Re: Hokey Cokey Squad 2014 : Mon Jan 27, 2014 11:02 am  

Paul Wood out for the first month of the season but Evans not been given a squad number at Wire despite only naming a squad of 24. Seems odd.

Re: Hokey Cokey Squad 2014 : Tue Jan 28, 2014 1:48 pm  

I'm not entirely sure where it was but the other week someone got a bit worried when Carvell tweeted about training in Liverpool, Donaldson tweeted today the same and it's high altitude training.

As if Odsal in January wasn't enough!

Re: Hokey Cokey Squad 2014 : Tue Jan 28, 2014 1:50 pm  

Also, can someone prod Ross at the T&A to talk to Dale Ferguson?!

He's probably the player I'm most looking forward to seeing next season and even I forget we signed him at times.

Re: Hokey Cokey Squad 2014 : Thu Jan 30, 2014 7:53 am  

hindle xiii wrote: Also, can someone prod Ross at the T&A to talk to Dale Ferguson?! He's probably the player I'm most looking forward to seeing next season and even I forget we signed him at times. Well, someone listens.

hindle xiii wrote: Also, can someone prod Ross at the T&A to talk to Dale Ferguson?! He's probably the player I'm most looking forward to seeing next season and even I forget we signed him at times. Well, someone listens.

Re: Hokey Cokey Squad 2014 : Thu Jan 30, 2014 9:01 am  

http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/10972767.Bradford_Bulls__Joint_injury_a_pain_for_Kearney_as_he_looks_set_to_miss_start_of_season/?ref=var_0 Kearney to miss first few games after all. not worth rushing him back in a position where our cover is actually pretty good. Decision now is who plays FB til he's back. choice of Kear,Foster,Gaskell or sammut. Think I'd go for Gaskell. No point disrupting rest of team when hes available and he looked solid enough their last week.

http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/10972767.Bradford_Bulls__Joint_injury_a_pain_for_Kearney_as_he_looks_set_to_miss_start_of_season/?ref=var_0 Kearney to miss first few games after all. not worth rushing him back in a position where our cover is actually pretty good. Decision now is who plays FB til he's back. choice of Kear,Foster,Gaskell or sammut. Think I'd go for Gaskell. No point disrupting rest of team when hes available and he looked solid enough their last week.

Re: Hokey Cokey Squad 2014 : Thu Jan 30, 2014 10:40 am  

mat wrote: http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/10972767.Bradford_Bulls__Joint_injury_a_pain_for_Kearney_as_he_looks_set_to_miss_start_of_season/?ref=var_0 Kearney to miss first few games after all. not worth rushing him back in a position where our cover is actually pretty good. Decision now is who plays FB til he's back. choice of Kear,Foster,Gaskell or sammut. Think I'd go for Gaskell. No point disrupting rest of team when hes available and he looked solid enough their last week. Yet again we have a player nursing a known injury over winter.As soon as training starts realises op needed and misses start of season. See my posts this time last season. Fully accept am not a Doctor but this keeps happening to our small squad and thus we start with less players than if op done at season end.Frustrating.

mat wrote: http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/10972767.Bradford_Bulls__Joint_injury_a_pain_for_Kearney_as_he_looks_set_to_miss_start_of_season/?ref=var_0 Kearney to miss first few games after all. not worth rushing him back in a position where our cover is actually pretty good. Decision now is who plays FB til he's back. choice of Kear,Foster,Gaskell or sammut. Think I'd go for Gaskell. No point disrupting rest of team when hes available and he looked solid enough their last week. Yet again we have a player nursing a known injury over winter.As soon as training starts realises op needed and misses start of season. See my posts this time last season. Fully accept am not a Doctor but this keeps happening to our small squad and thus we start with less players than if op done at season end.Frustrating.

Re: Hokey Cokey Squad 2014 : Thu Jan 30, 2014 11:19 am  

It does say in the article that they gave it the off season to settle down but at the end of the first week back it was decided to do something. They started pre-season on the 5th November - 3 months ago.
If he had the operation then - just before he went home for Christmas, it seems a decent timeline for recovery. It reads as if he HASN'T just had it done. If it was done in November then that seems reasonable to me. The must have had medical advice to give it the off season to heal itself. I agree though it is a shame to lose him at the start but I am used to it with Kearney as he has always been injury prone. Gaskell for me at fullback.

Re: Hokey Cokey Squad 2014 : Thu Jan 30, 2014 11:20 am  

Wonder if the club had done anything, training wise and medical wise with him, but as he went to aus until fairly recently bet they haven't had chance.

Re: Hokey Cokey Squad 2014 : Thu Jan 30, 2014 12:03 pm  

broadybull87 wrote:

Wonder if the club had done anything, training wise and medical wise with him, but as he went to aus until fairly recently bet they haven't had chance.

he had the surgery before christmas. Club let him stay in OZ longer than usual to recuperate from the surgery. Sounds like they left it for period between our seaon ending and start of pre-season to see if it would heal on its own then sent him for surgery as soon as it was apparent it was still an issue. Think its pretty standard practice, from a medical point of view, to try and avoid surgery wherever possible.

Re: Hokey Cokey Squad 2014 : Thu Jan 30, 2014 3:34 pm  

I think this will be the line-up in round 1:

17 Gaskell
2 Kear
21 Henry
3 Purtell
5 Foster
6 Sammut
7 Gale
8 Scruton
9 Diskin
10 Carvell
11 Olbison
12 Ferguson
13 Walker

14 Manuokafoa
15 Sidlow
16 Addy
19 O'Brien