Why/where did it all start to go wrong? : Sun May 24, 2009 6:32 pm  

Why/where did it all start to go wrong?
I'm sure that everyone has got their own opinions and agenda's as to why we now find ourselves in the state that we are,crowds are at an all time low lately,there's no atmosphere in the ground on game day,how much lower can we go?

: Sun May 24, 2009 6:55 pm  

All of the above.

None of those would have been enough on their own.

: Sun May 24, 2009 6:56 pm  

I cant believe that the bulls have reached such a low point,they were a team to be feared not so long ago,sadly that is not the case anymore.
The fans no longer turn up in the thousands that they did when the bulls were the self proclaimed "peoples team"
The bulls have gone from being champions of the world in 2006 to being the worst yorkshire side in sl at present by 2009!
something is clearly going wrong throughout the whole club,i think that caisley is the main culprit,he backed the signings of probably the best ever bulls squads in the 2000's,when i look at the squad for the 2005 gf and compare it player for player with your squad this season,then i believe that theres not too many of this years squad would even get a shot of even carrying the kicking tee on!

: Sun May 24, 2009 9:43 pm  

The signing of Harris led to a lot of senior players falling out and leaving. Harris as a Stand off helped Leon to be on his way. Decisions made by Noble led to a lot of this. Then obviously culminating in the megabucks settlement in the Harris case finished off the boom time for the Bulls not just with success on the pitch but financially as well.

Peacock and Pryce leaving were the biggest losses for us in my opinion and alltogether this saga just hasn't sat well with the fans and thus numbers have dropped ever since.

: Sun May 24, 2009 10:07 pm  

Defintely the signing of I Harris i feel has the downfall of the club he brought some goods things and unfortunely he made a awful lot of bad things occur too.

: Sun May 24, 2009 10:34 pm  

Lestyn Harris was the catalyst of the demise of Bradford in my opinion.Not the actuual signing although that was bad enough considering the money he was on . But the fact that Noble was supposed to have negotiated the deal to lose 3 players to pay for him.One of them being Paul who was also on mega bucks.Wakefield saw sense and backed out leaving Bradford with all these players on mega money still at the club.I t was a long time before they could find a club to take the over the hill Robbie as laughably Noble had just given him a 4yr deal before he signed Harris.Then Noble left as well

: Sun May 24, 2009 10:45 pm  

TBH I think I'd have prefered to keep Robbie Paul over the signing of Harris.

: Sun May 24, 2009 11:59 pm  

Roofaldo wrote:

TBH I think I'd have prefered to keep Robbie Paul over the signing of Harris.

Didn't we have Iestyn and Robbie together for 18 months.

: Mon May 25, 2009 8:24 am  

redeverready wrote:

:? Didn't we have Iestyn and Robbie together for 18 months.

Yes that was the problem ,Noble had supposedly done a deal with Wakey to take Robbie and 2 others so they could afford Harris but they signed Harris at the insistance of Noble and Wakey did not sign the others .The problem was Noble had just given Robbie a 4 year deal and noone else wanted that millstone round there neck and Robbie was going nowhere while he could still have a draw from Bradford. So thats when Noble realised the writeing was on the wall and cleared off.