WLWLWLWLWLWLWLWLWL is a lot better than our record of LLLLLLLLLLLLLL last season!!

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Only thing is we are due a win this weekend against salford and a loose against leeds!!

To be fair at the start of the season that is what I would have expected anyway! A win against Leeds is going to be a bonus!

Yes that is true, but as a bradford lad and fan, you always want to beat leeds in which ever sport it is

I always appreciate seeing your comments tiger you pull out some funny 1 liners

I was there. You're wrong.

HTH.

The thing is, you have to assume - from the playing rosta of their clubs - that many of these guys must be prepared to play for clubs like Wire and Hudds on packages considerably less than they would likely be able to command if, say, they signed with us? This must surely be so, give the level playing field of the salary cap and the absolute certainty that no club will be finding ways to avoid the cap?

I never apprreciated yours sufficiently before.

So, we should start signing quality players, then?

Those who suggest this obviously think we haven't done this to date. So,
a) name the quality players that you believe are available, and that you realistically think we could afford
b) name the players you would remove to make way.

Personally I am reasonably happy with our progress in the short time so far under Potter, and I'm very happy with the crop of youngsters who have so far come through. Unusually, we have several players in for example Donaldson, Whitehead and Olbison, all of whom genuinely look as if we could have struck lucky, and got some seriously better than average players. How far beyond that they may or may not improve over the coming seasons will, to me, all be part of the fun. I'd much rather us remain a reasonably competitive and improving side, with all these on board, than sign so-called ready-made "superstars" for some attempted short-term "fix", and risk losing any of these lads, who all need plenty of game-time.

I was also mightily impressed with the debut of Tom Burgess. I haven't the time to watch the junior teams this year, and was quite amazed to watch, since the impression from some on here is that he was not much use, and nowhere near ready, but there's no doubt that he's big and strong enough to be in the mix at this level, unless that was just some weird flash in the pan.

I was one who'd seen him in the U20s and didn't think he was all that much cop. However the 2 games he's played for the first team so far, he's done well. I don't think he's been man of the match material as some have been suggesting on the MOM threads, but he's done well for a young lad getting his first taste of first team action. He's run in hard, he doesn't seem to have made any mistakes (which is something I noticed quite a bit of in the U20s) and he even stepped out of a couple of tackles at Hull.

While I don't want to get as carried away as a few are doing, I agree that the signs are certainly promising based on his first two outings.