I have never known this happen before. Whenever we have announced our squad in the past it has always been with actual squad numbers. I dont see the relevance of this unless like you say they do represent possible thinking. Eg Platt at FB. Seems strange Royston hasnt a nuber unles we just had to include so many home grown players

is this squad actually from the bulls or speculation on connors part? I know it says its from bulls in article cut seems strange that it hasnt gone up on bulls website or any other sports websites.

I wonder if the we have to provide the RFL with our 25 man playing squad by a certain date and thats what this one is, other though I has was that this probably is our 25 highest earners so maybe its the salary cap 25 players over 25k squad?

Platt at FB in itself is strange as the squad lists appears at the end of an article about platt where he talks about playing in .

Unless of course Kearney will revert to FB once we sign this messianic stand-off...?

thats what im hoping. I'd rather we sign an average standoff and play kearney in his strongest position rather than go down route of trying to turn him into a standoff again. And tbh I put royston in at FB before platt if kearney wasnt available.

if this were from the bulls it must have a small amount of what they are thinking for the squad....why would they publish it otherwise?! I know there isnt much point in looking into it but if it was the squad....halley on the wing scares me when we have ainscough and raynor who in my opinion are much better!

TBH, I wouldn't be surprised if there's not some RFL rule about having to announce a preliminary squad. There seems to be no correlation between the numbers given, the signings we've made and where certain players play.

It's probably just a throw away bit of info that'll actually bare little resemblance to the official squad numbers

For one thing, it can't be proper squad numbers as 21 is issued, which is of course a retired shirt. And somehow I don't see them un-retiring Konkrete's shirt for Glenn Hall.

Why not list all the players in random shirt numbers then? Platt at 8, Langley at 1, etc?

Or, like years ago when the club was a trend setter, hold a shirt presentation evening with the coach giving players their relative numbers and creating a meaning around the numbers and engender pride in playing for the club and obtaining said number.

Ah well.

Something that died out cos no-one was going to it. It was a point raised at the last fans forum. It's an expensive event that doesn't really mean anything

Anything poorly sold will die out.

Expensive if revenues aren't greater than the cost obviously. See above.

Doesn't mean anything? Again, it won't if the club don't attach a significance to it. All about the sell.

How would you have sold it better?

Serious question, so next time one of us has a talk with Ryan or Andrew we can pass on the suggestions.