Happier times : Fri Oct 09, 2015 11:28 am  

After Saturdays depressing result I have been trawling you tube to try and cheer myself up. I remember Ellery playing for Northern and this try made me feel slightly better. What other great Bradford moments would everyone recommend watching, listening to or reading about? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trqg66GNNSo

After Saturdays depressing result I have been trawling you tube to try and cheer myself up. I remember Ellery playing for Northern and this try made me feel slightly better. What other great Bradford moments would everyone recommend watching, listening to or reading about? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trqg66GNNSo

Re: Happier times : Fri Oct 09, 2015 12:50 pm  

Yeah great try, unfortunately brings back more sad memories of another semi final defeat

[Pumpetypump]

Re: Happier times : Fri Oct 09, 2015 1:08 pm  

That famous video site annoys me for having very little old Bradford stuff. For example, there are a few grand finals but to my knowledge the 2005 isn't on. In fact if you type Bradford Bulls you get 100k videos of Leeds fans jumping up and down as Tansey scores the offside try, one or two of us getting bent over by Leeds and not much else. So Leeds fans are prolific uploaders of content clearly.

Re: Happier times : Fri Oct 09, 2015 1:16 pm  

Although it seems longer it's because Youtube, and mass participation online video with it, only became the phenomenon it did in 2006. It irritates me too.

[Bullseye]

Re: Happier times : Fri Oct 09, 2015 2:10 pm  

There's another site with a lot of Bulls/Northern games on but you have to pay.

Pm me for details.

Re: Happier times : Fri Oct 09, 2015 2:44 pm  

Wish there was loads of video of Sir Keith Mumby's weekly "impossible" tackles. I could watch that all day, and you can't really explain it to people who never saw it. They think you're making it up!

Re: Happier times : Fri Oct 09, 2015 2:46 pm  

A recent addition to YT is Bradford Bulls V British Army in the 2002 Middlesex Union 7's. The Army were apparently the holders but were blown away by Bradford (even though St Helens had hammered them at Valley Parade the night before). It confirms our preference that we believe we watch the right code of rugby.

Eddie Butler provides a reasonable commentary but Jeremy Guscott is at a cringe worthy standard all the way through. I almost expected him to tell viewers there's a 3 and a half year old boy in Dewsbury called Sam Burgess and it's his fault we can't beat these rugby league plebs at our own game. Swing low indeed..

[Bulliac]

Re: Happier times : Fri Oct 09, 2015 2:54 pm  

The best thing was the Bulls never made any pretence of playing union. It was plain rugby, in defence, they set a line across the field and defied the unionists to cross it and they were very quick to snaffle the ball when the army went to second phase. In attack it was an off-loadathon with with fast and nimble players hot-stepping their way to the line. If it had been boxing the ref would have stopped in the first quarter.

Re: Happier times : Fri Oct 09, 2015 3:06 pm  

I went to the Middlesex Sevens with a mate and it was one of the best days. Every time the Bulls cam out and sequentially destroyed whoever turned up, all the Union fans around us watched in a mixture of amazement and bewilderment.

For some reason, Bradford never got invited back.

Re: Happier times : Fri Oct 09, 2015 4:18 pm  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

I went to the Middlesex Sevens with a mate and it was one of the best days. Every time the Bulls cam out and sequentially destroyed whoever turned up, all the Union fans around us watched in a mixture of amazement and bewilderment.

For some reason, Bradford never got invited back.

seem to remember that instead of inviting us back they invited one of saints/wigan instead and they blew the unon teams away too then they mysteriously stopped inviting league teams for a few years