Classic Halifax fan... : Thu Jun 04, 2009 11:09 am  

Link johnny freeman fan club wrote: There was nothing "sporting or fair" about the way Bradford pinched our crowds and they started with the kids.I know that for a fact as I answered the phone at my school (Sowerby Bridge area) many years ago it was Bradford offering to send the Bully Roadshow to the school so they wanted to know when the school gala was. They were going to send a couple of players free tickets and Bully.I declined and said they should not be poaching from our school as we were Halifax area. Where to begin...

Link johnny freeman fan club wrote: There was nothing "sporting or fair" about the way Bradford pinched our crowds and they started with the kids.I know that for a fact as I answered the phone at my school (Sowerby Bridge area) many years ago it was Bradford offering to send the Bully Roadshow to the school so they wanted to know when the school gala was. They were going to send a couple of players free tickets and Bully.I declined and said they should not be poaching from our school as we were Halifax area. Where to begin...

: Thu Jun 04, 2009 11:23 am  

I love that thread "the road to Super league".

Well for halifax it's quite simple...

1. Change your name to Toulouse Olympique
2. Move to Toulouse
3. Hope that a Scottish team doesn't emerge in the next three years.

: Thu Jun 04, 2009 11:36 am  

Typical "it's all Bradford's fault we're carp" rubbish that fax fans wheel out when there's nothing else to do.

It's not our fault that our club went out and martketted themselves in the local area. I only wish they'd do a bit more of that now, maybe boost our gates a little.

: Thu Jun 04, 2009 11:45 am  

Perhaps a merger with Bradford would put a stop to all this fighting over which fans were stolen by who etc - the Bradford Bulls Sox anyone?

: Thu Jun 04, 2009 11:47 am  

Trimalchio wrote:

Perhaps a merger with Bradford would put a stop to all this fighting over which fans were stolen by who etc - the Bradford Bulls Sox anyone?

Coulda shoulda... West Yorkshire Bulls, playing out of the Shelf Siro was a lot closer than a lot of people realise. Then Fax fans started ring Gartland's house...

: Thu Jun 04, 2009 11:50 am  

Trimalchio wrote:

Perhaps a merger with Bradford would put a stop to all this fighting over which fans were stolen by who etc - the Bradford Bulls Sox anyone?

Look when we're both playing at the Shay after 2012 in the Championship it will be the divisions great rivalry match!

Baz and Tez will near as damn it soil themselves over some of the pla in that classic Thrusday night encounter.

: Thu Jun 04, 2009 12:30 pm  

Maccbull_BigBullyBooaza wrote:

Look when we're both playing at the Shay after 2012 in the Championship it will be the divisions great rivalry match!

Baz and Tez will near as damn it soil themselves over some of the pla in that classic Thrusday night encounter.

As a fax fan, I am glad you beat me to it

I have posted before on your board, and some may recognise that I am a fax fan who goes to Odsal, when the games dont clash.

But I dont agree with the tripe that the Bulls stole tha fax fans. Fans will choose where to go and who to watch on their own...

If you as a club managed to poach some youngsters from the depths of Halifax then fair play, its not an "out of bounds" area.

My grandaughter goes to school in Halifax and she has come home with free tickets for Bulls games and asked me to take her...

: Thu Jun 04, 2009 1:01 pm  

Well there you go. It's not a case of "this club stole our fans" it's more a case of "what did your club do to keep those fans in the first place?"

: Thu Jun 04, 2009 6:32 pm  

af wrote:

Coulda shoulda... West Yorkshire Bulls, playing out of the Shelf Siro was a lot closer than a lot of people realise. Then Fax fans started ring Gartland's house...

How close was it to happening?, remember we suggested it to them when mergers were being suggested but we were one of the teams that would have been in without a merger back in 1995

: Thu Jun 04, 2009 11:43 pm  

But it's all a load of bollox, though, isn't it?

A "merged" club would either play in Halifax or play in Bradford. Where it played would be the team it really was.

If we "merged" with Halifax but the games were played in Halifax, to me Bradford would no longer exist and I'd have no interest at all in trailing to Halifax to watch the "merged" team, even if it was all the same players, and called Bradfordsox Bulls.

You can't fool the denizens of a town or city by using the word "merger" when in reality it would be nothing of the sort.

The stuff about pinching fans, or young players, is bollox too. As someone else said, and I agree, fans will choose where to go and spend their money. And the obvious (but opaque to thickos) point remains - someone trails from Halifax to watch Bradford does NOT mean they'd watch Halifax if Bradford disappeared. These fools assume that someone used to watch Halifax, but was seduced into coming to Bradford. I mean, you only have to read it to laugh at the absurdity.

And the thought that a kid who started life at a club should jolly well be obliged to play for it forever is the biggest load of bollox of all.