Quote amberavenger="amberavenger"Yep. I think it was on Sky and Leeds had lost earlier in the day meaning that before the match started we were top and Leeds were bottom of the league. Sky put the table on the big screen and it got as big a cheer as anything in the match!'"
I was stood under the screen that day and you are quite right about the cheer when we all saw that Leeds had lost at home and were now bottom of the pile
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For me the best game I ever saw at the Willows (when we did win) was the 1997 clash played in the red hot heat.
I still have the match day VHS of the game and no word of a lie, there was at least 5000 Bradford fans in that 9000 crowd. The whole North stand was a sea of Red, Amber & Black.
Then came that 11-10 game and the awful Kirkpatrick allowing Salford to stray offside all bloody game.
That said we lost the game with what must be up there with the most inept performances of all time, anyone remember that penalty we had and Robbie Paul threw a forward pass to Medley from the tap (we were that poor that day).
Anyhow on to Fridays game and I just hope that we win at the Willows for the first time in five years, 2006 we went down by a drop goal 17-16, 2007 we lost 14-10 in the rain in front of just 3000, We were 8-0 down at half time but had two quick fire Tupou tries after half time to take us into a 10-8, but then came the Alker magic and we lost
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2008 Salford were in the Championship and last year we went down 18-10 with yet another poor performance meaning Steve McNamara has yet to win there still.
Bradford by eight on Friday.
See you all there.
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I remember both games very well, same season 2000, the 52-1 I remember we'd started pretty poorly, they put over the 1 and it seemed to annoy our lads... good day out.
But it is better for the game I suppose that we dont see too many drubbings like that any more...... it was very funny at the time though.
