MARC Green does not believe that winning promotion would merely match the achievements the Bulls enjoyed in the not-too-distant past.

He thinks that beating Wakefield in the Million Pound Game on Saturday would even surpass the glory days which once made Bradford Super League’s dominant force.

“I actually think winning promotion would be the club’s biggest achievement for the past 20 to 30 years, not just the last 10,” says the Bulls chairman and owner.

“That’s no disrespect to previous chairmen and players but I say this because if you continually win trophies, it becomes a habit.

“You will find that when clubs do their open-bus parades, after a few years less people turn up.

“When Chelsea won the Premier League title this year, far less people turned up than when they won it after a 50-year gap in 2005.”

Let it be remembered that the Bulls famously featured in five successive Grand Finals between 2001 and 2005.

They won three of them, lifted the Challenge Cup in 2000 and 2003 and were also crowned World Club Challenge winners in 2002, 2004 and 2006.

Yet Green says: “This club has had success, but that success was built on success.

“Hopefully now, if everything goes according to our hopes and dreams, we will have built our success on adversity.

“I think that’s a greater achievement than achieving success on success.”

At around 4.30pm at Belle Vue on Saturday, if the Bulls have emerged victorious, Green will be punching the air like a madman and celebrating wildly.

Promotion would certainly cap a major turnaround in fortunes after last season’s disastrous campaign saw the Bulls enter administration and become relegated from the top flight.

Green reasons: “What would promotion mean to me personally? It would be more of an honour than a pleasure.

“Moreover, it would confirm my belief that I’ve surrounded myself with good quality people to create stability.

“It’s not one person’s effort – like rugby league, it’s a team effort.

“But as a sporting achievement? It would be massive.”

Wakefield chairman Michael Carter told the T&A this week that relegation would force the Wildcats to consider the prospect of going part-time in the Championship.

Yet failure to reach Super League would not leave the Bulls in that predicament, according to Green.

He explains: “We have managed a full-time operation in the Championship, so there is no reason why staying there should change that.

“I believe what we have done since I took the helm is lay solid foundations to build on.

“You need that stability and promotion to Super League would enable us to have the funds and increased financial clout to start competing at a higher level.

“It would be a step nearer to long-term success, but only the first step on a long road.

“I’m not going to make any false promises that if we are fortunate enough to go back up, then next season we will be in the top eight and the top four the following year.

“It will be carefully orchestrated and slowly-built development based on core values and solid foundations.”

Green estimates that promotion would add up to £2.5million to the club’s coffers, enabling them to compete for a better quality of player with the increased salary cap in Super League.

He says: “Going up would add between £2million and £2.5million to our annual income; that’s well calculated and can be substantiated.

“We have two budgets in place for next year depending on what division we’re in and if we have enough funds to bolster the squad, then we will.

“If we don’t have enough funds to do so, then we won’t.

“If that means we can only use the funds available from the players who won’t be here next season, then so be it.

“But we certainly won’t be announcing any silly signings before we know where we are next season.”

Green says businesses in and around Bradford are being attracted back to the club in the wake of the club’s new-found stability.

He claims: “We’ve given the business world the comfort that the club is being run in a professional and correct manner.

“People can see business pinning their name to our flag and they want to follow suit.

“Our players have carried themselves well and our performances have, in the main, been successful.

“Yes, we’ve had a few games where things haven’t gone to plan but you can’t win every match you play.

“There is still a lot of work to do, but we are finishing the season with our corporate boxes full whereas last season you couldn’t even give them away. We’re taking a lot of confidence from that.”

Green, not a man adverse to taking centre stage, insists he will not take the applause should the Bulls be celebrating promotion on Saturday teatime.

He says: “I will not allow you or anyone else to lay the accolade at my feet – what I have been fortunate to do is steer the ship.

“I’ve got a great team and without them we wouldn’t have the opportunity of securing promotion at all.

“Jimmy has done an amazing job with the players and continues to do so.

“Steve Ferres has done a phenomenal job on the football side in recruiting players and working with Jimmy.

“The coaching team, the physios and doctors who have patched the players up, and the players themselves, the marketing department – it has been a united effort. I am proud to have led them.

“Win or lose this weekend, I want to pay tribute and thank what has been the most phenomenal home support and travelling army this season.

“They have not only stuck with us this year, but in many cases they have carried us through various games.

“I genuinely hope we can repay the fans by winning promotion on Saturday.”