Yes, Chris Nero and Michael Worrincy were particularly fine specimens in this regard. Nothing wrong with L'Estrange's rough diamond look, mind. There is also a similar line with gentlemen who are, shall we say, carrying too much timber in the midriff area. When Solomona was at the club it sent out too many mixed messages about the appropriate build for the professional sportsman. Body art should not be discouraged if it is a tasteful collage of cultural patterns and symbols as it is with many antipodean players but the club should vet any new tattoos featuring mis-spelled words (Mr. Sammut) or look like the player's offspring have scrawled on their arms with crayons (Mr. Peacock).

Based on current sales numbers are the club confident of physically selling up to or more season tickets than last year? No pledges but actual sales.

I do have 1 question for the club.....

When creating a match-day experience, I always enjoyed the build up to the players exiting the tunnel. This also included the fireworks at the beginning of each home game.

I always felt that the noise, coupled with the smoky atmosphere contributed to the feeling that a battle was about to commence. The drifting smog replicated that of a battlefield and I found myself 'buying into' what was about to erupt.

I often felt the lack of fireworks at the game, coupled with the 'quiet' Odsal crowd, maybe had an influence on the performances of certain players as they appeared to lack motivation at times. As the game would simply 'kick off' to a silent atmosphere, this cannot be helpful to the players.

To summarise - I know it's hardly going to be at the top of your agenda, but, can we have fireworks at all home games, not just when we play the Rhinos (maybe also Wigan & Cas).

Thanks for your time

David

With Tom Burgess having an excellent debut season can you confirm that we are negotiating/about to announce a new long term deal?

Do we have a non fed spot remaining?

Have we targeted a player(s) to replace Lynch from ESL or the NRL?

Good question!!

If the OP is genuine, a sensible move on the part of the club assuming it doesn't become a shooting gallery for nonsense.

Aye.

This method of communicating with the fans of the Bulls is to be applauded. I intend to mod this thread with great zeal as it doesn't deserve to be trolled.

Can anyone confirm if this is the real deal? I'm a bit pants at checking IPs.

Cant help with IP's as I think only mods can see them, and unless you also know the bulls IP address to compare with its not much help. at least part of the text of the Original post is included word for word in teamcard announcement that went up on club website today and im pretty certain that only went up this afternoon so I'd guess OP is kosher. Only way to 100% know is to email duffy,bennett or ducket I guess. must be sanctioned by them although judging by one of earlier responses I'd guess theyve delegated monitoring the thread to someone more junior.

It won't tell you anything anyway. They'll have some business tarrif connection from a normal ISP, and when you do a lookup on it it will appear like one of many businesses from the same ISP. This assumes they're even at work and not doing it from home, their phone or any other kind of connection.

During the recent science festival we had an open WiFi in some parts of the university. Anyone connected from that would have had a Bradford University IP address. All it meant was they were physically on campus.

There's a section on Reddit that hosts threads of the form "I am this <famous/interesting/questionworthy> person, ask me a question" where people who've been in the news, or have a particular kind of job, etc field questions about the thing that makes them interesting. Verification there consists of a picture of them holding a card with their username and the time and date.

Or somebody could go the antiquated phone call route. There must be enough people on here who Duffy can call out by name to verify.

The OSV is a massive project which can now only be run on private investment but it is still very much on the cards.
We aim to have shirts for 2012 available ASAP and are liaising with our suppliers on a daily basis. When the delivery date is confirmed, we will get it straight on our website.
Sales of membership are going well at the minute and I would be pretty confident in saying we should reach a similar number as 2011, which would be just awesome.
I would be given the sack if I discussed individual contract negotiations on here! The long term aim is always to maintain the best squad. Read into this what you will but all team news is put straight onto the bulls website/facebook/twitter the very second we can announce. This goes for any other signings/contract extentions.
I am DEFINATELY going to pass on r.e. fireworks - basically, it comes down to budget but I would love to have fireworks at each game.
YouTube is another area of particular interest for me personally as I was the person who has setup and implimented what we currently have. The idea was always to expand on the basics that we are currently doing so simply put, yes this will continue and hopefully grow. Any ideas for content are welcome (subject to budget/resources etc) - skill tips from players & coaches and community videos have already been put into the pot of ideas.
This has again been made more accessable with our new found ability to embed the videos to our official website (as per the Pledge MMXII video).
I have no way of proving my credentials on here but, as a previous poster said, if I was an imposter, why would I choose the subject of TeamCard points? ON THAT SUBJECT, please go online to the TeamCard website and see the different ways you can earn points through online shopping.
You can get discount on merchandise and tickets; The club is provided another source of revenue which we can invest. IT'S A WIN/WIN SITUATION!
Hull KR also use TeamCard and it really works well for both the club and the fans. There is one guy who earns enough points through buying and selling on eBay that he gets 8 FREE season tickets and the club still gets the money for them from eBay.
Thanks for your time in reading such a long post

Will JCT600 still be our main sponsor next season? I had heard a rumour that they wouldn't be...

Teamcard, schmeamcard. We want baseless, irresponsible transfer gossip.

Im not convinced by any progress on OSV (thought it had been officially canned?), I'd like to see some movment on the plan B we were told we have but I won't hold my breath, just hope that realistic and acheiveble goals are being worked on.

Shirts being out before Christmas should be a priority I think.

As for the youtube channel, one improvement (from a selfish point of view) would be for the offical channel to carry a subscription to the Bullbuilder highlights channel in my sig! Hopefully we can see some more games and wins on that next year, and we've subscribed to the official channel.

Sorry to sound cynical, but I'm not convinced the OP is genuinely posting on behalf of the club. If he/she is genuine then simply come out in a reply and confirm who you are within the structure of the organisation. If it is Stuart Duffy, for example, why not just say so?

Also if the poster could learn how to use the carriage return, and format his posts a bit more professionally, then it would a bit more authority to what he says

Why did we have so few academy players signed on though. Fair enough there isn't a lot to choose from in the BSA but the club arn't limited to only this area, or are they? So why?

What is the clubs' view in regards to the recent departure of Andy Lynch and what plans are afoot to get some replacements in? Are there quality replacements being scouted? Is anyone in the pipeline?

Is there a possibility that Langley will be played at prop next season?

What colour will the change kit be next season?

Will we spend full cap next season? If not, why not?

The pledge for next season has probably exceeded all expectations after the debacle of the last season. What do the club plan to do in order to ensure that the fans are being rewarded for their loyalty?

Next years wingers? Any idea?

Will we be bombarding the left wing of Widnes next season given that they have signed Patrick Ah Van?

Is Luke Gale seen as our first choice goal kicker next season?

What are the realistic expectations for 2012 and how confident are the club of meeting these goals?

Sorry to hi jack your questions Eddie, but quite honestly if a pretty generous question on the timescales of the replacements for Lynch and Raynor cannot be answered a bit more openly, whats the point? Let me do the answering for officialbulls: Raynor caught us out, so its going to be weeks to months, Lynch we have been working on so its going to weeks to months. Offiicialbulls problem isnt going to be the trolls, its going to be the genuine, informed (ish) question askers.

Interesting.........

And there may be a point here but strangely enough MY questions are the hijacked ones. My paranoia is getting worse it seems....



However, can you clarify MWB? Were these acceptable questions or was this just done cos I asked them?

I think your getting a bit boring now mate. This whole "i'm getting picked on cos i've got health issues" is starting to get on peoples wick.

I've stayed out of the whole range of arguments for long enough but I cannot go on reading your constant paranoia any longer. If anything you make the situation worse for yourself.

Can I make a suggestion that you take some time away, get well and come back when you are not going to take some of the different points of view to heart.

1(0000000000) ish.

Do the club actually give a toss about the on field performances/fans or is Teamcard points their only concern?

How did we manage to get done for cheating the cap yet the likes of Wire and Wigan are (allegedly) using an elastic salary cap yet appear to get away with it? Are we challenging this? Are people aware of it? How do they get away with it?

Do the club freely admit that the McNamara youth policy plan was a complete myth? If so, why was it pedalled for so long?

Re the above, what is the point of a youth policy if we end up losing our so called future stars as soon as someone else comes calling?

It was a genuine question, with a bit of irony thrown in........

Dear me.

Still, thanks for proving my previous points. Good man!

WTF anybody really believe this OP rubbish?
Starting post with "someone has suggested to me" -yeah right!

Then a whole load of questions asked that have either not been answered at all or with non specific or soporific answers.
The OSV is still very much on the cards apparently !!!! What in it's entirety as planned?

If the Bulls shirts are being discussed with the suppliers on a daily basis. Does that answer the question as to whether they will be, or intended to be available in 56 days time for Xmas. No, cos this poster has no idea.

There is one consistent forced point in the OPs posts and that's to promote the Club Card.

Come on Officialbulls, prove me wrong and give us one nugget of information that we can believe, and assure me that you are not just a promotional agent for Club Card