Re: amateur clubs and the bulls : Tue Jan 07, 2014 10:59 am
Northernrelic wrote:
You would think it would but then the Bull's glory ( and larger crowd years ) where 95 to 05 after the amateur scene had started to shrink.
And it was widely acknowledged at the time that a lot of tickets were given out in schools throughout Bradford. The point being that for the majority of kids in Bradford after they went home they had very little contact with the game for two weeks until the next home match to keep them interested.
This is in no respect a criticism of Bradford as the club cannot financially support junior clubs but a point for discussion as how junior clubs are required to keep children interested in the game through teens into adulthood.