BRADFORD Bulls know the amount of teams they have at the club can only help them when the IMG grades are revealed, but it is rare to see so many of them in the same place at the same time.
A Women's Super League team and an elite academy are two of the elements a club need to be guaranteed Category A, and Super League, status from 2025 onwards.
At present, Bulls have both, and both the women's and academy sides joined the men's first team at Tong for training this week.
👏🏻 | Superb evening seeing our sides working together!
— Bradford Bulls (@OfficialBullsRL) April 25, 2023
👥 | Nine teams may run under the Bradford Bulls umbrella in 2023 but we are all #oneteam. pic.twitter.com/AkZcbkSzdh
The emerging youngsters in the scholarship side were also at BD4 on Tuesday night, as were the club's reserves.
With the Physical Disability and Learning Disability Rugby League sides taking part too, that meant seven of Bulls' nine sides were represented.
The LDRL side took part in their first ever festival last weekend, which was held at Leeds Modernians RUFC.
The 11-strong Bulls squad kicked off with a 5-3 defeat against Hull KR, but then won their remaining four matches, including an 8-3 win over Leeds Rhinos.
Bradford Bulls Foundation chief executive Chris Chamberlain said: “This is a great achievement to see a new learning disability rugby league team off the ground and competing.
“This has taken a lot of hard work from a number of people.
“However, I’d like to take this opportunity to say a special thank you to Mick Colborn and Darren Collins for their continued work alongside me.”
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