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A lot of personal attachment for me with the Bulls (like so many):

1/ My first job was working in the shop at the Bulls while in 6th form. If you had a squad number on your shirt when they were announced at the start of Super League, I was the person who printed them that first year (96)

2/ Coming back from 26-6 down at Halifax to win 26-30 - the best comeback ever. Especially when stood with the Fax faithful.

3/ I met my other half at the Bulls and we've been married 11 years this time - we can't be the only ones.

4/ Every Grand Final we've reached despite the end result - to be part of such an occasion was magnificant

5/ Winning the Challenge Cup at Murrayfield and Cardiff

6/ One final (you may think quite sad) thing. At the Bulls match against Leeds in May 2010 we were expecting our second child and were stuck on choosing a boys name. From a try scorer at that match we decided on a name there and then, and our son, born later that year, was named after that player.

From the posts I've read on here and my own experiences, the Bulls have somehow become entwined with all our lives. They just can't cease to exist. They just can't.

Good job Tevita had left by May 2010!!!!!

Who did you name him after?

I'm intrigued too!
Our kids were going to be named Jimmy and Bernard after Bulls players, luckily for them though, they were both girls!

He's called Elliott, after Mr Whitehead.

We did like the name of course, but wouldn't have thought of it if he hadn't scored!

With the benefit of hindsight, maybe Tevita would have been good - he would have been the only one in his class...

this is my first post on here, why are the bulls worth saving ?, after years of being told that this is the year we are going to Wembley by my Father, after watching them lose 70 odd 12 against Wigan in the semi Final, watching Terry Holmes making his ill fated debut, seeing my favourites leave for other clubs, Hanley, Skerritt, Newlove... disappointment after disappointment.... then one Saturday afternoon in early spring in Huddersfield 1996 the dream came true... beating Leeds in that semi final, being hugged by complete strangers with 10 mins to go, knowing after years of disappointment we had made it.... seeing familiar faces of people you didn't know their name, but the same faces who had been through the same disappointments with you from being a young lad to man... that's why.. that feeling is worth £100 of my money 1000 times over. priceless

I was born and raised in Leeds, my family weren’t really Rugby League fans and Leeds United were my main sporting interest, winning the league in 1992 when I was 8. Around that time, my cousin had started playing for Northern – and I was very excited to see that he was playing on the telly. The opposition was Wigan, the venue was Burnden Park and our Alex was playing at full back. I decided then that I would support Bradford in rugby, but I didn’t know too much about it. I remember watching ‘Scrumdown’ on telly with my cousin, Alex’s brother, but that was about it. I went to my first game in 1994, a Friday night Sky game at Odsal against Castleford. Northern won and I remember it was very cold and running down the terracing near the tunnel when Northern scored.
I went to a couple of other games, but one game really got me ‘hooked’ - the defeat of St Helens in 1997 the week after the Challenge Cup final. Odsal was absolutely buzzing and like nothing that I had experienced before. As I got a bit older, I started going to more games on my own – I got a couple of my friends from school to go to games too – but most RL fans at my school were Leeds fans, so rivalry was fun. I cadged lifts and took numerous complicated bus journeys to Odsal and Valley Parade over from Horsforth.
The first final I went to was the 1999 Grand Final, gutted. I went to the 2000 Challenge Cup final at Murrayfield and the five consecutive finals. I went to Uni in Manchester from 2002 to 2006, so it worked out pretty well. I can still remember stomping through Hulme the night after Joynt’s Voluntary Tackle, sulking.

I’m so proud to be a Bull and it’s a grand old club, great young players coming through, a brilliant set of supporters – loads of people from in and around Bradford who are bonded by the red, amber and black. It is too much to lose.

I would miss the Bulls greatly & opportunity to post on this messageboard - I assume no Bulls means no RAB

It's been a constant in my life for nearly 40 years.
It has brought me more joy than anything other than family.
My whole life is punctuated by great rugby moments- success and otherwise.
Met my other half there. Married 15 years this time. Cut short our honeymoon to be at Wembley 97.
My kids now adore the club and the game.
Because quite simply I love them.

Great post - echoes so many of my memories - especially Wigan at Burnden park - got really really drunk that night and had to pay a big pnalty to the other half

Excellent post.

If you do a google search for "youtube bradford v leeds 1996" on the Duckman 01274 channel you'll find highlights of that magical day....you might even see yourself hugging a stranger!

It's unfortunate that our last period of success just (and only just) pre-dated Youtube. There are many great moments missing that, a year or two later, would be preserved for public posterity.

There are quite a few on youtube if you look about, and that 1996 semi was from my own video recording, which I've transfered to digital/dvd so I don't lose it. I intended to put lots of these moments on one youtube channel for just that purpose....only done one so far...if we go under and reform I might have to take it a bit more seriously and get some sort of online repository sorted properly of clips for people to view.

There are a lot, yes. Yours stands out, as does the Middlesex 7's final.

Can't find any Grand Final clips, and the only WCC game I can find (against Wests) is several videos of a few seconds each shot from a mobile phone in the stands. In fact the only final that's a quality recording I can see is the 2003 cup final.

Well I have "video" footage of all the bulls finals at home, inc the WCC's. If I ever get the time I'll convert, edit and post them on the same channel, hopefully it won't be all thats left soon!

That Middlesex 7's final vid is brilliant to watch back.

Often I want to turn the sound down and just watch when it comes to sport. With that I want to to turn the picture down and just listen to Guscott.

The first game I ever went to was the 1997 challenge cup final. I had played a bit of rugby at school and kept pestering my dad to take me to see a live game. We had a family friend who supported Bradford and said we could go to a game with him, but my dad said we'd be better off going to a union game and promised to take me one day. The family friend said he had two spare tickets to this final and would we please take them. My dad agreed, partly because it was at Wembley and thought it would be a good experience.

I remember arriving and my dad offered to buy me a scarf from a seller outside the ground. I sat down before the match, looking at the crowd, waiting. I remember thinking, should I shout? Should I cheer? It was the first game of sport I'd ever been to and didn't really know what to expect, and the only connection I had to Bradford as a place was that I had an unofficial scarf round my neck that said Bradford Bulls on it. Then the teams came out and the game kicked off...

We bought 2 season tickets the next day and aside from a spell down south for university, we've had them ever since.

As it has been something that all members of my family have been going to since the 1950's.
Bradford would be at a loss if the Bulls disappeared, there is the history and the pride that the Bulls bring to Bradford, what can replace that?

I'll add one as a Leeds fan.

My first game of RL was at home to Northern (a 13-6 Leeds win in 1989/90 - give or take a year, my memory isn't what it was). I also went to my first ever away match at Odsal a year or so later. So they're a part of my personal RL history, much as they are part of RLs overall history.

More recently, when the RL world changed in the mid-late 90s and I was still bemoaning the selling out and the switch to summer rugby, the Bulls were reinventing the matchday experience. They embraced the change and thrived on it. I hated it at the time, but it would change the sport. In the end, even I've had to admit that change has been for the better, however nostalgic I may be for the old days. I find it hard to believe that the club that did that could now be in danger of folding.

I hope these events lead to you recapturing that spirit and getting back to the top (well, ideally second-from-top....).

All t'best.

So you weren't around a few short years ago when Bramley rlfc played at McLarenfield and the Jug and Barrel was the Huddersfield arms?Looks like you were like a few more on here who were poached

Alas folk have been watching teams outside their local area since year dot.

I'll willingly add one as a Cougars supporter for over 50 years ...

THEY'RE NOT!

El Diablo, noticed you mentioned that "the Bulls were reinventing the matchday experience". To what are you referring? You may infact find some if not all of the innovations were part of "Cougarmania" which I see are often misrepresented as being innovations by Bradford.

As another Cougar supporter, I believe Bradford Bulls are worth saving because they are part of the Rugby League experience and the more strong teams in the sport the better. That said, I don't think the Bulls management are worthy of being in charge of a serious sports club any longer.

Which is indeed absolutely correct.

I think a sponsored fight between mad Mike O'Neil & Steve 'The Fonz' Long would draw a decent paying crowd. The winner could claim the invention of modern SL.