Re: Will anything come of this I wonder : Mon Jan 22, 2018 3:18 pm  

Maybe of short term benefit but letting the fox that is Nobby into our hen-house is something we may live to regret.

But as I say the pride was returning in the Bulls for me based mainly on the fact we seemed to be sorting ourselves out.

Re: Will anything come of this I wonder : Mon Jan 22, 2018 3:46 pm  

Scarey71 wrote:

Maybe of short term benefit but letting the fox that is Nobby into our hen-house is something we may live to regret.

But as I say the pride was returning in the Bulls for me based mainly on the fact we seemed to be sorting ourselves out.

We still are sorting ourselves out and the pride is still very much there. I like to think of it as a bit of additional help for us. I mean if we pick up a key injury in the prop department and are short on forwards, Toronto might just have an Olsi Krasniqi or a Luke Menzies available for us.

Re: Will anything come of this I wonder : Mon Jan 22, 2018 4:02 pm  

Bulls Boy 2011 wrote:

We still are sorting ourselves out and the pride is still very much there. I like to think of it as a bit of additional help for us. I mean if we pick up a key injury in the prop department and are short on forwards, Toronto might just have an Olsi Krasniqi or a Luke Menzies available for us.

The prop department is likely the last place we'll get help from Toronto, they've just sacked 3 of them.

[Bullseye]

Re: Will anything come of this I wonder : Mon Jan 22, 2018 4:04 pm  

With Keyes and Chisholm still coming back from injuries do Toronto have any surplus halfbacks?

Re: Will anything come of this I wonder : Mon Jan 22, 2018 4:07 pm  

HamsterChops wrote:

The prop department is likely the last place we'll get help from Toronto, they've just sacked 3 of them.

They'll recruit replacements before the season starts. Or not long after anyway. But either way the prop thing was just an example.

Bullseye wrote:

With Keyes and Chisholm still coming back from injuries do Toronto have any surplus halfbacks?

Wallace and McCrone as starters. Brierley, Dean and Wheeler. Can only really see Dean going anywhere out of that lot. As Wheeler will play somewhere in the back line.

Re: Will anything come of this I wonder : Mon Jan 22, 2018 4:23 pm  

well, another promise kept, a reserve side. Not in the form as we may have expected it, but a typical pragmatic approach by Chalo, something is better than nothing. For that alone the tie up is worth it.

Re: Will anything come of this I wonder : Mon Jan 22, 2018 4:42 pm  

Bulls Boy 2011 wrote:

Wallace and McCrone as starters. Brierley, Dean and Wheeler. Can only really see Dean going anywhere out of that lot. As Wheeler will play somewhere in the back line.

I seem to recall Reece Dean leaving them? Assuming that's who you're referring to.

I could see Gary Wheeler coming in for us fairly early. Especially if one of Chisholm or Keyes aren't 100% for the opener. Wheeler himself is massively injury prone so some game time for him would benefit Toronto while their first choice halves are fit, and benefit us while ours are injured. Unless Toronto play him in the centre of course.

[Bulliac]

Re: Will anything come of this I wonder : Mon Jan 22, 2018 4:47 pm  

Highlander wrote:

I would think they will want to use Tong training facilities when they are over as well.

I thought that idea had been proposed and rejected some time earlier as not being feasible?

Re: Will anything come of this I wonder : Mon Jan 22, 2018 4:50 pm  

Bulliac wrote:

I thought that idea had been proposed and rejected some time earlier as not being feasible?

I don't recall the reasoning, but they were certainly going to train at Tong when they were first announced as entering League 1, but then it fell through and they ended up at Brighouse instead.

Re: Will anything come of this I wonder : Mon Jan 22, 2018 4:56 pm  

HamsterChops wrote:

I seem to recall Reece Dean leaving them? Assuming that's who you're referring to.

I could see Gary Wheeler coming in for us fairly early. Especially if one of Chisholm or Keyes aren't 100% for the opener. Wheeler himself is massively injury prone so some game time for him would benefit Toronto while their first choice halves are fit, and benefit us while ours are injured. Unless Toronto play him in the centre of course.

Aye, hmm yes you are correct. Left for Doncaster. Then again Luke Menzies left last season for professional wrestling but in a recent article it states he's still there :/

I honestly can't see Wheeler coming to us. Would love him to come for a couple of games like as I think he's a good player when fit. If one of them isn't fit for the opener we will go with Smith or Minchella/Halfback and McNally at Fullback.