And it takes ages to reverse the team coach down and around the drop to the dressing rooms.
It was Sunday August 18th 1996.
There were plenty of people from Halifax there that afternoon although some were wearing Bulls colours.
The fact of the matter was that the old Bradford Northern had embraced the concept of summer rugby league far better than most clubs.
Their budget for pre-match entertainment probably dwarfed that of the Blue Sox who were still tipping hundreds of thousands of pounds into Thrum Hall just to keep it open.
And their team – featuring such luminaries as Matt Calland and Karl Fairbank – was doing OK as well and they were planning to do a circuit of the stadium after the match in the said bus to celebrate an unbeaten home record that season and also the final match for coach Brian Smith.
But Halifax, after a disastrous start to the season, had been running into form as well, especially at home.
Was it the fact that Marty Moana had finally settled down and playing well after being moved to loose forward, away from the centre position where he had made his debut in January and to which he wasn't really suited?
It was a switch which reignited the Kiwi's English career.
Or was it the fact that Mike Umaga and John Schuster had started to turn it on as the season progressed?
Or the arrival of Australian Johnny Brewer from Parramatta to provide competition for places behind the scrum?
Brewer was a complex character.
Based at Milans Hotel he was homesick and obsessively worried sick by the BSE crisis then at its height and ate nothing except cheese and ham toasties as a result!
Whatever the magic formula was, it worked again as Schuster's drop goal was all that separated the teams as the end as Fax won 27-26 to rain on the Bulls bus parade!
The other special moment also belonged to the Samoan centre as the Halifax fans roared him on as he intercepted in the second half and charged away to score at the terraced end at Odsal.
The player who got the plaudits in Steve Simms' post match press conference was an Englishman in the shape of Craig Dean, who was living in Umaga's house on Dudwell Lane at the time.
Strangely enough he had come to live in Halifax to cut down on travelling but still commuted home to Leigh once a week to take his washing to mother Mavis!
Simms reckoned that he had cracked the secret of how to stop our old friend Robbie Paul and Dean was apparently at the centre of his defensive masterplan.
Calland scored in the second half but it wasn't enough.
We didn't know it at the time but it was to be Simms' last away Super League match in charge.
By the time the 1997 league got under way at Wigan he had signed another stand-off in Martin Pearson but also been sacked.