Re: One Ground, One Match : Fri May 02, 2014 7:59 pm  

shinymcshine wrote:

31 Aug 1997 - The Stoop

London 28 Bradford 24

Emotional day at The Stoop, over 9000 there, Diana died in the morning (rumours game could be called off), Bradford top of the league and London in second place, Richard Branson on board (together with Offiah and Edwards on the pitch)and everything looking very positive.....

Bradford's first defeat of the season that too.

Travelled down on the coach with my dad, no idea if the game was going to be on or not until we got there. Had to get up at stupid o'clock in the morning to get up to Odsal to get on the coach and saw the news not long after it was first announced. Walked into the bar at the stadium when arrived (or was it a pub? I forget, but it was full of fans) and there were a load of people watching the news there in silence. The first words out of my dad's mouth were "She's still loving dead then?"

Never been prouder of him.

Re: One Ground, One Match : Fri May 02, 2014 8:41 pm  

vbfg wrote:

Bradford's first defeat of the season that too.

Travelled down on the coach with my dad, no idea if the game was going to be on or not until we got there. Had to get up at stupid o'clock in the morning to get up to Odsal to get on the coach and saw the news not long after it was first announced. Walked into the bar at the stadium when arrived (or was it a pub? I forget, but it was full of fans) and there were a load of people watching the news there in silence. The first words out of my dad's mouth were "She's still loving dead then?"

Never been prouder of him.

Main memory of that night was the sheer amount of Bulls fans down at the Stoop.

Re: One Ground, One Match : Fri May 02, 2014 11:13 pm  

Bradford 97, Canberra 97 as mentioned already. Of those the Canberra game for the performance.

For very personal reasons the following game though we lost 18 - 22 against Halifax in t'cup on 25 November 1995 at the Stoop in front of 800. Same year we played at Copthall, Valley and Brentford and finished sixth.

Re: One Ground, One Match : Sun May 04, 2014 5:12 am  

Too many great days/nights watching London to narrow it down to one,and many have already been covered on here,the away wins were always sweeter for me,
Beating Cas in the semi at Headingley,
Beating Bulls in Scotland at Hearts ground
Beating Leeds in Perpigan,
Not too hot on remembering dates etc as grog was normally heavily involved,but miss those away games.