Quote: vastman "There is no crazy matey so cut that out. The Bulls especially under Caisley were notorious for raiding the Wakefield, Kirklees and others development areas, hoovering up all the best youngsters - never notice how many Bulls Academy players were not born within the sound of the Odsal hooter?
Now you've lost one that was - it's not pleasant, but a taste of your own medicine rarely is.
Not that I blame you that much but you had your time in the sun and now you're paying the price. All is fair.'"
Vastman, I'm not sure what you're getting at? All I said it was gutting seeing our homegrown talent that we had developed playing for other clubs. Not sayin we don't deserve it as we did as we entered admin..twice.
Don't get your point about Bradford going into Kirklees Wakefield area etc clubs don't just sign players who play for a club in their town. So by your logic only players whi play for a club in Cumbria should be developed by Cumbrian club. If Bradford hadn't have done the awful deed of picking up Jamie Peacock from the Leeds area, he may never have had an RL career.
I wasn't moaning about losing players, far from it, my point was, as a fan, that's that worst outcome of our financial troubles, hurts even more than relegation, but we fully deserved what we got.
Anyway don't want to derail the thread. It's originally about playing ability of John Bateman.
