Karl Fairbank a legend of the club was number 21, but it's ridiculous that a shirt number has been retired.

Concrete's gonna getch ya

Stevo said something odd in todays League Express about another blockbusting Bradford forward about to go to a Lancashire club.

What/Who do you think he's talking about?

Wash your mouth out Terry!

Hopefully Worrincy .


Only "Blockbusting" ones I could think of are:

Burgess
Scruton (on a good day)
Menzies (just signed an extension)
Lynch (Extension)


any more?


Matt James to Wigan is going to happen

Sol?

Cheshire club

Stuck with us through thick and thin in an absolutely crucial time for the club, probably to the detriment of his international chances. Deserves to be remembered, and not using 21 seems to be working here in terms of jogging memories.

Its just a list of numbers from 1 to 25 to show how I think the 25 man first team squad we need to name for thr RFL will be made up, with 1-17 used to show a possible starting 17.

No squad numbers.

I think it was done in the very first season of summer rugby, at the time when the marketing team were just getting into full stride with all the innovations that became `Bullmania`. There was a large American influence to much of it; Peter Deakin himself was trained in marketing in the states where the tradition of `retiring` shirts is still pretty big in the NFL, so it`s no real surprise that someone came up with it.

One other word about Karl Fairbank: he`s the only player I`ve heard of, who when offered a benefit by the club, said "no, I`m not going to take money from people who have far less than I do". A special player and a special bloke.

I agree. Every time the squad is announced and there's no 21, you're reminded of Karl. That's a pretty big honour.

I hope the game day "tune" for him is that song by Echo and The Bunnymen/ The Doors