Re: Million Pound Game : Wed Sep 30, 2015 8:08 pm  

LifeLongHKRFan wrote:

I celebrated my team getting to Wembley for the first time in 29 years. I will not celebrate failure. I will clap my team at the end of a game win or lose but i wont celebrate. And with regards to taking the rough with the smooth, I started supporting HKR in the eighties and have seen more rough than smooth but I will never celebrate the fact that we manage to stay up when imo we should never be in that position.

But, we were in that position and it was because we weren't good enough in the first 23 rounds.

Re: Million Pound Game : Thu Oct 01, 2015 6:23 am  

Let's just hope everyone stands in the right place. It would be unthinkable for a home fan to have to stand next to someone with a different shirt on to them.

Re: Million Pound Game : Thu Oct 01, 2015 7:20 am  

SmokeyTA wrote:

Can being a third of previous averages be anything other than terrible? Can dropping by a substantial amount be anything other than terrible? Can a club going from 12k to 5k in less than 3 years be anything other than terrible?

Bradford are a big boy club, they don't need patronising by being judged to a lower standard.

If you keeping thinking that 5k is 'good for where we are' it's not long before 5k just becomes 'good' and we know that isn't the case for Bradford. No excuses

I think you're looking at Bradford through rose-tinted glasses. Long past are the days of Bullmania, the last 10 years have seen the club decline dramatically both off and on the field and there's a long road of rebuilding that needs to happen before those big crowds come back.

Re: Million Pound Game : Thu Oct 01, 2015 7:20 am  

Anyone think this should be the curtain raiser for the Grand Final?

Re: Million Pound Game : Thu Oct 01, 2015 7:35 am  

the name has always baffled me, do the winners actually get a million pounds?
or is it a nickname , like the football league championship play off is nicknamed the 80 million pound game or something like that?
just curious, if it's not really a million pound game then what it is exactly?

Re: Million Pound Game : Thu Oct 01, 2015 7:37 am  

builditandtheycome wrote:

Anyone think this should be the curtain raiser for the Grand Final?

no!
why should 2 clubs who have been a joke off the field and aren't good enough for super league share the biggest stage with the best 2 teams?

Re: Million Pound Game : Thu Oct 01, 2015 8:05 am  

Depends, what type of person you are and your outlook on life. Sounds like you could be a 'glass half empty' type of person. The concept has brought life to normally pitful ends of season. OK, you can say Wakefield have been mediocre, but all they did is play the system? That's not their fault. Perhap a few tweeks to the results will alter this happening again. As for Bradford, being a Giants fans, like me a Salford fan, know what its like to be relagated from SL, so you trying tell them the game is pointless.

Seems to me all RL fans want to moan and complain because for the sake of it.

Re: Million Pound Game : Thu Oct 01, 2015 8:10 am  

The Grand Final should stand on its own. Unless Huddersfield get there, at which point the crowd might need padding out a bit.

Re: Million Pound Game : Thu Oct 01, 2015 8:11 am  

we could always seek out those 10,000 missing bulls fans

Re: Million Pound Game : Thu Oct 01, 2015 8:14 am  

meast wrote:

the name has always baffled me, do the winners actually get a million pounds?

The winner gets £1M more in central funding for next season than the loser does.