance when the opportunity arrives.

Bleat all you want, nobody is listening, and nobody has ever listened.

But you ARE listening aren't you? And so are so many other smug trin fans, otherwise this thread wouldn't have so many condescending comments upon it.

...is Wakefield council's reply on Newmarket.

Can I just say that regardless of who won last weekend, and regardless of who has SL status or not, I'd much rather be a Bull.

Imagine supporting a dying club in a stadium that's falling apart where your only taste of success was a play off spot in 2004. I've supported a team of World Champions in my lifetime. You've won one f*cking game Wakey after an absolute joke of a season! Go back to your holes!

So...ner!

They've now beaten a Championship team and I seem to remember they beat a Super League team............although that might have been last year.