Re: Luke Robinson Testimonial game : Thu Jan 19, 2017 7:26 pm  

HamsterChops wrote:

They haven't included Gaskell, Clough or Ferguson in the squad. And yet there's still Simpson, Roberts, Mellor & O'Brien who are ex Bradford.

Full of em, I tells ya.

I'm expecting plenty of "he's one of our own" chants from the Bulls fans to O'Brien, Mellor, etc.

Re: Luke Robinson Testimonial game : Thu Jan 19, 2017 7:33 pm  

And all 4 of them were in our academy systems from a young age. 3 of them even played 1st team! Has that Hudds squad got more Bulls academy products than their own?

Re: Luke Robinson Testimonial game : Thu Jan 19, 2017 7:54 pm  

Bulls Boy 2011 wrote:

And all 4 of them were in our academy systems from a young age. 3 of them even played 1st team! Has that Hudds squad got more Bulls academy products than their own?

Sam Wood?

Re: Luke Robinson Testimonial game : Thu Jan 19, 2017 7:58 pm  

brearley84 wrote:

yep abit like when you used to laugh at us after giving us a beating all those years, oh how times have changed

Mind you, back then we were beating everyone and ending up with trophies. Where as you beat us and end up near bottom of division so things haven't changed that much.
See you in the middle 8's if we qualify. If not see you in the league next year.Always good when you recruit from a team that finished 5th in CH.

Re: Luke Robinson Testimonial game : Thu Jan 19, 2017 8:11 pm  

paulwalker71 wrote:

Sam Wood?

It's a different Sam Wood.

Re: Luke Robinson Testimonial game : Thu Jan 19, 2017 8:25 pm  

Bulls Boy 2011 wrote:

And all 4 of them were in our academy systems from a young age. 3 of them even played 1st team! Has that Hudds squad got more Bulls academy products than their own?

I think there are 10/11 club developed players in Sunday's squad. (Other club developed players like Cudjoe , Lawrence and young Wardle not selected) Last season I think there were 13 club developed players in The Giants squad, did the Bulls have 7 in theirs in 2016?

I am pleased that the Giants were able to give some of your young players SL contracts that last couple of times the Bulls went into administration.

It is great you have a successful academy. The Giants development system is better than you would credit.

Re: Luke Robinson Testimonial game : Thu Jan 19, 2017 8:33 pm  

You can tell people realise we aren't dead anymore!

Re: Luke Robinson Testimonial game : Thu Jan 19, 2017 9:01 pm  

jools wrote:

This game will give the new club some much needed revenue also. All the best, hopefully this regime is the one who will, at the very least, provide stability- if not the successes the club witnessed in early SL.

No it won't, 100% of the money on Sunday will go to Luke.

Cibaman wrote:

Is there a cut off point for deciding if this game will go ahead? Do we have 17 players available and prepared to play? A coach (and a team bus)?

This game IS going ahead, it was confirmed by Bradford on Tuesday evening.

Re: Luke Robinson Testimonial game : Thu Jan 19, 2017 9:46 pm  

Does anyone else think this may actually boost the crowd for Sunday? The first reincarnation of some kind of Bradford team, after so much doubt, plus the "rubber necking" mentality of people my persuade some to go that may ordinarily give it a miss

Re: Luke Robinson Testimonial game : Thu Jan 19, 2017 9:54 pm  

debaser wrote:

Does anyone else think this may actually boost the crowd for Sunday? The first reincarnation of some kind of Bradford team, after so much doubt, plus the "rubber necking" mentality of people my persuade some to go that may ordinarily give it a miss

Hope so, Luke deserves a big crowd for what he gave to the game, plus lots of things haven't exactly gone to plan so far in his testimonial so would be great for him.