Hey stop right there, I've never suggested that, the point I'm making is that he was the one who continued playing, I'm sure he new the risks as everyone else does in the sport, as for a wheeel chair your the one talking about that, not me

Knew.

At the end of the day Luke is a normal everyday family man with kids to feed and a mortgage to pay etc, getting paid to do what he loved, if he had stopped playing his income would have stopped !

These guys are not footballers and still have to work once their careers end so obviously he played on as long as possible to keep his income up.

I'm sure lots of people on these boards and in RL grounds up and down the country take risks in their work but 'not doing it' is not necessarilly an option.

Luke was gutted when he had to stop playing as it was his life.

and as for the 'not being a super hero' bit, i disagree, everyone who ever pulls on a Rugby league shirt for our entertainment and risk their livelyhoods, bodies and even lives is a super hero.

I'll be glad when we can talk about the rugby itself.


Anyway. Any RA&B posters that want to meet up beforehand some of us will be in the pub in the station from 2ish. The King's Head I think it's called.

Yes let's get this party started lol

Good plan Bullseye.

Bulls team sheet leaked:

1. Trialist
2. Caro
3. Trialist
4. Trialist
5. Ryan
6. Pryce
7. Keyes
8. Trialist
9. Halafihi
10. Trialist
11. Trialist
12. Trialist
13. Trialist
SUBS:
Stuart Duffy.

You missed "you're"

What time is the team news out for this?

All over twitter. Very young squad

Yeah, thank you. I have just seen it.

Think it might be a long afternoon...

As it stands, relegation is nailed on. Hope the new boss has a plan.

Well, you can add Pryce, Thomas, Ryan, Joseph and Foster to today's squad

But, yeah, we definitely need much more experience in

Best of luck to the young lads getting a run out today!

I hope it's a very, [ivery[/i cunning plan as well. If we're to do well this season it will need to be even more cunning than Foxy McFox's most cunning plan, and he was head of cunning at Oxford university.

Played 5 minutes and not conceded!

well done to the ones that came over today for what is your big day out now at huddersfield



a spirited and determined bradford side today and made it a good contest.

should do well this season with a few more incomings and the new coach, might see you again in sl 2019!

We stayed within our means while you spent money you didn't have to win the trophies which made you such a massive club.

To be fair you strayed into Sheffield's means too but as were both in greenhouses we'd best not start lobbing stones.

No you didn't. You were dragged out of the hole you'd been in for all of then living memory when you were gifted a stadium. You were later fed the remnants of another club to keep you viable. Being terrible for decades garnered enough sympathy for a platform to come from without, and the most solid foundation of that platform is the existence of Huddersfield Town. Without them you'd have been toast over a decade ago, long before a man with money turned up to save you from the perpetual relegation battle you were in even with all that help.

Is that what you call having Mr. Davy bankrolling the club year after year?

Yes. Within our means!

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You're a very bitter and ill informed person at times

And fwiw Town would have been toast a decade ago if it hadn't been for the Giants

I hope that the Bulls can rebuild themselves and get back to Superleague quickly.

Funny how the year 2000 slips your mind. Huddersfield-Sheffield anyone? Bankrolled by a sugar daddy too? Be hilarious if he pulled out. Well no it wouldn't because I wouldn't want to see any club go under. But you get my point. And to be fair at least we have trophies and memories (even if they are heartbreaking) to brag about.

1996 Challenge Cup Final - Robbie Hat-Trick
1997 Challenge Cup Final
1997 SUPER LEAGUE CHAMPIONS
1999 vs. Leeds - SL Record Attendance of 24,020.
1999 Grand Final - Wither's Knock On
2000 Challenge Cup Winners.
2001 Challenge Cup Final
2001 SUPER LEAGUE CHAMPIONS - one of the most dominant finals in SL history.
2002 World Club Champions
2002 Grand Final - Joynt Voluntary Tackle
2003 Challenge Cup Winners - Sinfield Not Taking 2.
2003 SUPER LEAGUE CHAMPIONS - Treble Champions Season (1st Club to achieve that).
2004 World Club Champions
2004 Grand Final
2005 SUPER LEAGUE CHAMPIONS
2006 World Club Champions

Not only that, we have seen the likes of Robbie and Henry Paul, Paul Deacon, The AWESOME FOURSOME, Vainikolo, Viakona, Naylor, Champagne Shontayne, Peacock, Burgess, Morrison, the legend that is the Beaver Steve Menzies and many more world class players grace the pitch of Odsal.

Now tell me again, even with a sugar daddy nowadays, what have you brought to the table? You struggled like a dying horse at the foot of the table in 1998, 1999, 2000 (even though you merged) and in 2001. Since then you have done nothing. Okay, I will give you two CC Final appearances, getting hammered in one. You're average attendance last year in SL was 5,422. Only in front of Wakefield (5,332) and Salford (3,630). To put it in perspective in our last year in SL, we knew we were going down, we knew we had a paper thin squad when the likes of Sammut, Carvell and Scruton left in pre-season and we knew admin loomed yet still managed to average 6,235.

All this without a sugar daddy. You are a joke of a club, you really are

However in all seriousness, I do wish all Yorkshire teams to do well......even if I dare say it......Leeds

I want the game of RL to prosper and have every game well attended with great rugby on show.

I'm as informed as I need to be. Any more than that is an extravagance.