bullsonfire wrote:
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.
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
they 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.
