Well said. Hope there is a good size crowd to support Luke and his family. One of RLs good guys!!!

I will be going to the game for two reasons. 1. To recognise the career of Luke. 2. To support my team. We've been through a lot recently and some of the stick we've been getting is justified, I would have preferred to start as a new team in Championship 1 and earn some respect back but the Rfl have decided otherwise. I would urge as many Bulls supporters to go and support the lads that turn out for the game.

Now I could make an equally facetious comment back to your comment-but under the circumstances I won't.
We all get paid for doing our jobs. Most of us don't end up with ill health or circumstances that will change our later quality of life as a result. If that is the case then people usually claim compensation from the company they work for.

Excellent points. I will be there to see the Giants for the first time in 2017 and for Luke.

However, all banter and antipathies aside, I will also be pleased there is a Bradford team. I will always want the Giants to beat you, obviously. But Bradford is a very important club for TGG and it would be poorer without you. So I hope many will come and enjoy the first game of your new era.

I hope so too. Thanks for your comments, let's hope we see a good game and Luke gets a decent payday.

You make it sound like he was forced to play the game, also the injury he has had to quit the sport was something that happened over a long period of time, he new the risks while playing as does everyone else, your trying to make out this guy was some kind of super hero, he was a guy getting paid to do a job, end of

Mate, it's a hard and dangerous game, and people get hurt - sometimes badly.

For sure, no-one makes them play, but they do, and we go and glory in the big hits, crunching tackles and people being mashed up, so please don't be so churlish about giving a bit back. If you don't want to go then don't, it's your choice.

I will be there my friend

Yes it was an injury that happened over a long period of time-something he has probably been struggling with every time he played and trained but he still continued to go out on that field without holding back. To suggest it's ok for him to end up in a wheelchair because he got PAID to play is more than churlish it's downright disgusting!

I agree 100% with you Jools

Hey stop right there, I've never suggested that, the point I'm making is that he was the one who continued playing, I'm sure he new the risks as everyone else does in the sport, as for a wheeel chair your the one talking about that, not me

Knew.

At the end of the day Luke is a normal everyday family man with kids to feed and a mortgage to pay etc, getting paid to do what he loved, if he had stopped playing his income would have stopped !

These guys are not footballers and still have to work once their careers end so obviously he played on as long as possible to keep his income up.

I'm sure lots of people on these boards and in RL grounds up and down the country take risks in their work but 'not doing it' is not necessarilly an option.

Luke was gutted when he had to stop playing as it was his life.

and as for the 'not being a super hero' bit, i disagree, everyone who ever pulls on a Rugby league shirt for our entertainment and risk their livelyhoods, bodies and even lives is a super hero.

I'll be glad when we can talk about the rugby itself.


Anyway. Any RA&B posters that want to meet up beforehand some of us will be in the pub in the station from 2ish. The King's Head I think it's called.

Yes let's get this party started lol