[Bulliac]

Re: Squad numbers : Mon Jan 20, 2014 3:55 pm  

They pretty much used to normally play in the old shirts until the season proper started so I don't think we can take any clues from that.

Got to say though, since getting the email from the club and then seeing posts from people who attended the presentation night - I haven't a clue what the numbers are....

Re: Squad numbers : Mon Jan 20, 2014 4:07 pm  

I'd much rather we just scrap squad numbers all together.

[Bulliac]

Re: Squad numbers : Wed Jan 22, 2014 1:05 pm  

So...they still have the 2013 numbers on the website, but they've held a shirt presentation and sent an email with different numbers to season ticket holders. However, my question is, 'does anyone actually know what the real squad numbers are'?

Re: Squad numbers : Wed Jan 22, 2014 1:15 pm  

bobsmyuncle wrote:

From tonight's Shirt Presentation
1 Kearney
2 Kear
3 Purtell
4 Blythe
5 Foster
6 Sammut
7 Gale (Vice captain)
8 Scruton
9 Diskin (Captain)
10 Carvell
11 Olbison
12 Ferguson
13 Walker
14 Manny
15 Sidlow
16
17 Addy
18 Gaskell
19 Donaldson
20 O'Brien
21 George
22 Henry
23 Wood
24 Roberts
25 Mellor
26 Conroy

These are the correct squad numbers as announced at shirt presentation, 16 was bypassed

Re: Squad numbers : Wed Jan 22, 2014 1:29 pm  

Somebody clearly works on the Bulls site, as it (for example) soon changed with the First Utilities sponsorship, and I can't for the life of me understand why first team squad, which is after all and by a long chalk the Number One whole bleedin point of the enterprise, is wrong. Poor old Garreth Carvell, for example, isn't even in our squad, if anybody looked.

It's pretty poor, and if I'm honest, a bit of an insult to both players and fans, especially when we have much less fundamental stuff - like the spin about the SL sponsorship deal - being put up.

[Bulliac]

Re: Squad numbers : Wed Jan 22, 2014 2:45 pm  

pulsator2k7 wrote:

these are the correct squad numbers as announced at shirt presentation, 16 was bypassed

Yes, I've heard that list before.

Trouble is I've also got the "correct" squad numbers in a mail from the Bulls and it has a number of differences to yours, and whilst I'd guess that your list - from the shirt night - is going to be correct since they, presumably, must have done the shirts to match, but it would be nice to have it confirmed. Y'know, sort of like the left hand and right hand were in synch..

Re: Squad numbers : Wed Jan 22, 2014 2:49 pm  

Bulliac wrote:

Yes, I've heard that list before.

Trouble is I've also got the "correct" squad numbers in a mail from the Bulls and it has a number of differences to yours, and whilst I'd guess that your list - from the shirt night - is going to be correct since they, presumably, must have done the shirts to match, but it would be nice to have it confirmed. Y'know, sort of like the left hand and right hand were in synch..

Lol to be fair at the shirt presentation they werent even given individual shirts with their numbers on - it was one shirt Franny had and just kept holding up for pictures with the players when the number was announced (the number just appeared with the players name on a projectir screen behind the stage)

Re: Squad numbers : Wed Jan 22, 2014 4:40 pm  

pulsator2k7 wrote:

Lol to be fair at the shirt presentation they werent even given individual shirts with their numbers on - it was one shirt Franny had and just kept holding up for pictures with the players when the number was announced (the number just appeared with the players name on a projectir screen behind the stage)

I don't think this will work. I mean, it will save on printing costs, sure, but even with powerful projectors, fans might have difficulty in seeing the numbers clearly on a sunny day. Plus you would need a lot of projectors, and operators.

Re: Squad numbers : Wed Jan 22, 2014 4:43 pm  

Wonder if they haven't actually got the player shirts yet, which are a higher quality than replicas we buy. This would explain both not having shirts printed at presentation evening and also using last years kit on Sunday, which is a practice we haven't done for a few seasons now, although it used to be the norm. Players kits will have all sponsors just announced on them so maybe they were delayed whilst sponsorship deals were being finalised?.

Re: Squad numbers : Wed Jan 22, 2014 5:09 pm  

mat wrote:

Wonder if they haven't actually got the player shirts yet, which are a higher quality than replicas we buy. This would explain both not having shirts printed at presentation evening and also using last years kit on Sunday, which is a practice we haven't done for a few seasons now, although it used to be the norm. Players kits will have all sponsors just announced on them so maybe they were delayed whilst sponsorship deals were being finalised?.

Did you actually attend the game on Sunday. The club played in the new shirts and then had the photo shoot on Monday, it was on Look North. The Squad numbers are on the website. On the news page under Cummins announces Squad Numbers. What more do you want. The reason they wont be on the squad page will be because they wont have had the pics from the photo shoot yet.