I think we learned in 2012 when most of the SL voted to keep our TV money and share it amongst themselves thus dooming Omar Khan to failure from the start that in the world of SL it’s dog eat dog. That’s the reality. We can try to be nice but when it comes down to it there are club owners out there that only care for themselves.

I wonder if there was anything in that League Express story a few weeks back that Ken Davy had enquired about buying the Odsal lease from the RFL? I’d suggest he’d be better served keeping his money and spending some more on the marketing dept of his own club.

The game needs a leader, people moaned about Richard Lewis a bit but he was light years ahead of his successors.

Loads of enquiries trying to push up the value up to get it out of Chalmer's range is what they cynic in me is saying. They seem a little worried by our overly bombastic kiwi.

Carter - Check
Hudgell - Check
Davy - Check

Any bet's on who's next? Salford's Chairman is ruled out so....

Pearson - 3/1
McManus - 8/1
Leneghan - 10/1

Anyway, I can't do two games this weekend so if the OP can get Hudds to set up a just giving page or similar I'd be happy to throw a tenner in for the poor B*st*rd who's loosing out in these squabbles

The player always used to have a 'testimonial committee' which would organise events on his behalf, though it was always normal for the beneficiary's club to support him as best it could. Very few RL players leave the game with a fortune so it's pretty sad if they don't.

I think it's pretty clear why his testimonial game is against us - it's because we are likely to take a lot more fans that most of the other clubs. Otherwise why not have the testimonial game against another SL club?

The irony is, that even though we are playing on the Saturday, we will probably STILL take more away fans that quite a few of the so-called 'Super' League teams would have done.

Webster, chisholm, lilley and garside all confirmed to play in hudds game

Which players for Bradford do you think will play against us? (Giants fan)

Maybe we'll line up like this:

Stephenson
Dee FJ
Webster
Centre?
Winger?
Lilley
Chisholm
Prop?
Hallas
Prop?
Garside
Storton
Milton?

Subs

The places I'm not sure about will most likely be filled by academy/reserve players.

Gibson?

Expect Culling, Cobi Green and Ebon Scurr to play. Keelan Foster too.

Stephenson
Dee FJ
Webster/Culling
Gibson
Winger?
Lilley
Chisholm
Magrin
Hallas
Foster
Garside
Storton
Milton

Subs

Scurr
C, Green
Gallagher
Vaznys
Grant?

Stephenson
Dee FJ
Webster
Gibson
Ryan Butterworth
Lilley
Chisholm
Magrin
Hallas
Foster
Garside
Storton
Milton

Subs

Doyle
O'Hanlon
Mcgill
Lightowler
C, Green
Gallagher
Smith
Scurr
Littlewood
Culling

Looking forward in seeing Ryan Butterworth. Impressive in the academy.

Huddersfield Giants win the game 56-12.

Hmmm.. hopefully this will serve to temper expectations a bit

I felt a few of our fans (mainly on FB to be fair) were getting ahead of themselves and thinking we were world beaters because we'd won of couple of pre-season friendlies

Only 6 first teamers today, 4 of them played less than an hour none of them played full game. Mainly a hit out for academy.

Giants played a VERY strong squad for the first 20 mins, and the Bulls were good opposition, but with the players we had on show the score line is not surprising

I think though under Kear the Bulls will have a good season.