I hope you all come over and enjoy the day in the city of culture. But I assure you the rumblings coming out of our camp is not to get ahead of selves, don't write Bradford off Toovey is great coach sheen says. So he will get best out of his team they will want to prove points to folk. So I can assure you we were made to look foolish by Oldham, Leigh last year for taking things for granted. It won't happen this season I hope enjoy the season and like us hope you avoid any bad injuries

good rousing speech Bulls Boy 2011 - you should be in the dressing room at half time.


But dont go tempting fate with


A 20 point deduction next year will be a bridge too far

This is a concern. And the RFL have created the situation we find ourselves in. Our new owners and their finances (and therefore the squad they can get) and the timeframe before the season starts, have been hand picked by the RFL. So the squad we will field will , in part, have been predicted by the RFL, as well as most fans who follow the club.

Worst case scenario, if we, as is possible, field a 17man squad with 7 academy kids in it against a basically SL squad and 2 or 3 of those kids end up with significant injuries, that is an entirely predictable and avoidable player welfare screwup which the RFL will be mostly responsible for.

Good point about injuries, you definitely need a little luck with regards to keeping a clean bill of health this year.

For about a month last season (around April) Leigh constantly had between 10-13 first team players out injured. Even with a reasonable squad size we still had to go out and bring in Whiting, Charnock and Owen on month long loans just to get 17 players onto the pitch.

A glut of injuries like that could make a very hard task into an impossible one.

Does anyone know if the club plan on running any supporter coaches and if they will be selling tickets or whether they have to be bought through KR

They just tweeted that info about KR tickets will be released shortly. But they also tweeted that yesterday and then it didn't happen, so I wouldn't hold your breath.

I know they're busy at the moment but the lack of being able to contact the club except to actually walk into the shop, is harming them a bit I think. I for one can't get to Odsal at the moment so they may well miss out on some money from me. I'd be surprised if I was the only one. You can't even tweet them to make enquiries as it seems whoever is controlling the account isn't replying to fans.

Correct. And Nigel woods said on Twitter they assumed the Bulls would have our previous squad when they picked our league and minus 12. So they assumed that was a suitable punishment for a top half team, not a collection of kids and leon. Put a bad injury run and no reinforcements on the horizon amd we'll be lucky to get above zero. We desperatly need good luck with injury and some more forwards.

The more you think about the RFL's decision and thought process here, the more bewildering it becomes.
Did they honestly think we would keep the entire squad intact after being liquidated? Really?!
And on top of that, what would we pay them with considering how we were only getting £150k of funding?

Just utterly ridiculous, short-sighted, naive, call it what you want.

We should have gone into Champ 1 and someone else (Toronto?) should have taken our place.
Instead we are now going to have to endure a tortuous season of hammerings and humiliation before we are (probably) relegated anyway.

I agree entirely, and it's really p!ssed me off that that comment and explanation by wood has just gone unchallenged. It demonstrates unhinged thinking and leadership. And whilst our previous owners all set the bonfire up and lit it, in trying to put out the fire the rfl repeatedly seem to think petrol is just the trick. And we're supposed to be thankful for all the assistance...

But back on topic, all i want from the kr game is no injuries and another good effort for 80 mins hopefully building some combinations for the more realistic games to come. But I doubt we'll keep them under 50.

Our one hope of avoiding a complete drumming is that it's early in the season and the KR players will still be getting used to playing as a team - they have a lot of new faces.
It will probably finish something like 42-10.

Going to keep a keen eye on what handicap we're given by the bookies.

Where on twitter did Woods say that?

And once the RFL granted dispensation on the cap and quota, SL clubs were always going to fill their boots.