MARC Green was trembling with nerves.

He was about to face the media for the first time since buying the Bulls.

The cameras flashed and the questions came thick and fast from a packed room.

“I was sweating and I actually had palpitations,” remembers Green of his first press conference as Bradford chairman.

“It was daunting but, a year on and through experience, you learn to cope with it and I like to think I’ve developed in that area.

“It would be wrong to say I’m not enjoying being in charge of this club. I’m actually loving every minute of it.”

It was 12 months ago to the day since it was announced that Green had taken ownership of the Bulls.

A year on, the London-born businessman can reflect on what he calls the most intense year of his life.

“It’s been an absolute rollercoaster but I have no regrets about taking the club on,” he adds pertinently.

Part of Green’s story is easy to forget.

He lent the Bulls money to pay wages and ended up buying the club himself from administrator David Wilson.

“Up until 4pm on Friday, March 21, a consortium led by Abi Ekoku was buying this club,” says Green.

“It was only at 4pm that day when their bid was rejected by the RFL that I made a decision within the space of 30 seconds to step in and take it.

“I then made an appointment to meet the RFL on the Monday.”

The rest, as they say, is history.

Green’s first 12 months in charge saw the Bulls crash out of the top flight for the first time in 41 years.

Yet Green has since assembled a squad which has encouraged hopes of an immediate return.

“The past year has brought stability in various ways,” says the Safeguard Security boss.

“The volume of supporters going to away games says everything about the feelings they have now got back for the club.

“Other clubs are rubbing their hands together about Bradford bringing around 2,000 supporters to their ground because it’s a nice pay-day for them.

“I think that endorses the feel-good factor coming back to the club and growing game by game.

“Also at home, the crowds are growing and we have introduced things for supporters such as Bulls TV, which has 5,000 viewers.

“Sponsors are contacting us to say ‘we want to be associated with the Bulls again’.

“On the field, we’re pleased with the way it’s going because we’ve won five games on the bounce.

“The players are gelling together nicely but I don’t need to worry about that. I’ve got Jimmy Lowes to focus on the playing department.”

Green will continue to run the club as a business and explains: “You have to make tough decisions and it would have been very easy for me to cut season-ticket prices. But that doesn’t necessarily bring people through the doors.

“I’m told this club once did a £60 season ticket but that’s nonsense.

“The business has a cost to deliver the product and people have to be willing to contribute towards that cost.”

Green puts the importance of winning promotion into perspective when he says: “I’ve done calculations and envisage that promotion is worth about £2.5m more on our income streams than this year.

“We need to invest that in various areas to make sure we’re able to stay in Super League. It’s not only about being promoted but maintaining your position once you get there.”

He cites the appointment of Lowes as the highlight of the past year and will not rest until he has returned the club to its former glories.

“My dream is to lead the Bulls out at Wembley in a Challenge Cup final and it’s something I’m determined to do,” says Green.

“I certainly won’t be going anywhere until I’ve at least achieved that.”

Green is a committed family man and his wife Jane also plays a key role at the club, overseeing the merchandising operation.

The Bulls supremo adds: “The job has become all-consuming and if wasn’t for the fact I’ve got the support of a good woman and great kids, then I dare say I wouldn’t be able to give the club what I give it.

“Jane isn’t just the chairman’s wife, she’s actually here on merit, and is responsible for all the merchandising that all the supporters are commenting on both on social media and when they come into the shop.

“She is responsible for the design of the kits that we have this year and next year.

“Jane has a retail background and therefore, believe you me, she is working equally hard here during the week as anybody else.

“I’m actually working more hours and harder than at any time since I first started working. At least 50 per cent of those hours are devoted to the Bulls.”

Winning promotion at the first attempt would be some story but, if Green does not succeed, he will try again in 2016.

He adds: “Super League teams are desperate for Bradford to get back up because of the size of the followings that we take away.

“But we lost our right to dine at the top table. All being well, we will get it back this season.

“If we don’t, then we will get what we deserve and will have to have another go next year.”