Re: Was it Worth It? : Wed Dec 07, 2016 8:06 am  

Where the bulls are concerned it is all worth it!

Re: Was it Worth It? : Wed Dec 07, 2016 7:26 pm  

Of course it was worth it.
Every memory of my life is founded on a backdrop of following Bradford through bad times & good.
Mostly good memories in my lifetime, but I will stick with them through everything that is yet to come. And god only knows what that will be....

Re: Was it Worth It? : Thu Dec 08, 2016 10:26 am  

It's interesting that most people on here castigate the Dark Knight for the condition we were left in but say that it was all worth it. We now get comments saying all w want is a stable club. Perhaps what we really want is the thing referred to in politics as Boom & Bust. 10 years success followed by 10 years of turmoil. A case of better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Bring it on. Perhaps we should change the motto to: Life's never dull as a Bull

Re: Was it Worth It? : Fri Dec 09, 2016 11:52 am  

I get what you're saying, but I reckon we'd have been fine without Harrisgate, and there was absolutely no need at all for it to ever happen

Re: Was it Worth It? : Fri Dec 09, 2016 12:09 pm  

It was Superdome that did us when we switched from the peppercorn rent we were paying the council. Harrisgate was just the final nail in the coffin.

Re: Was it Worth It? : Fri Dec 09, 2016 12:14 pm  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

I get what you're saying, but I reckon we'd have been fine without Harrisgate, and there was absolutely no need at all for it to ever happen

The Harris saga is an easy cop out. Caisley dealt with this in his open letter to the t and a .....

Re: Was it Worth It? : Fri Dec 09, 2016 12:18 pm  

Surely not wrote:

The Harris saga is an easy cop out. Caisley dealt with this in his open letter to the t and a .....

How and in what possible way is it a "cop out"? It cost us literally millions, money we didn't have, and greatly disrupted the team, including losing the services of Jamie Peacock. And this when Leon Pryce was already on our payroll.

Caisley didn't "deal" with it at all, as I recall, except mumbling something about the Bulls having said they had the huge payout covered from other funds. Oh, so that was allright then? That means it didn't cost us what it cost us?

Re: Was it Worth It? : Fri Dec 09, 2016 4:15 pm  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

How and in what possible way is it a "cop out"? It cost us literally millions, money we didn't have, and greatly disrupted the team, including losing the services of Jamie Peacock. And this when Leon Pryce was already on our payroll.

Caisley didn't "deal" with it at all, as I recall, except mumbling something about the Bulls having said they had the huge payout covered from other funds. Oh, so that was allright then? That means it didn't cost us what it cost us?

Read the article again

[Bullseye]

Re: Was it Worth It? : Fri Dec 09, 2016 5:23 pm  

I've read the article. It's Caisley's side of the story so bound to say he didn't make a mistake. I doubt the full tale will ever come to light. However I don't need to know it to see that Harris was an awful signing.

Re: Was it Worth It? : Fri Dec 09, 2016 7:54 pm  

Caisley was our most successful Chairman until his hubris overcame his judgement. Even at school he was an arrogant git.

He had a shocking relationship with the council and convinced himself the club could do better with control of the stadium. I don't know who did the numbers for him but clearly they got them a bit wrong.

The Harris affair was even more ridiculous, how could he possibly imagine Harris would still be Super League quality after three seasons standing around with his hands in his pockets? Notwithstanding the financial catastrophe, that decision cost us the services of Jamie Peacock and Leon Pryce.

Nevertheless I wouldn't trade the memories. That afternoon at Murrayfield, when we won the Cup for the first time in my lifetime, I'm happy to admit I cried. Moments like that made it all worth it.