the gratton creator was its usual lifeless depressing hole today!!!bar the noisy 200 salford fans rejoicing in a well earnt win drowning out the bulls drum trumpet and drag cars with there big bores missfiring round the odsal tarmac!!

Great post. More exclamation marks next time though.

didnt think they could still afford the glorified go-karts?
mind you they didn't get to use them last time i was there

Who is the Gratton Creator

they must waste so much of there income on fuel with all those motors racing up and down in front of the main stand!plus the off so hard looking bloke driving the motor in front of the masses of salford fans today really made a pleb of himself when he stalled is glorified go-kart!!

Wow, you have an inferiority complex!

Bilko - The Mystic Meg Of Rugby League?

And your "crowds" are?

Pathetic post.

given they have got the numbers in the past then there is clearly 13K+ RL fans in Bradford who would support them. The gurus of marketing and game day experience have totally lost their way and need to find the spark that made them the summer club of the 90's. An exciting team wouldn't go amiss either!

The crowds have never recovered from the move to Valley Parade. They took a drop which was expected to recover once they returned to Odsal - that never happened.

The marketing has never moved on since Deakin and combined with a weaker side the incentive to watch the Bulls simply isn't there for the floating supporter.

For me a merger with Halifax and a move to the now complete Shay would be a good move - reduced overheads, reduced stadium costs etc.

Not that daft in some respects. I feel a merged side playing in a stadium with it's halfway line on the municipal border somewhere in Shelf could have been a goer. Fax have got their own problems right now though.

The average crowds in the first year back at Odsal were higher than in the last three years at Odsal before the move to Valley Parade.

Crowds started dropping off after the first year back at Odsal.

1996 10,346
1997 15,159
1998 13,022
1999 13,212
2000 14,520
2001 13,000 (VP)
2002 13,912 (VP)
2003 14,939
2004 13,495
2005 12,786

....which are? Pray enlighten us.

5000 increase from 96-97.

Keep Bradford at Odsal because we need stadiums that take us back to the 80s. If every club moved into a modern stadium nothing would be nostalgic anymore.

1880's?

Thats rubbish as usual Damo

The only way RL can move forward is modern stadiums. No one wants to pay £22 to get soaking wet at Odsal

As we used to sing to them during there moment in the spotlight "where was you when you was ?"

It's the coaches fault!!! Sack him

Oh he's only been in charge a week!!!

Must be some other reason then.

I know!!!





















It's the match officials fault for the Bulls demise



No hang on!!!!

















It's the fans fault for not coming the the gates in big enough numbers






Hmmm













I know who is not at fault!!!!!!!!!!!




THE PLAYERS!!!!


I mean they are doing the job they are well paid to do are they not

People don’t want to pay £22 to see mediocre matches. Ok you’ll get your hardcore who’ll watch rugby league whoever is playing week in, week out. However come Grand Final time whenever it be the challenge cup or super league you’ll get many rugby league fans coming out in they droves because they’ll be expecting a good rugby league match.

It’s a well known fact that the better the teams = better the attendances.

Look at how many rugby league and Leeds Rhinos fans turn out for the world club challenge for example.

A big problem in this country is people aren’t very accepting of the weather that we have here and we let it dictate our lives. Its like people haven’t ever heard of raincoats or anything like that really!

But that goes to show you what good marketing can do for a club

Oh definitely, don't think we'll ever see that percentage rise again by a club (in the space of one season like that!

).

Remember having that 1996-97 Compaq home shirt, absolute classic, bet it's still the biggest selling SL shirt to date (e.g. with the two Wembley trips they had those two years).

Have got a 'Super League 1997 Season Review' VHS tape somewhere, hard to believe their crowd yesterday when you consider back then they took over 8000 to Sheffield on a Saturday night Sky game.

Sponsor bust, lost friendlies, early NRC exit, cup cock up, coaching issues.

Do you mean the [i18[/i80's?

before I posted.