Yes Bulls Boy, anyone can use them with the visually impaired supporters obviously getting priority and the best thing about this service . . . . . . It's already been paid for and so it's free (although the poor people stuck on a hospital ward will have to pay £3.50 to listen to the whole game ).

If you're at Dewsbury, Keighely or at Odsal for the Wakefield game just drop myself, or Gill a PM and if we have a headset available/free it's yours for the game.

To everyone reading this, if you know a family member, friend, work colleague or that bloke in the pub who could take advantage of this service then please let them know because up to press three people wouldn't have renewed their season tickets for this season if this great service wasn't around.

It's an idea that maybe I will email Stuart/Andrew about.

I agree that as a patient having you're own personal tv/radio/internet arm-mounted screen is great, but what isn't is the fact that for a one week stay it's going to cost you £15 to use it and if you want to make phone calls then I would double that £15 to £30.

Hospedia's constant squeezing more money out of patients isn't good publicity for anyone going into hospital and let us all be honest in that patientline has always been too expensive, too much hassle for patients to go get cards from the vending points off the wards, which then causes no end of issues for staff in trying resolve them (such as a patient moving from ward to ward, thus menaing they lose their credit as are locked to the terminal they are first inserted into until the manager shows his face).

My experience of working in a hospital that uses this service is that a good 50% of patients (especially the elderly patients on wards 30,29,9,6 & 3) don't have any means to pay for this service and it's a very sad sight to see them sat in their chairs fed up with nothing to watch and why should anyone on this forum (lifelong Northern/Bulls supporters) who are just recovering from a operation have to pay £3.50 in order to listen to Bradford vs Wigan on a service provided by the hospitals own radio station?

No worries.

This sort of thing might be quite useful too for new fans. Those who are coming to a game and don't really know the rules too well and don't know the players. Of course they wouldn't get priority over those who are visually impaired or suchlike and need the headsets, but if there are free ones available, it might be quite a nice little thing for those new fans to help them know what's going on, and might just help encourage them to come back.

Sadly, Mick will be in the commentary box. They will leave none the wiser.

They would end up leaving mentally impaired.

It could be, at that. Maybe something that could be covered by a small charge, to help contribute to the costs, and perhaps if the hospital thing comes off a bit of subsidy towards the ripoff costs there? And Mick gets a huge rap from the current listeners for his commentary and knowledge of the game, as we have seen GillJ confirm. As I said earlier somewhere, in this at least he deserves praise not mockery.

yeah but wait until Ganson is reffing. Does this system have a bleep filter

Ever seen snooker or cricket? Where they have them earpieces to listen to commentry, That would be very useful for new people coming to watch, when i first starting coming to watch the bulls 5/6 year ago i didnt have a clue, i remember 1 time i shouted go on ... and it was the wrong person! Oh dear