Bradford City... awful run, but great support.

Finally ended their 10 game run without a win yesterday. Amazingly, with the team 9th in League 1, they still managed to pull in 19,654 fans for a game against Gillingham. That's almost exactly the same crowd that Cardiff City attracted for their last Saturday 3pm game against Birmingham whilst on a nine game run without a defeat.

Looking at it a little more, Bradford's lowest crowd this season was 18,799 against Fleetwood.

That is higher than Cardiff's games against:-
Sheffield United
QPR
Millwall
Ipswich (15,951)
Brentford
Norwich City
Hull City
Preston North End
Sunderland
Bolton Wanderers
Middlesbrough
Barnsley (just 19 days ago)

Actually, it would have been quicker to type in the games where Cardiff's crowds bettered Bradford's lowest.

Seven attendances of 20,000 or higher... compared to Cardiff's 4.
Zero attendances of 17,000 or lower. Compared to Cardiff's 4.

I read this post and decided to kill myself. Finding out that Bradford have had higher attendances than Cardiff is by far the worst thing that has happened in my life.

Impressive, but is there even anything else to do in Bradford? It's an absolute toilet.

Population 200,000 more than Cardiff.

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Population 200,000 more than Cardiff.

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Dirt cheap ST's

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Dirt cheap ST's

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One club City also

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One club City also

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The home of Morrisons as well

Bradford have 18500 ST holders. Adult prices £149.00. Brilliant deals for their fans. Think theyve been doing this promotion for a couple of seasons.

:hehe: It's about £6 a ticket in a massive city with **** all else going on, but good on them none the less.

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Finally ended their 10 game run without a win yesterday. Amazingly, with the team 9th in League 1, they still managed to pull in 19,654 fans for a game against Gillingham. That's almost exactly the same crowd that Cardiff City attracted for their last Saturday 3pm game against Birmingham whilst on a nine game run without a defeat.

Looking at it a little more, Bradford's lowest crowd this season was 18,799 against Fleetwood.

That is higher than Cardiff's games against:-
Sheffield United
QPR
Millwall
Ipswich (15,951)
Brentford
Norwich City
Hull City
Preston North End
Sunderland
Bolton Wanderers
Middlesbrough
Barnsley (just 19 days ago)

Actually, it would have been quicker to type in the games where Cardiff's crowds bettered Bradford's lowest.

Seven attendances of 20,000 or higher... compared to Cardiff's 4.
Zero attendances of 17,000 or lower. Compared to Cardiff's 4.

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Didn’t realise it was as you AA, thought you only posted on your own board.

Population of over 500,000 and tickets cost about £5, of course they get good crowds

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Population 200,000 more than Cardiff.

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It has a pop of over 575000? I don’t think so.
Heard they give away lots of ST though, or very cheap, they have a lot of STH.

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Population 200,000 more than Cardiff.

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I would be cautious about using unitary authority or urban area as a measure. If you use either Bradford is larger than Manchester and Liverpool, when it clearly is not.

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I read this post and decided to kill myself. Finding out that Bradford have had higher attendances than Cardiff is by far the worst thing that has happened in my life.

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😂😂😂

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Didn’t realise it was as you AA, thought you only posted on your own board.

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😂😂😂

Bradford’s season ticket philosophy makes sense. Yes they are cheap but by selling so many of them they are getting more supporters into the ground with increased revenue on food, drink etc. If the season tickets were twice the price they would probably sell only half the number they have sold. So in reality they are probably getting revenue in overall with the bonus of more support for the team.

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It has a pop of over 575000? I don’t think so.
Heard they give away lots of ST though, or very cheap, they have a lot of STH.

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530k actually Goat shit

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Bradford’s season ticket philosophy makes sense. Yes they are cheap but by selling so many of them they are getting more supporters into the ground with increased revenue on food, drink etc. If the season tickets were twice the price they would probably sell only half the number they have sold. So in reality they are probably getting revenue in overall with the bonus of more support for the team.

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Agreed, but dint tell Goat shit. He thinks Bradford is a tin pot town in Yorkshire.

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530k actually Goat shit

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It’s lovely to feel welcome here

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It’s lovely to feel welcome here

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You’re not

Got some attributes
Birthplace of the Bronte sisters, JB Priestly ,Dynamo and One Direction’s Zayn Malik.

Invented school dinners .

Curry Capital of the UK three years in a row.

Football's greatest underdogs apparently.

As JB Priestley wrote : ‘"" However poor you are in Bradford, you need never be walled in, bricked up, as folk must be in London. Those great bare heights, with a purity of sky above and behind them, are always there, waiting for you.""

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530k actually Goat shit

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Nice, nice chap.

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Bradford’s season ticket philosophy makes sense. Yes they are cheap but by selling so many of them they are getting more supporters into the ground with increased revenue on food, drink etc. If the season tickets were twice the price they would probably sell only half the number they have sold. So in reality they are probably getting revenue in overall with the bonus of more support for the team.

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It makes perfect sense and should be adopted by more clubs to be honest

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530k actually Goat shit

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That's the metro authority, which includes towns such as shipley

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That's the metro authority, which includes towns such as shipley

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Every source I can find says roughly 530,000 . No mention of this including other towns in the area, maybe because it's considered a borough or something...

Gotta love this board, now we're scrapping over the exact population of Bradford to within the nearest 1000. I didn't think it was more than 200,000 until I read this thread. I always thought it was 199,000.

Bet them Yorkshire folk are loovin' this!

Bradford is a Metropolitan District Council formed in 1974 through the merger of 11 councils - the largest being the City of Bradford.

It includes Ilkley, Shipley, Keighley, Wharfedale and a lot of other places. Bradford itself makes up less than half the population.

It may be a one club city as far as football goes, but it is different for Rugby League.

However, it is still a big place with a large and close catchment area - so attendances around the 20K mark, partly driven by low season ticket prices, are understandable as well as impressive.

Didn't Bradford RLFC go bust?

Feck it, why do I join in on some of these posts ?

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Didn’t realise it was as you AA, thought you only posted on your own board.

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This may be just the start there will be posts about some crap pub team in Spain soon

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That's the metro authority, which includes towns such as shipley

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Bradford is not bigger than Manchester ffs

I lived in Bradford for 10 years. My brother still lives there and he and his family are all ST holders at the Bantams. Very good deals for adults and kids. Bradford is part of the Leeds/Bradford conurbation of about 2 million. There is no gap between the two cities. The council area does cover a large area but only Ilkley and the villages of Burley/Addingham/Silsden/Steeton/Denholme/Harden/Wilsden/Cullingworth are not part of the conurbation. Shipley, Bingley, Keighley, Baildon and Saltaire are all part of the contiguous urban area.

Bradford has a beautiful city centre with many intact Victorian streetscapes. Most of the inner city is 19th century terraces occupied by ethnic minorities and further out there is a ring of mainly white council estates. The curry scene is fantastic and there was a lively music and clubbing scene when i lived there. Saltaire is like Pontcanna with knobs on and is a World Heritage site. Ilkley is a 20 minute train journey from the city centre (they have an electrified Metro) and is a beautiful, extremely affluent spa town with Rombalds moor looming above the Wharfe valley.

If you live in Baildon, Bingley, Heaton, Nab Wood or Saltaire you will have a great quality of life while living in the city and if you are rich then you can live in Ilkley or one of the villages to the north or west of Bradford.

A great city and a lovely place to live.

Here is a map of the West Yorkshire (Leeds/Bradford) congregation. Of course, Leeds dominates but Bradford has many charms despite the negative narrative.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/West...ire_Urban_Area

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Bradford is not bigger than Manchester ffs

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I know that, but according to the unitary authority measurement, it is.

Jon1959 has answered better than I have.

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I know that, but according to the unitary authority measurement, it is.

Jon1959 has answered better than I have.

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Manchester is the central city of a unipolar conurbation of 2.8 million. Bradford is the second city of a multipolar conurbation of 2 million. Bradford city's population including the suburbs/towns of Shipley, Baildon and Saltaire is about 400,000. People from Bingley and Keighley, although part of both Bradford Met district and the West Yorks conurbation, would not claim to be from Bradford as those towns retain a more distinct identity.

Were Bradford the sly ****ers in the 90s?

Adult tickets 169 quid under 11s are 19 quid.. juniors 99 and seniors 149.

****ing baffles me how so many go to watch them. Mental.


https://www.bradfordcityfc.co.uk/tic...eason-tickets/

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It has a pop of over 575000? I don’t think so.
Heard they give away lots of ST though, or very cheap, they have a lot of STH.

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They have 18500 season ticket holders.
No restriction on how many under 11 tickets one adult can buy either so probably tons of kids in there.

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Didn’t realise it was as you AA, thought you only posted on your own board.

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To be fair to BIS he has intelligence. AA can't write a coherent sentence.

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You’re not

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:hehe:

Board is great lately. Not sure what changed.

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It makes perfect sense and should be adopted by more clubs to be honest

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Agreed. Clubs like Bayern do it, and I know it's been trotted out a million times but the chairman said something along the lines of "why charge more and gain an extra 2.5 million, it is an amount we haggle over in a transfer" and basically said fans come first.

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Bradford is a Metropolitan District Council formed in 1974 through the merger of 11 councils - the largest being the City of Bradford.

It includes Ilkley, Shipley, Keighley, Wharfedale and a lot of other places. Bradford itself makes up less than half the population.

It may be a one club city as far as football goes, but it is different for Rugby League.

However, it is still a big place with a large and close catchment area - so attendances around the 20K mark, partly driven by low season ticket prices, are understandable as well as impressive.

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My neighbour is from Bradford. He supports Leeds.