Fev fans ironically wear flat caps and it’s hardly a great look for a sport that already battles stereotypes to dispense with a club from Canada and replace them with another one from West Yorkshire. Super League has two clubs from the City of Wakefield and that is arguably already one too many. What do they bring to Super League? Not a great deal. It is hard to see how they get bigger than they are, and they aren’t very big to start with. They will fall down, however, on their location: Featherstone is a village of just 15,000 people and surrounded by existing Super League teams. Average attendance of 2-3000 is great for the Championship but you struggle to see how it will get much bigger in the future. Off-field: Stable financially and their ground is no worse than others that are already in Super League.
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They are also part-time, and it remains to be seen if all their players would want to give up their other jobs for a crack at Super League that might only last one year. That said, they have a fruitful player partnership with Leeds that would end if they were promoted. On-field: Fev haven’t been outside of the top 5 in the Championship in a decade and half of their team has played Super League. Consistently in the upper reaches of the Championship and stable financially. Recent history: Beaten in the 2019 Million Pound Game by Toronto. (Photo by Richard Sellers/PA Images via Getty Images) PA Images via Getty Images That said, they have one of the best junior pathways around (John Bateman, Elliott Whitehead and James Bentley to name just three of those who have come through the club) and in John Kear, a coach who has made his reputation on causing upsets.įeatherstone Rovers Tom Holmes during the Betfred Championship Summer Bash match at Bloomfield Road. They are already not as strong as other Championship clubs and that million-pound distribution wouldn’t go far in putting a solid team on the field. That said, dumping Toronto for financial failings and elevating Bradford, who were so recently a basket case, would be a kick in the teeth for the idea that Super League is interested in expanding beyond its north of England heartlands.Ĭan they survive? It would be an uphill struggle. It’s often said that it is easier to bring back old fans than convert new ones, and currently there are thousands of fans in the Bradford area who are lost to the game.
Bradford could go in and, within a few years, become one of the best supported teams in the league. What would they bring to Super League? Fans, obviously.
Acceptance would be contingent on the panel believing that the current board have the cash needed to get the Bulls back playing in Odsal and financially in the black. It is currently owned by the Rugby Football League (RFL), who acquired it in one of the Bulls’ many administrations. That said, they are currently playing in Dewsbury as they can’t afford to keep their iconic Odsal ground going. They averaged over 11,000 fans in every season in the 2000s, which would place them close to the top of Super League based on 2019 averages. They have a huge dormant fanbase and a Super League club could bring them back. Bradford were the best team in the world in the early 2000s, before their financial issues brought them to their knees. Off-field: If the Bulls are to be accepted, it will be because the panel want to reinvigorate rugby league in one of its heartlands.
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