You've joined BullBuilder with that Mick - not sponsored a player!

Now that I've stopped gambling £20 a month to Bullbuilder is better then throwing it away in the machines.

Did you get my PM?

So are we just sponsoring Tom Burgess & Cain Southernwood now?

Just confirmed with the club that we are now sponsoring Tom Burgess, Cain Southernwood and John Bateman.

Cool. Bateman's a star in the making.

Does this mean Bateman is getting a squad number?

Bateman is fine by me though - was seen as a first class signing.

So I believe!

Excellent news and with Southernwood at the very least likely play, Redamberandblack.net is likely to get a shout on a few matchdays!

very happy with that. bateman sounds a very decent prospect from what I've heard.

Great stuff! Happy with that.

Good Call with Bateman

Notice none of the 3 players we have sponsored have squad numbers. You would hope they would still be listed in the squad in the programme, so that RAB still gets the exposure that sponsoring them brings.

May not be the primary reason we did it, but it's still something.

I know....I'd have expected them to get numbers. Maybe they'll be issues later?

At the very least I expect they'll be part of the 1st team squad day to day

Six obvious player ommissions from the currently-named squad, named individually by Conor.

Six obvious gaps in the number sequence of the squad currently named.

Go figure?

Hopefully.

sounds like potter is keeping the numbers back as a target for the players to aim towards in training. They achieve a certain standard that he's set and they get rewarded with a 1st team number. gives them an added incentive to get their heads down in training, given that due to numbers in 1st team squad anyway they are unlikely to feature this year unless we suffer badly with injuries.

I would hope Finigan and Southernwood at least would get a few games under their belts.

I'd hope southernwood at least would. maybe a few too many ahead of finigan for him to feature (and didnt he only go full time at backend of last season?).

1. Who have RAB sponsered??

2. I think it's a great idea that the younger ones have to fight for their jersey

Yeah, you're right about Finigan but he looks promising. Maybe he'll get a go if we get an easy cup tie.

In T&A Connor said Tom Burgess would be sixth in line for prop (I presume Lynch, Scrutes, Hargreaves, Koppy, Crossley, Burgess) so i'd also expect him to get 1 or 2 sub appearances. Although in the big games Langley would probably be used there.

tom burgess, cain southernwood and john bateman

Great choices

! of your sponsors will be playing on sunday, young JB.

be a bit difficult with him not being in 19 man squad for 1st team game and u20's called off

Now that Bateman has been named in the 19-man squad, that means he must have been registered with a squad number. Would be nice to see him included on the website now, with the sponsors mentioned at the bottom and a link to this site, as with other players.