homme vaste wrote:
Always used to dread going to Odsal for some reason, even when Bradford weren't that good they still seemed to embarrass us! Strangely enough, if some one asked me for a list of my favourite games then Bradford away in 2006 the week before the MPG would definitely be on there, Friday night and the odds were massively against us but for some reason I just knew that we was going to come away with the win.
I would say my favourite fixture is Cas home or away, there is just a little bit of extra emotion in it, although I do hope we can pick up a win sometime soon!
I was never a fan of Odsal. Too big. Too cold. Too far from the action. I remember the game where Richard Agar seemed to be really meddling with line-ups and it just seemed a really frustrating time, and I hated Odsal that day. I think it was the game where Steve Southern was injured and played on one leg for a few tackles. Possibly his last game.
As for the 2006 game, I never really felt nervous in that last couple of weeks. It just felt like Cas were fading and looking really tired, and we were on the upward.
As an aside, it struck me recently that there will be adults watching Wakey who have been fans all their life and have zero collection of 2006, if you assume that most sporting recollections won't go back further than being five or six. That made me feel old. There'll be adults watching Wakey who saw the MPG as a blip rather than "here we go again".