Cheers gents. Yeah "One of your own" blew me away with that gesture, as has the support your club has shown already. I now know if it came down to it we'd be doing the same for the Rhinos. Bet you hope we never have to though.

That 'one of our own' would like to say OOOOPS



Will the 'one of our own ' be doing the walk ? YES . He has booked the week off work and is now actively seeking sponsorship . Not just financial sponsorship , but help with equipment would be great too .
While we may pay a lot of our hard-earned into this sport we all love so much , it is not very often we get to do anything that actually makes a difference . It will certainly be an experience that will be remembered long after the blisters have healed .

ahh good old Whitley Bay

Amazing. Im told you somehow like Newcastle Broonale (I don't know a Geordie that doesn't hate it). Consider yourself the recipient of a crate from James and I for this. To show our gratitude we'll also sell our souls and pose in Rhinos tops (the pics need to be burnt though).

If you can help at all with Baldricks request for kit, please do so. As I've said today if a Rhinos fan can back my Brothers cause to this extent than club loyalty can surely no longer be an excuse not to. Yourselves and the club have been nothing short of fantastic over this.

I see a fair few comments regarding my favour of the Broon . I Wonder who started them . I guess it was Martin or Ray . We went out one night , and all we drank was Nuclear brown ale . We had the bar man mark us with a pen for each one we drank . When I woke up a week or so later I had 18 lines on my arm .
Good gear is that stuff

I'd like to wish you the very best of luck!!

Is there a sponsor page for this, or a link to donate? As much as I dislike turning the Bulls into a charity, that feeling doesn't stretch as far as not rewarding this kind of effort.

And if you raise the money you're talking about, I hope the current incumbents make you and your brother co-chairmen.

My son wanted to do a bit of the walk as we pass through Leeds . Unfortunately he won't be able to as he was hit by a car today . He was very lucky in that he wasn't severely injured , the worst injury is a broken ankle .

So . Can anyone out there loan me a wheelchair for an hour or so one day next month so I can push him for the bit he was going to be walking ?

Rick

By the way . How was the game tonight ? We missed it as we were down a the LGI with him . He is still there with his mum .

Sent you a PM mate

Me too, shocking news and amazing BaldRick still wants to join us. Rhinos fans rest assured the Bulls mob are fighting amongst each other to push Carl in the wheelchair we're getting him sorted with for as far as the brave little fella wishes to travel.

Carl is home from hospital . He has a mini zimmer-frame for indoor use , and a wheelchair for outdoors . He has mastered the chair as only a child can in such a short time . I am unsure how long we will have use of the chair though . Fortunately he is also able to use the stairlift that we have for his mum, so as soon as we teach him which buttons to press he will be able to go up and down on his own .
'Risk assessment' at school rules him out of attending there for 8 weeks because his classroom is upstairs . They can't accommodate him elsewhere , and they are not willing to provide us with work for him to do at home . The reason they give is that we can't educate him in the same way they do it , and I guess to a certain extent they are correct . I haven't the slightest idea about how numberlines work . Although it is a long ime since I went to school I am sure I could sort at least a minimum level of an education for him at home . FFS .. His mum is a parent ambassador at the school and is only 4 weeks away from finishing a training course to be a teaching assistant at the neighbouring school . All we asked for was some homework , and we were ripped to bits and treated like we have deliberately put him in this position . A game of twenty questions regarding him being in hospital twice already this year was fun . I know they have to keep an eye out for kids thay may be getting abused , but in Feb he was in hospital for an eye operation , and this time he was in because he was run over by a car . The questions they ask made me feel like they were thinking I was guilty of gouging him and throwing under the Zafira .
If I was to keep him out of school for so long I would probably get a custodial , but it is ok for them to not allow him any education for three months ( including school term breaks either side of his exclusion) .

Rant over