\n Both Leake and Bate are young forwards who have come through the Bulls\u2019 Elite Academy system, impressing to earn their first professional deals earlier this year.\n<\/p>\n
\n The duo join fellow ex-Elite Academy graduate Jamie Gill in committing their futures to the club, with Kurt Haggerty\u2019s side back in Super League for the 2026 season.\n<\/p>\n
\n Bate said: \u201cIt\u2019s a dream come true.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cConsidering where I was last year, Bradford have been brilliant with me, really helped me through and got me to where I need, where I can now get full-time experience.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe coaches here and the lads who are coming into the team will help my development.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThey\u2019re going to push me and push each other so my game, both mentality and physically, will be developed.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI am looking forward to pre-season, trying to get in Kurt\u2019s eyesight and on his radar and do my best to knock on the door for next season.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n He added: \u201cIt was good to get a taste in the first team towards the back end of the year.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt can be uncomfortable coming out of your comfort zone when you first start but now I am fully settled in and looking forward to the season coming up.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Leake said: \u201cIt feels good to be here heading into Super League and I am very appreciative of the club for keeping me on.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI spoke to Kurt when he rang me to congratulate me on my new deal and I just said thank you for keeping me on.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt is a dream come true to play in Super League and be a big part of history with Bradford being back in the top flight.\n<\/p>\n
\n Alfie Leake scores for Bulls against Keighley Cougars in a friendly last December. (Image: Tom Pearson)\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI am proud to be able to play my part moving forward.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI feel good after my injury and I\u2019m looking forward to going full-time, which will help speed up my development alongside some of the other lads too.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI am glad to be able to redeem myself coming back from that injury, to be able to train well and to show what I can do next year.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI\u2019m excited to be able to learn from some of the senior boys and I will be able to develop faster due to being in and around them every day.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt will also be challenging and bring about added competitiveness, so it will be good to be in and among them.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Head coach Haggerty said: \u201cAlfie and Cameron are very similar to Jamie, they are both coming through the pathway so it’s a really exciting time.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI know the work that Ryan Hunkin (Head of Youth) has been putting into some of these boys coming through.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cBoth Alfie and Cameron have really started to blossom through now and they deserve to go in a full-time environment.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to seeing how far they can go in their career.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Both Leake and Bate are young forwards who have come through the Bulls\u2019 Elite Academy system, impressing to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-547382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115488746713323233","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}