Bradford Bulls ace Burgess: It’s a dream come true to join my three brothers in Australia (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

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  Thee Voice of Reason wrote:
  

  raisemeup wrote:
  

  raisemeup wrote:

  Prycey wrote: With Jeffries and lots of others going we are about to face another massive rebuilding process. It will give the young lads such as Southernwood a chance. We need to prepare ourselves for another 5 years of either being at bottom of SL or a complete rebuild in lower leagues - if we do actually survive being relegated. I have started to accept it and I am sure that once the pain of all this is over we will have a future but it may be decades before we get to the top again. I have also come to the conclusion that we probably do deserve to be moved down a division and give one of the others a chance. Promotion and relegation could be our saviour in the long term if brought back.

  You are right on a number of points there Prycey..but in the opinion of many> promotion and relegation will not be the saviour of Super league clubs. For example a club has to have massive investment to join SL, then face a season of building...and when that team is at the bottom of SL. it's relegated and some other unprepared team comes up to be the whipping boy all over again. It's a self perpetuating nightmare! Promotion and Relegation works only in the lower divisions and then it's a hard slog but achievable...it won't work in SL in just one season. At least a 3 year licence (for all it's flaws) gives them a chance to build. If after that the promoted club hasn't made it, then the P& R is OK providing the club vying for Promotion from the lower division has shown a consistency in building for Super League over those 3 years. How unfair would it be to Widnes to say after one season they are to be relegated . It's as unfair as it is to the Bulls to say because we had some poor management , the whole club should be punished, when we have the opportunity (not listened to as yet) to put it right. Are we to be made part of this great experiment (if that's what it is!)of reducing the clubs in SL to 12, and who will be the number 2 club to go, in this experiment? Not many will put their hands up I'm sure, and that may be why they have backed us, I think? With the exception of a few shortsighted clubs, who probably think their crowd will increase as will their SKY payments without us , and the one other, as yet unamed club. If we go down I do not see a bright future in the short or medium term. The game will suffer with nearly 200,000 supporters being affected by our demise. Who amongst them will support other teams is not to be known, but do they (RFL)and us (Super League Clubs) want to find out? And if I actually hear another comment to the effect that you have to feel sorry for the RFL? I say it's like having sympathy for the firing squad, because it's a job they have to do! However try telling that to the poor b...er, who's gonna be shot!

  Sorry not 200,000, that implies half of Bradford go to our games..what I mean is 14,000 x 14 home games as the "Supporter footfall " over a Season Of course the catchment on a national basis is unknown. But I reckon it is pretty substantial.

  Where is the 14k coming from, this year is closer to 10/11k per game, with a few exceptions when Leeds come to town.
  
  14k was when season tickets were £60 last year and the year before that the Bulls struggled to get 9k though the gates.

  The average prior to the Hull KR game is 13,500. I am not going to explain anything else to you.
  In fact if the sensible people amongst us agree:
  Let's apply a simple barometer to all these tedious rebuttles that are only designed to put us off track.
  If we just reply with an Iritating Factor Level or IFL between 1 and 10 (10 being the highest) do you think they will eventually get the message????
  
  TVof R would rate as an 8 in this instance? Well to me anyway, an 8 perhaps is please go away, you twerp?"
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