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Re: Willy Tonga : Fri Jul 14, 2017 8:53 am  

HamsterChops wrote:

Chapelhow has been wearing 39 for the last few games so has essentially been assigned that number. Similarly Chamberlain 40 and Aston wore 41 on Sunday (Bulls tweeted his shirt out). Fair to assume those numbers have been assigned to those players. 38 seems to have been missed out, although Chapelhow did wear that previously for a game or two. Storton & Brooks only ever wore someone else's shirt (like 25 while Tomlinson was on loan to Skolars).

There has definitely been 40 players used so far this season though. Everyone in the squad has played at least once, except for Josh Rickett. Numbers 1 to 37 have been used, minus 12 and 27, which is 35 players. Then Storton, Brooks, Chapelhow, Chamberlain & Aston on top of those.


(I should give credit to my source on these, my "man with the stats" haha, but I'm not gonna....)

It's all made more difficult with not having a 'proper' programme each week. Fair enough, the T&A pullout is OK in its way but, for some reason, they never ever put a number alongside the names and the website lags behind even that... though, on the basis of, 'if you can't say something good, don't say anything, I'll say no more about the website. I mean, I totally get that they have more things to do but it's like trying to get 'news' out of GCHQ, at times.

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Re: Willy Tonga : Fri Jul 14, 2017 9:03 am  

Pumpetypump wrote:

Well yeah I'm the same but with the added symptom of not even being bothered about this forum either.This is a wasted year we didn't ask for, and I just want it gone.

What the RFL have forced on us this year is unforgiveable. Absolutely, it's wasted and next year we'll be where we should have been this year. Waste waste waste.

Re: Willy Tonga : Fri Jul 14, 2017 9:10 am  

it is what it is..
I think with what we are starting to see we are on the way back up..
if its via C1 then so be it.

Re: Willy Tonga : Fri Jul 14, 2017 3:42 pm  

bowlingboy wrote:

it is what it is..
I think with what we are starting to see we are on the way back up..
if its via C1 then so be it.

Agreed, we are where we are and we do look to be starting to sign players.
If that is in L1 then fair enough. We will need to do a Toronto.
People will accept that if Chalmers is up front with us and shows intent.
I hope we are also ready to announce the signings of the young lads. Signing these new experienced players is good but it would then be annoying to lose half a dozen of the young lads that have shone this season.
Supporters will continue to support if they see good clear management and planning. We have lacked that over the last decade. If Chalmers gives us that then we will back the club - as we have done so before even with past owners that then let us down.

Re: Willy Tonga : Fri Jul 14, 2017 3:50 pm  

Well my interest has plummeted rapidly this season for a whole host of reasons. Probably made it to just under half of our home games this year. I can't say the prospect of Coventry and Gloucester visiting Odsal next year fills me with any excitement to drag myself out of my garden.

Re: Willy Tonga : Sat Jul 15, 2017 7:33 am  

Ashley Gibson pretty much confirms Tonga signing. Sounds like he's training with the squad.

From T & A website:

The injury is not uncommon among players and there are others in the Bulls' changing room happy to compare notes with 30-year-old Gibson during his absence.

He said: "There are quite a few lads here who have had theirs done, like Willie Tonga and Scott Moore. I know he's done his three times from being at Wakefield.

Re: Willy Tonga : Sat Jul 15, 2017 11:58 am  

dddooommm wrote:

Ashley Gibson pretty much confirms Tonga signing. Sounds like he's training with the squad.

From T & A website:

T&A also posted Sunday's EIGHTEEN man squad yesterday. Leaving a spot free in the untrimmed aquad? Is there still nothing solid about Tonga signing or regarding the status of his visa? Holding off posting week 22 prediction until it's known whether Willie makes the 17.

Re: Willy Tonga : Sat Jul 15, 2017 12:35 pm  

I don't get the idea of leaving a spot open. Don't you have to have the player registered by midday on the Friday to play in Sunday's game anyway? So if they didn't name him in the squad, he wasn't registered, so can't be added anyway. So that's the point?

Re: Willy Tonga : Sat Jul 15, 2017 12:58 pm  

HamsterChops wrote:

I don't get the idea of leaving a spot open. Don't you have to have the player registered by midday on the Friday to play in Sunday's game anyway? So if they didn't name him in the squad, he wasn't registered, so can't be added anyway. So that's the point?

Dunno what time on Friday the T&A posted the squad or when it was given to them. Bongser is merely asking for solid facts

Re: Willy Tonga : Sat Jul 15, 2017 1:04 pm  

Lawrence Okanga also on twitter saying he has signed for Bulls