Frankly I just think this reflects our current political climate

Thank God we have RL to take our minds off that fiasco.

That probably won't be far off the 17. Plenty of talent there, but seven of those 17 plus the coach have been with the club for 2 weeks or less and three more are DR players who also won't have been at every training session. Suspect it will take a few weeks at least before we know what this group of players can achieve, especially with the three PNG players coming from a country where the LOWEST recorded temperature in recent years was 13 degrees centigrade!

I don't mind Bulls Banter. I think most are good intentioned. However like most places on social media it's like the new age Wild West. Gal that runs it deserves a bit of credit, like here it's a thankless task, and she's probably got 3000 people to moderate either single handed or with limited help. She's raised sponsorship for John Kear and players previously, which is a good thing.

Social media seems to have an effect on people which causes them to lose all semblance of politeness. You simply can’t debate with people in that frame of mind and it can take an effort not to end up in an argument. In the end everything is polarised. There is no place for nuance. I think it’s made the world far less tolerant.

Get over it snowflake.

If I was John Kear I'd have been smiling to myself that they failed to raise his sponsorship for the coming season, because I think "John Kear, sponsored by Bradford Bulls Banter" in every news article cheapens his image considerably.

With respect to "good intentioned" folk, well those with good intentions not the ones who get attention are they. The ones who get noticed are the ones who say stuff that people disagree with. People do it all the time online in politics, sport, music etc. It's a form of attention seeking - people are purposefully controversial and purposefully walk the line between what's acceptable and what's not in order to get comments and likes. This transcends into what can be described as an online snake pit. Try for yourself - go on there and post "Chisholm is crap" and see what happens.

I don't think the group serves much of a constructive purpose anymore (nice idea in principle) other than the sponsorship.

What’s the possibility of a frozen pitch on Sunday?