I'm not sure how big a loss it would really be for Super League to be honest. Leeds have their traditional rivalry with a resurgent Castleford as an alternative big derby fixture. I was reading a thread on the Rhinos board and someone made a great point that apart from the first decade of Super League Bradford have never really been a big, dominant team. I don't really see many fans of other clubs lamenting our demise, they're too concerned with the here and now of their teams. The Bulls have had their day, we enjoyed it but it couldn't be continued and built upon long term. So we go down and either go bust or start a new chapter amongst the sport's also-rans playing at somewhere like Horsfall.

you wont be going there because there will be no team in Cumbria in the league but there will be teams like Keighley and Halifax will love seeing you at there place.

The point about us would have been a more reasonable one if Leeds had themselves been any sort of 'big dominant team' beyond the early 70s, but they haven't until quite recently - indeed, I'm sure we actually have the better record of the two for the years in question.



Not that it matters a jot for the future of course, Leeds can go to Cas as their big derby - as long as [ithey[/i remain in SL, but they, of course, have been as up and down as most. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter at all which teams form SL, the league will sail quite serenely on without us, with whichever clubs are involved in it, just as it did during the time Wigan were in division 2.

The Club has only existed with the Bulls name for the duration of SuperLeague and for most of that League's history have been a " dominant side". As Northern the immediate post war period into the 50's was a time of success.

The recent posts from discerning fans of Leeds, Wire, Wigan , Cas Widnes both Hull clubs Salford and Saints may not represent a majority view of their fans but I suspect that many RL supporters would agree that SL representation of one of the big cities on the M62 corridor is desirable. Certainly Hetherington and McManus went public with that view during the last mess.

C'mon the bulls

'A resurgent Castleford'? They've won 8 games.



Even with a really good team to support 50% of the Super league couldn't sell out a semi or final ticket allocation. Super League needs big clubs and as Hetherington said recently, most of the clubs in SL can never be as big as Bradford.

As a Cas fan, been their twice worn the tee-shirt,have faith thats what true fans do,keep going to the games it may take a couple of years but you will ride high again, the first time we were down i was at the game against Wakefield that saw us go down, all of the Cas fans gave the team a standing ovation as they left the field,thats what true fans do thick and thin they stand by their team until the good times roll again.

As a Cas fan, been their twice worn the tee-shirt,have faith thats what true fans do,keep going to the games it may take a couple of years but you will ride high again, the first time we were down i was at the game against Wakefield that saw us go down, all of the Cas fans gave the team a standing ovation as they left the field,thats what true fans do thick and thin they stand by their team until the good times roll again.

good luck to the team and fans,

IA with this. IF you do go down it's not the end of a club - SL-level clubs can always bounce back. Cas have been relegated twice in the past 10 years and it's not ideal but you deal with it if it comes to it.



Good luck Bradford! Rooting for you

Bit different when it's a fair one up one down relegation system though isn't it?



How are championship sides expected to compete in a mini league with Super League sides with about half a million quid in salary cap budget?

Gives us Fax fans loads of pleasure as they rubbed our noses in it when we went down in 2003 and before when they were at the top of SL, oh how the mighty have fallen.

I must say I would not want to see no Bulls but when they were successful the Bulls blatantly poached fans from Calderdale and around Halifax with cheap and often free tickets, they did the same to Keighley and stole support from these areas to try get us out of their way to grow the Bulls brand at our expense.

This extended and still does to young players, they poach players from Halifax as Bradford is not as strong a RL area.

So take the medicine Bulls fans as you lived on money that you never had and are now paying the price, you will bounce back from this one day though but it will take time.