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Re: Will anything come of this I wonder : Mon Jan 22, 2018 4:59 pm  
The feel good factor is returning slowly but we are not completely back to 100% yet so I will accept any bit of help we can get and if it benefits us both then fair enough.
I am happy with what we have been told today and shows that Chalmers is doing his job off the field even though he isn't the most communicative chap we have ever had. That doesn't matter though as long as we improve as a club over the next few seasons.
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Re: Will anything come of this I wonder : Mon Jan 22, 2018 5:01 pm  
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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.

No longer at Brighouse.They currently train at Manchester University sports complex.Apparently its "state of the art" and was owned by Man City till a couple of years ago.
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Re: Will anything come of this I wonder : Mon Jan 22, 2018 5:24 pm  
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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.


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Re: Will anything come of this I wonder : Mon Jan 22, 2018 5:25 pm  
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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.


I'm pretty sure the only announcement about the plan being dropped mentioned some unspecified 'difficulties'. I'd guess the bigest difficulty would have been both clubs needing the facilities at the same time and, if that was the reason, I'm also not really sure how much that effect would be changed by us now being both part and full time for this season.

Of course, it may well have been all the financial stuff going on at the time.
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Re: Will anything come of this I wonder : Mon Jan 22, 2018 6:05 pm  
Well,.I really don't like dual reg full stop. However getting out of league 1 at the first attempt is the main priority, so if Chalmers thinks this will help that in the short term then fine, but the sooner we can manage without it the better.
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Re: Will anything come of this I wonder : Mon Jan 22, 2018 6:09 pm  
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I'm pretty sure the only announcement about the plan being dropped mentioned some unspecified 'difficulties'. I'd guess the bigest difficulty would have been both clubs needing the facilities at the same time and, if that was the reason, I'm also not really sure how much that effect would be changed by us now being both part and full time for this season.

Of course, it may well have been all the financial stuff going on at the time.


I suspect the dynamic may have changed completely. Sounds like we now do most of the training on an evening with a big chunk of the full time players time been spent on community work. This would leave tong under-utilised during the day.
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Re: Will anything come of this I wonder : Mon Jan 22, 2018 6:21 pm  
I have a theory regarding the duel reg...

As the season progresses Toronto will likely have players who are nowhere near selection, but are being dragged half way around the world with the team regardless. Maybe the plan is for such players, especially if England based, to be dual reg’d to Bradford whilst rest of the team are in Toronto. Means they can keep fit and play in either the first or reserve team, but don’t have to be away from families unnecessarily.
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Re: Will anything come of this I wonder : Mon Jan 22, 2018 6:34 pm  
Don't Toronto have the majority of their away games in the first half of the season while their stadium is redeveloped? So think this could only work in the first part of the season. No lose situation really unlike last year with Widnes where we were just desperate for players.
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Re: Will anything come of this I wonder : Mon Jan 22, 2018 7:20 pm  
We really should be falling in behind our owners now surely. Tribunal over with no come back; good squad,improved greatly today;no penalty points,starting on zero;excellent coach,better than virtually anyone expected;reserve team to keep all fit;new home and away shirts ready before season starts;dual Reg making potentially more players available; no debts (?).
It’s almost as if they are very experienced rugby league people doing their best for us isn’t it. Come on you Bulls,give them your full support.
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Re: Will anything come of this I wonder : Tue Jan 23, 2018 10:11 am  
tackler thommo wrote:
We really should be falling in behind our owners now surely. Tribunal over with no come back; good squad,improved greatly today;no penalty points,starting on zero;excellent coach,better than virtually anyone expected;reserve team to keep all fit;new home and away shirts ready before season starts;dual Reg making potentially more players available; no debts (?).
It’s almost as if they are very experienced rugby league people doing their best for us isn’t it. Come on you Bulls,give them your full support.


I’m pretty much with you Thommo with some reservations. Chalmers is slowly getting us going in the right direction and he deserves great credit for landing Kear. I hear we’re approaching 3k season tickets sold so he’s confounded the critics like me that said he’d never manage it.

Before my cup runeth over I do think we need to see how the dual reg pans out before we judge it a success. The last effort with Widnes wasn’t good. Hopefully lessons have been learned, we shall see. The launch of a reserve side is a good thing.

Having shirts available before the season is a bit of a bare minimum anyone would expect so hardly something to go mad about. We don’t know what, if anything, the tribunal cost or what state our accounts are in (anyone know when they’ll be filed?). I suspect we’re living on a shoestring and I hope we’re not running up any debt and the move to the hybrid part time model should save a lot.

I’d say we’re coming along very nicely and I’ve got my season ticket. The next move I’d like to see is an end to the ridiculously badly written press and social media releases. If he does that I’ll be even happier.
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