and to help get the thread back on topic:

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Sounds like the pledge bus outing at the weekend had a positive impact.

Are many people from on here going up to Odsal next Monday for the announcement? I think me and a couple of the others I know that pledged are going to head up for a pint (assuming bars are open) and to toast a cheap season ticket!

Wouldn't it be great if the club used that event to make a major signing announcement (if there is to be one) or announced that Orford is staying to further ensure that the pledgers cough up the money for their membership.

But the website is still not showing the current total

well to quote mr hood from pledge letter club sent out to season ticket holder who hadnt signed up yet.



would certainly surprise pretty much all of us if orford trotted out on monday to announce the pledge total.



seriously though be interesting to hear what these surpises are we're being promised. Gotta halves signings surely even if they do come after pledge deadline.

[url=http://www.bradfordbulls.co.uk/news/4968/PLEDGEOMETER%20TO%20BE%20REMOVEDExplained here[/url.

Sorry that no one took the trouble earlier to explain this to a constructive and positive poster from another club.

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Mick for God's sake schadenfreude like that is hardly likely to encourage City supporters! More likely antagonise them. The last thing this plummeting city needs is for its soccer team to drop out of the league.

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Mick Gledhill, you are the delusional one. I've said it before and I'll say it again. All this antagonisation between City and Bulls fans helps NO-ONE, do you understand? I'm a City and a Bulls fan, extremely proud to be both, and pushing one City/Bulls fan away from their team would not drive them towards a completely different sport.

So shut up, and lets focus on the Bulls hitting 10k. And FWIW, City are fourth bottom.

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I think we'll do the 10k now after the positive take up after the weekend.

Finishing 3rd is reasonable. 4th is cr4p even when you cheat your way to the semis

Mick, if I were you I'd go edit that provocative text in your post above. Aaron has treated you gently; some others will not, and the results could be very counterproductive. If you want what's best for the Bulls, go wind up someone else in RL lke the potless Whinos ! It keeps their fekkwittery off the streets responding to you - a real public service - and will give them something to get stirred up about (fekkwits) or laugh at (sound loiners) now they don't have a game for ages...!

Don't have a go at the Bantams! They and us are fighting the same bloody demons ffs! The demons that sit over this city like a bloody great dark shroud: apathy, and being the poor relation in the waknerage of a Whitehall-created farce of a "Leeds city region".

As penance Mr Moderator, all those hand bag waving posters above should be made to double their pledges!.....

Some will notice that some posts have been removed that go of onto the anti BCFC stuff.

Mick, please note that any future anti BCFC crap will just be deleted if I see it.

Thanks to all for keeping on topic.

Whatever the Bulls are doing to promote this pledge idea isn't enough - I asked my parents (who live in Bfd) if they considered 'pledging', and neither of them had heard of the scheme! Especially as both are RL fans and my Dad has even been known to attend post-match functions at Odsal in recent years. Has there been any television exposure? I suspect they are not the only ones who do not know about it.

I don't know how you can have failed to hear about it if you're in Bradford and a Bulls fan.

I don't live in Bradford any more and I've seen it all over the place. It's been in the T&A on more than one occasion (according to my parents who do live there), there are billboards up, it's plastered around Odsal itself, it's been all over the internet, it's been mailed out to anyone on the mailing list, there's been a bus travelling round, there are car stickers.......

If you don't leave your house and don't read the local papers, then maybe you might have missed it. But I'm not sure what else the club can do to get the word out. Television advertising is a bit costly!

TV adverts also go region wide which is much bigger than the bulls target audience.

it would be quite amusing to see what advert they could come up with though

Yes the adverts would also go into Batley and Dewsbury.................I dread to think what they might say ...

The one or two who see it as an issue would go apoplectic! Would be fun to watch them.

Hell, they'll be calling for a TV blackout in the affected towns! Can't imagine anyone calling for such a thing...

Nobody would be so daft as to suggest that. Especially not anyone in a prominent position at an actual club!

You could paint the message on every front door in Bradford and some people 'won't have heard anything about it'. Obviously there is always more than can be done, but with a limited budget I think the club has spread the net fairly wide. Stuff in the t&a, on the radio, leaflets through doors, on the Bulls website, in RL press and buses driving around Bradford. I can believe some non RL fans might have missed the coverage but every RL fan I have spoken to from other clubs has heard of the scheme.

In Australia NRL clubs advertise far outside of their local areas, why would it be a problem for Bradford? (other than money). In Port MacQuarie (NSW) a few months back they had adverts on TV for the Gold Coast Titans... (miles away). What about a spot on the local BBC news or Calendar with someone like Hood being interviewed and saying they are offering fantastic deals (don't have to give details to get round BBC not doing advertising etc)?

Not everyone reads the T&A, and internet and Odsal coverage is likely to only appeal to existing fans. Is the aim to bring back all the Bullmania era support, or attract new fans? If the latter I doubt the current advertising regime is going to bring many in. FWIW I think that all SL clubs do a poor job in selling the game to new fans, relying far too much on existing fans to spread the word.

Just to reassure everyone that the message IS getting out. Last Saturday the manager of a well known tile outlet in Morecambe asked me about it as I was wearing a Bulls hoody - he isn't even a RL fan!

[size=50(He is the best mate of Ricky Sheriffe's Brother-in-law though, so that might explain it!)[/size

Now you're being disengenuous. Oz has a population less than that of Greater London. So Clubs are going to advertise way out of their cachement area. If you were in Port you will know that the nearest NRL Club is Newcastle a 4 hour drive down or if you fancy Brisbane 5+ hours drive up. Most NRL fans travel only to their home games or if in the Sydney area will travel to the away games!

to be honest bbc arent that stupid and would see right through us doing a piece like that. It would be advertising pure and simple as cheap season tickets is hardly news to the general public. For the extra exposure TV advertising would cost commercially it simply wouldnt bring in enough extra pledges to cover the cost of the advertisement.