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| Quote ="meast"deary me
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lol - they dont travel a few miles down the road to the Galpharm now they're not guaranteed 2 points.
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| Quote ="Wadski"lol - they dont travel a few miles down the road to the Galpharm now they're not guaranteed 2 points.'"
At least we took a decent crowd when we were the better team, more than can be said for your lot!
FWIW, think the crowd bashing on here is a bit daft as I reckon most on here are the die hards who will be there home and away anyway!
But lets not let that get in the way of the banter
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| better team out of the 2 of us ........just happened to be the best team in the world and certainly our country for years......judge the 2 when we've got there
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| Quote ="Ewwenorfolk"At least we took a decent crowd when we were the better team, more than can be said for your lot!
FWIW, think the crowd bashing on here is a bit daft as I reckon most on here are the die hards who will be there home and away anyway!
But lets not let that get in the way of the banter
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How many trophies had you won then though?
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| Quote ="GIANT DAZ"just happened to be the best team in the world and certainly our country for years......judge the 2 when we've got there
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The Human species generally don't live long enough for that
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How many trophies had you won then though?'"
We can't help it if you choke at the important part of the season though!
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| Quote ="Ewwenorfolk"
We can't help it if you choke at the important part of the season though!'"
For several years that was "the weekly rounds"!
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| Quote ="Wadski"For several years that was "the weekly rounds"!'"
Right!
Now the best teams need to peak. Something your team haven't grasped yet, as they seem to do it far too early. I hope you manage it this year though, would be good to see you play as well as you have been doing in the play-offs.
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| Quote ="Ewwenorfolk"The Human species generally don't live long enough for that
We can't help it if you choke at the important part of the season though!'"
We kept being told that our squad wasnt good enough to win anything- so how does that make them chokers? Surely chokers are when you have a team full of Australian players earning a wedge of a pay check (and putting the club in financial trouble) and failing to make the playoffs- not a team full of "Wigan and saints cast offs" making them easily.
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| Quote ="jools"We kept being told that our squad wasnt good enough to win anything- so how does that make them chokers? Surely chokers are when you have a team full of Australian players earning a wedge of a pay check (and putting the club in financial trouble) and failing to make the playoffs- not a team full of "Wigan and saints cast offs" making them easily.'"
Which team is full of Australians? Which of these australians got this club into financial trouble? Would love to hear these facts.
Chokers, because your management, fans and players have all stated you are good enough to challenge for silverware. You have also proven you can be one of the best in the league on your day. When you can't back that up at the right time, that makes you chokers.
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| The Giants are on the verge of winning something and once we do it has the chance of snowballing. We now beat all the teams in sl on a consistant basis and have solid foundations to build on. Once silverware comes along then so too will the crowds. We've struggled until recent years to have a constant challanging team that has a chance of winning something and now we do its great.
The Bulls have had a sucessful peroid in sl and so too have Saints, Leeds and Wigan now could be the time of the Giants and who can begrudge us as we've finished bottom enough times but still stood by the club.
Its good for the game and good for the Town having a sucessfull club.
On a side note we brought a good following yesterday of approx 800-1000 fans. Not bad on a miserable day when the cost of admission was put up to £20, an increase of £4 if you bought direct from the Giants. The bulls only sent over 500 tickets which we shifted with no more tickets sent out.
Good luck in your fight for survival, its a shame that a City the size of Bradford has both a struggling Rugby and Football club and couldn't build a decent stadium if you put Odsal and Valley Parade together
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| Moggie, it's a shame the 800-1000 fans you brought to Odsal didn't all bother to come into the stadium - then we'd have seen them. I don't begrudge Hudds their success (excellent Coach that they have) nor would I belittle them as a club, but their support must be disappointing to you?
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| Quote ="moggie"The Giants are on the verge of winning something and once we do it has the chance of snowballing. We now beat all the teams in sl on a consistant basis and have solid foundations to build on. Once silverware comes along then so too will the crowds. We've struggled until recent years to have a constant challanging team that has a chance of winning something and now we do its great.
The Bulls have had a sucessful peroid in sl and so too have Saints, Leeds and Wigan now could be the time of the Giants and who can begrudge us as we've finished bottom enough times but still stood by the club.
Its good for the game and good for the Town having a sucessfull club.
On a side note we brought a good following yesterday of approx 800-1000 fans. Not bad on a miserable day when the cost of admission was put up to £20, an increase of £4 if you bought direct from the Giants. The bulls only sent over 500 tickets which we shifted with no more tickets sent out.
Good luck in your fight for survival, its a shame that a City the size of Bradford has both a struggling Rugby and Football club and couldn't build a decent stadium if you put Odsal and Valley Parade together
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I wouldn't say the Bulls are struggling. We're doing alright under the circumstances.
Whilst unable to really threaten Huddersfield for large parts of the game pretty much all the second half included our goal line defence was pretty good. The side Huddersfield had out was clearly a much better side than us and did a professional job in bad conditions. It looked like we were just about clinging on but we managed it and kept the scoreline down.
Brough is one of the most skillful players around and showed it on Sunday. Did everything right picking the right kicks for the conditions. We had one outlet and he was pretty much closed down. The Giants will have easier wins against better teams than us this season.
The question for us now though is how we move forward from the last three or four weeks on the field. I just hope that the off field stuff doesn't start to affect things as it's nearing pay day for May in a couple of weeks.
The crowd thing's getting a bit boring TBH.
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| Quote ="pjbull"Moggie, it's a shame the 800-1000 fans you brought to Odsal didn't all bother to come into the stadium - then we'd have seen them. I don't begrudge Hudds their success (excellent Coach that they have) nor would I belittle them as a club, but their support must be disappointing to you?'"
They didn't make as much noise as Donny the week before.
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| Quote ="hi de hi"They didn't make as much noise as Donny the week before.'"
Absolutely correct, they didn't come close.
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| didnt realise we had to !
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| You don't. The farther away the better.
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| Quote ="GIANT DAZ"didnt realise we had to !'"
Did someone say you had to?
To be fair, the Donny fans weren't getting wet through either but they certainly enjoyed their day out to the full.
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| Quote ="pjbull"Moggie, it's a shame the 800-1000 fans you brought to Odsal didn't all bother to come into the stadium - then we'd have seen them. I don't begrudge Hudds their success (excellent Coach that they have) nor would I belittle them as a club, but their support must be disappointing to you?'"
Is your support disappointing to you?
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| Bradford had 1400 at Huddersfield last year.
The only time I've personally ever seen that support for Huddersfield at Odsal was in 2006 (semi final).
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| Thought we were taking about this year not last year. Is not was.
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| I cannot believe that you Bradford fans have moaned and had a go at the support - or lack of from Huddersfield at the weekend. You should be welcoming and applauding any fans who pay money into Odsal and watch rugby there. It all goes towards your bottomless pit, oops I meant begging bowl, or no sorry wrong again fighting fund. It is amazing how wonderful these people were a couple of weeks ago when you were wanting people to donate, pledge collect money for you. I don't understand how you can all comment about supporting teams my grandad knows whether Bulls have won or lost by the way fans pass his house on a match day. He knows that you have lost if he sees people walking past when there is still 10 mins to be played. He lives in Wibsey and he sees it often. I also think that last year, and on a lot of posts this year Bulls fans have said that they are not going to games, both home and away because they think Bulls will loose, or because its on TV so will stay at home where its warm. Well unless the weather affects your health or the game is in France, true fans should be there every week regardless of the possible score. Fans should always stay to the end of the game too. Players put their lives both working and actual, on the line every time they play and regardless of whether they win, loose or draw respect should be shown to them for that.
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| Quote ="Bakewell tart"I cannot believe that you Bradford fans have moaned and had a go at the support - or lack of from Huddersfield at the weekend. You should be welcoming and applauding any fans who pay money into Odsal and watch rugby there. It all goes towards your bottomless pit, oops I meant begging bowl, or no sorry wrong again fighting fund. It is amazing how wonderful these people were a couple of weeks ago when you were wanting people to donate, pledge collect money for you. I don't understand how you can all comment about supporting teams my grandad knows whether Bulls have won or lost by the way fans pass his house on a match day. He knows that you have lost if he sees people walking past when there is still 10 mins to be played. He lives in Wibsey and he sees it often. I also think that last year, and on a lot of posts this year Bulls fans have said that they are not going to games, both home and away because they think Bulls will loose, or because its on TV so will stay at home where its warm. Well unless the weather affects your health or the game is in France, true fans should be there every week regardless of the possible score. Fans should always stay to the end of the game too. Players put their lives both working and actual, on the line every time they play and regardless of whether they win, loose or draw respect should be shown to them for that.'"
Nearly all boll0cks
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| Just wondering why it is all nearly boll0cks. Money paid in is money towards helping save the Bulls. This thread is now on page 18, and most comments are knocking huddersfield fans and the amount of support they have, and brought to Odsal. My grandad does see people wearing bulls shirts walk past his house before the end of a bulls game if they are loosing. Players do risk their lives when playing - look at the Fev player who recieved a broken jaw from a tackle made by Chase. He is out for around 10 weeks. He plays in the Championship so there is a good chance he is part time, that means not only will he miss out on playing rugby, but he will also of had to take time off from his other job. All players deserve respect, you might not like what they do, how they perform or not perform but they are people and I believe that all people deserve to be shown respect. I understand you may not agree with my post that is why we have forums and topics to be discussed, but at least explain your point of view in response to my comments.
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| We are of course extremely grateful to anyone who donated money to help keep this club going, particularly those fans of other clubs who donated.
The thing is though that the people who are engaged in this bit of japery are largely the same faces that have been doing it on these forums for years. A forum like this is an echo chamber not only in the way we all usually learn something from each other and sometimes reach some kind of group-think consensus but also in the way we poke each other in the ribs in what is a mostly friendly way. It goes both ways, there's no harm in it and any animosity there is stands out for its rarity.
Anyone who donated to the club to keep it going surely did so to help keep things as they are - not on these forums but in general. Doesn't that entail all of this too? We're not ungrateful to those who donated, and I personally am not at all upset with even those who took the time to explain why they hoped we'd go under. We're just being fans on an internet forum.
It might seem like we're kicking your asses but that's just because there's not very many of you.
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| Quote ="Bakewell tart"Some boll0cks.'"
Where to start? Don't really care if your grandad lives in wibsey and sees people leaving early. Bet that happens at every ground in every sport in the world. What the heck has that got to do with anything. Bet no one can tell the difference, win lose or draw at cougar park
You go on to make some generalisation about Bradford fans not going to games because we might lose or it's on tv - baseless - how was the keighley v Sheffield game on the radio?
Where the chuff rangi chase comes into it I don't know?? Maybe I missed it because your sentence structure was giving me a migraine
We are thankful for every £ we get from oppo fans, I've seen what you said to Hindle XIII so not really in a position to have a go are you?
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