"How"? Well, we afforded it this year, and as next year we'll be on double the money, not even counting ticket sales, with a much reduced salary bill, why wouldn't we be able to?

They will only open the seats next season at Odsal.

Apparently not according to gledhill. Full ground will be open for majority of games.

We'll need the full ground to accommodate the hordes from Keighley on their annual trip out of town.

Seriously though I thought we would only open full ground for top two or three in terms of travelling attendances. Obviously green done his sums and thinks it viable for more than that. Wonder if he's got his own company providing stewarding next year, in which case he might be doing that at cost and hoping to make up difference with bigger attendances.

I remember when you used to laugh at Huddersfield ( who are now a massive club compaired to the dulls) crowds and now your into Keighley, how the not so mighty have fell.

Lets hope we stay up and I will enjoy my trip to the super dome. I suspect you won't.

Huddersfield a massive club? They have crowds of 5000, no trophies, yes they are in SL so if that is the only criteria, yes, they are massive

The word is fallen. I know trolls have low IQs but that just makes me feel embarrassed for you.

We still get better crowds than them ha ha

I hate the truth so I will resort to personal abuse?

Huddersfield are not a massive club

Yes, they have a better team than us at the moment - but 'a massive club', definitely not

Slightly off topic but when the Bulls invented superleague I noticed all these other clubs copied us in changing their names. Leeds rhinos, Warrington wolves, New York Giants etc.. Some more successfully than other Halifax for example being a complete and utter failure.

But this Keighley club who seem obsessed with us have a name that sounds good. Keighley Cougars. I like it it's certainly a good example of a club taking our superleague ideas and doing it well.

That certainly seems to sum you up, yes.

They should cut out the personnel abuse & laugh at you're posts.

Don't count on it.

If Keighley avoid the drop...and with five going down it's far from certain at the mo. Not sure it'll take over from the rivalry with Leeds but a Keighley derby would be good locally.

Bradfords proper local derby has and always will be Halifax IMO only really became Leeds because Halifax Sweaty Sox went down lol

To be honest, in RL with lots of local games always on the agenda, the 'derby' concept has never really had the same resonance as in, say soccer. Going back to the old Yorkshire and Lancashire leagues almost every game would have qualified.

It's come to the fore more since having 2 [or 3 divisions, though I don't think Fax have been in the top section as consistently as us and Leeds to generate the same great 'derby' rivalry. I mean, we always want to beat all opposition but you never hear fans singing, "we all 8Fax", do you?

Thats because Fax havent been in the top flight for quite a while now and the majority of fans that sing "we all h8 leeds sc*m" is the younger generation that have only really experienced leeds derbies, leeds now does seem bigger as its grown over the years.

I wonder how many of the "younger generation" of fans that now attend remember,

1997 Halifax Blue Sox Vs Bradford Bulls @ Thrum Hall

Bulls win 30-26 after an epic comeback

Back then rivallry with Fax was far greater than it was with Leeds (although beating them in the CC Semi finals was a treat - especially Brian Mac smacking 3 leeds players LOL)

However this is only my opinion and how i remember things.

Who was the fax player show boating before walkin in for an unoppose in the first half?

I also remember a game at the shay in 2002 for some reason but I don't know why

I think it depends who you ask really - and like you say, what you remember. You say the Leeds rivalry wasn't really there until Fax went down, but we got the - then - SL record crowd against Leeds and I remember the rivalry being pretty fierce and that was four years before Fax were relegated.

I can't really speak about life pre SL, as I was born in the mid 80s and although I did attend some Northern games my memories are naturally strongest in the SL era. However I remember asking my parents/grandparents about the Fax thing even in the late 90s, and they always said our main rivals have always been Leeds and Fax have always wished they were ours.

I think, should Keighley stay up - I would still think our bigger rivalry will be with Fax in that division.

Edit - After I posted this I was thinking about the comment about how "all kids growing up in the SL era hated Leeds" - as I was in secondary school for most of the glory years, I can confirm most guys I knew that supported the Bulls viewed Saints as our biggest rivalry and weren't that bothered about Leeds. Bumped into one of them last Christmas and he still viewed Saints as the biggest rivals!!

It's always been Leeds for me.

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I remember the game, well it [i:5crwm5n1was[/i:5crwm5n1 pretty unforgettable wasn't it, Lol, and though I definitely do remember someone 'showboating', I can't actually remember who - though I'm pretty sure he wasn't doing it [i:5crwm5n1after[/i. Certainly, back in the fifties and sixties Leeds won a lot of 'pots' and always seemed to have the wood over us.

Think it was Asa Amone that did the showboating for fax that day. Didn't he look a prat at the end of the game ☺

It was Asa Amone holding the ball out as if to day 'come and get it' on the way to the line. One of the greatest comebacks I can ever remember, very sweet on the last trip to Thrum Hall.

At least one of the holiday fixtures at Christmas/New Years or Easter were against Fax when I was growing up. At least when they were both in the same divisions of course.

Historically Leeds had the Hunslet rivalry in the post WWII boom period of the game plus Wakefield and Cas who would be considered fierce derby rivals, especially in fallow periods for Northern.

It will be refreshing to not hear the 'go get yer father's gun' BS from the Headingley mob, or that horrible soccer song they sing for a year or two.