Unless you're a shareholder you won't be seeing an income statement, they won't be filing full accounts at companies house.

I may be wrong here but I seem to think that the announcement that we are running a reserve side this season is actually ahead of schedule.

I remember that PowerPoint presentation that outlined the growth of the playing staff being something to the similar.

16s
18s
23s
Reserves(Are we at this point already, or ahead of the game ?)
First Team

Also I think Joe Lumb was picked up from Bowlings open age set up. Again may be wrong.

Someone quote this please, so coward HC cannot hide.

I predicted a good year or so ago that things on the field would get better, at that time you were in the grips of suicide. And yet you don't want to hear what I say, despite being a good year ahead of you.

No the accounts haven't been published. I said that when they are it I will analyse them to show where the miracle of last years survival as a club came from, despite no season ticket sales, having funds withheld to repay RL debts, having to pay for an academy and all the other impositions from the RFL. Yes, these all were happening when you were in dummy spitting mode.

So if we have survived last year, the outlook for this year is fairly positive period as our transatlantic cousins say.

My conclusion for the season-and-a-bit under chalo is that they know that winning teams (men's and women's) brings fans through the turnstiles, virtual or otherwise. Because they have set out their stall to do so. Players that they want, that fit the budget, and most important WANT TO PLAY FOR US. And they also know that the future is in young'ns not old farts like the majority on this forum however proud we may be to be described as such. And those youngns are so much more forgiving of a bit of dyslexia, freedom of expressing, wingdingbats and all that stuff.

Final comment: do you understand reflecting? Here is a definition for you:

What is Reflecting?
Reflecting is the process of paraphrasing and restating both the feelings and words of the speaker. The purposes of reflecting are:
To allow the speaker to 'hear' their own thoughts and to focus on what they say and feel.
To show the speaker that you are trying to perceive the world as they see it and that you are doing your best to understand their messages.
To encourage them to continue talking.

I am seriously thinking of turning my icon/avatar or whatever it is from "don't throw out the baby with the bath water" to "look in the mirror AH!"

Thereagain, if HC is happy, perhaps I should: let sleeping dogs lie. double-entrendre intended.

Sorry, despite the massive amount of common sense in your post, I have to pick you up on just one point. a business is lead from the top. Kear is not the top of the Bulls business. it is Chalo. they stated their intentions well before kear made a skidmark in the toilet pans of Odsal (Hallowed be his skids) (and apologies to any RC's amongst us). Kear has simply put the icing on the cake of chalos recruitment. So i have confidence in Chalos ability to recruit, and in Kears ability to assess their policy. to put it another way, you have put the cart before the horse, although a very fine cart.

oh bentbongo where are you when we need some idiosyncrapsy?

Feeling better now Mr Wildbull?

Last weekend 4 of us who went over to Keighley and have supported the Northern / Bulls for decades all believed the fans would return.
As far as what annoys fans I wouldn't blame the media announcements or lack of them from Mr Chalmers. Out of 4 ST holders 2 of them don't have a computer and the other one hasn't heard of this site or use any other. Only I come on here and don't give a damn about getting a young lad doing the press to save money to spend on the players and coach.
Chalmers and whoever is clearly helping him financially are doing the important things first. I am happy to see penny pinching being done. What a shame we didn't do it 10 years ago. It will get sorted when we can afford it.
I enjoy reading peoples thoughts on here but it is just a tiny handful of those near 3K ST holders. What happens on the field is what will enthuse the rest of the 3K and that is looking very encouraging to me.

Interesting quote in League Express a couple of weeks back. Sounds as if Kear's really had a positive impact since he arrived.

It's already feeling like it was well worth taking time over the coaching appointment

To be honest, I take no issue with just about all of that.

Where I part company with you is over the press/website statements. This is one area where, 'doing it on the cheap', to cut costs is self-defeating; the press/website is the business shop front, it is where initial judgements are made and first impressions of the club are formed. Misspelled and ungrammatical press releases and web pages are not the way to attract businesses to be sponsors or to give an impression of being business like. In general, to be blunt, it's fair to say most other businesses don't do it that way for a reason.

Thing is, it's not necessary. There is already a well-qualified journalist (Stu Duffy) at the club, though I confess he is busy doing other duties and may not want to go over old ground, he is though the perfect choice to mentor our, 'new recruit', and in the interests of the club, to just run his eyes over the stuff before it is published for the world to wonder at.