Leeds and Bradford have joined forces in a partnership to raise the profile of rugby league and netball throughout Yorkshire.



Also will be playing a pre season game on Sunday 23rd January, kick off 3pm.



Muizz Mustapha, Corey Johnson and Jarood O’Connor join them on loan for the season.

Is there any recall option on these players? That’s a brave move if not.

Yes.

Can recall after 14 days

Makes sense then - these lads are unlikely to get game time at the beginning of the season.



Some more players due out at Fev?

Dual registration so i would expect Gannon, Broadbent, Edwards, Tindall regulars

Wish we would partner with Batley or Dewsbury rather than Bradford if im honest.

Good to see.

Previous history with Bradford aside, i'd like to see them back in SL. One of the few Championship clubs with potential to grow.

Maybe mate. I'm trying to think of how many players who played in the great Bulls sides were even from Bradford though. A fair few (English players) were from Leeds or Halifax I think? Paul Newlove was from Fev, Fielden from Halifax, Peacock and Lowes from Leeds... most of the other champion players were overseas imports.



The club overspent to get success, got in a world of trouble and failed to really connect with local youth development for me. Not saying that would be the same again of course.



Their fan base wasn't amazing unless they were spanking everyone either IMO.



Definitely has potential based on population and history, but a club doesn't add value if it's not developing it's own local juniors IMO as a core competence.

Bateman and Whitehead both Bradford born. Three Burgess brothers from Dewsbury but all came through Bulls system.

Not sure what you are talking about here. IIRC they were bringing through some top young players just as the club was on the verge of relegation - the Burgii, Whitehead, Bateman etc. Where do you think James Bentley came from? (And Donaldson for that matter, even if he's not star talent). That's already better than the likes of Warrington have been striving to achieve in the history of SL. It's all history now, but imagine if Bradford had retained some financial strength and had managed to hang on to some of those players a little longer instead of becoming a feeder club for Canberra and Souths...



A strong Bradford side was great for SL and our rivalry was arguably a factor in pushing Leeds to go one step further in 2004.



I could never understand why they stuck with McNamara so long when the money was still there but he was failing to deliver results and sticking with over-rated players like Platt, Sheriffe, Sykes, Halley, Tupou etc. They also had some real quality in Solomona, Morrison, Menzies, Orford (on paper!), but despite all that they always seemed to find a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory - e.g. Tansey-gate, and the massive capitulation to Wigan in a play-off game where they were leading 30-0 (or so). McNamara continued his career elsewhere and has obviously improved as a coach but his early coaching education came at a huge cost to the Bulls. Potter managed to turn it around in his second season but by that time the money issues had really started to come home to roost...