Re: Number 17 for gaskell : Wed Dec 10, 2014 2:13 pm  

Pumpetypump wrote:

I think in honour of the various players that oversaw our progressive fall from grace we should retire numbers 1 to 99. I'd like a string of digits on the back ideally.

If they had a mixture of letters (some upper-case, some lower), numbers and special characters, fans could safely use their favourite player as a password.

Re: Number 17 for gaskell : Wed Dec 10, 2014 10:16 pm  

roofaldo2 wrote:

The thing is, I've seen the players before wearing numbered training gear that wasn't theirs. They just happened to pick it up and put it on.

Until the official shirt numbers are announced, I'd not get over excited by things like this

I'm not planning on getting excited by things like this after the official shirt numbers announcement, either.

[Bulliac]

Re: Number 17 for gaskell : Thu Dec 11, 2014 11:07 am  

Stul wrote:

I'm not planning on getting excited by things like this after the official shirt numbers announcement, either.

Oh do, please......there's no-one talking anything much at the moment - and I'm getting lonely

[Pumpetypump]

Re: Number 17 for gaskell : Thu Dec 11, 2014 11:24 am  

I recall seeing union teams with letters instead. Is it written in the rules that we must identify players numerically? And even then could we use Roman Numerals. A prop already has a big X on their back, and under my system they still would.

Wa wa waaah. Roman numeral puns.

[Bulliac]

Re: Number 17 for gaskell : Thu Dec 11, 2014 11:35 am  

I think both league and union sides have used letters in the past, though just why I can't imagine. I certainly can't remember any league team doing it in recent history [depending on what you regard as recent, I go back to the mid 1950s, though early memories are more than a bit hazy...]. I think a union side was still using letters in the last 10 or 15 years though, as I can remember the fuss when they changed.

Can't think of any puns - largely since, even with our large squad, we're not getting beyond xxix or if you prefer xxviiii

Re: Number 17 for gaskell : Thu Dec 11, 2014 12:51 pm  

Bulliac wrote:

Oh do, please......there's no-one talking anything much at the moment - and I'm getting lonely

I was but people don't respect my opinion so I jacked it in.

Re: Number 17 for gaskell : Thu Dec 11, 2014 12:53 pm  

Maccbull_BigBullyBooaza wrote:

I was but people don't respect my opinion so I jacked it in.

Meh. That's just your opinion.

[Bulliac]

Re: Number 17 for gaskell : Thu Dec 11, 2014 1:09 pm  

Maccbull_BigBullyBooaza wrote:

I was but people don't respect my opinion so I jacked it in.

Do y'know, I thought it was just my opinion no-one liked - I'll go to the foot of our stairs..

Re: Number 17 for gaskell : Fri Dec 12, 2014 2:36 pm  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

Meh. That's just your opinion.

It's not it's depfinitely the case.

I made some observations and suggestions posted on the Halifax board and got a right gob full for it.

I'm a massive fan of Rugby league and want to help the family out. Yet was attaked for thinking of sensible ways to help improve things for their little club.

[Bulliac]

Re: Number 17 for gaskell : Fri Dec 12, 2014 3:33 pm  

Some people just can't be helped Maccbull. Best just wash your hands of them and leave them to their fate, they deserve nothing else - just small minded people, a parochial bunch with little world view beyond shelf and Ovenden. They'll come begging to you for advice before you'll need them, is what I say.