Is this confirmed or just pure speculation?

Oscar Thomas given the Number 1 shirt.

Certainly suggests he's seen as a fullback more than a halfback.

James Clare given 22

Seems late in the day to be announcing them on a drip feed basis. There will be people out there waiting to get a shirt number and name printed and are hoping there favourite isn't last or they won't get it done in time. Poss then end up not bothering which is lost income

The squad numbers is. There is no other shirt presentation night been arranged like in previous years but marketing for the event says the entire squad will be presented on the night.

I am however purely speculating on the new signing though. Its just a hunch I have but there always tends to be a surprise announcement at these kind of events. Last year there was a few but I can see there been room for a late one in ahead of the season.

Genuinely can't see them not signing some kind of half back before the season starts now that they've not offered a contract to Jacks. Surely????

Matty Blythe is Number 15

Can the club even print shirts? If so, you have to question the logic of leaving it so late to announce numbers and lose out on money that could have been made when shirts were sold already.

Anyway, last one for today been announced, Adam O'Brien unsurprisingly is number 9.

They certainly used to be able to print shirts. Option to order them online with a name printed on disappeared of website when OK took over. But they still had machine because you could have them done if you went into shop. Did it that way that way but took nearly half hour for two shirts so haven't bothered since. Seems an obvious revenue stream that club is missing out on. Used to get both our shirts printed home and away so an £10 x4 income on shirt sale for club. Multiply that £40 by a few hundred people doing it and clubs missing out on £10k upwards of revenue.

Or the trick is to get supporters back in the shop... Potentially spending additional money. It's a ploy not unheard of in retail.

Me and my family are Bolton Wanderers fans and a few years ago my brother got his shirt and got Jääskeläinen printed on the back in honour of his favourite player, goalkeeper Jussi Jääskeläinen.

Was walking into the Reebok Stadium with him one day and we heard a little lad loudly ask his dad "Why can that man have Jääskeläinen on the back of his shirt and I can only have Jussi?"

His dad, equally loudly, responded, "Because he's a fat b*****d, we could only fit Jussi on yours!!"

I still wind him up about that

For me that's the missed trick. Squad presentation night is usually well attended, fills the middle part of the coral stand, should have done it and set up mobile shop like they did at season ticket collection day and would have taken further monies. #buybulls

Perhaps it's my lazy nature, but no way would I go back to the shop just for that. If I was planning on having it printed and numbers weren't announced when I bought my shirt, I just wouldn't bother.

That being said, I've not had a shirt printed since Jimmy Lowes was playing.

I'm not convinced the strategy of the shop would be that clever anyway, they don't seem to understand how important an online shop is these days and think it's ok, people will phone or pop in instead. Not quite understanding some people don't live nearby, and you can't phone to order something when you don't know what there is to buy because most of it isn't shown on the website.

In fairness i think the online shop is being updated due to all the new gear (Which IMO is top draw this year)
Should have been sorted in the off-season but oh well.

It's been offline for a while now, and before that it was massively out of date. IMO they really should devote some time to it to get it up and running properly and quickly. Doesn't matter how good the gear is if people don't know it's there.

Number 31 is James Mendeika

The online store has been rubbish for ages. Fixing that would definitely bring in a decent amount of money to the club. Wouldn't help my bank account mind.

Am I being miserable or is this squad announcement thing a tad tedious? I'm all for building suspense but this is going to drag on and on and on and on and on and on...

Can't see the point unless they're building towards a surprise at the end? Having said that, the club's perception of a good announcement appears to be poles apart from what the fans would like at the moment.

I agree. I quite like the drip feeding announcements like how Widnes did theirs (every 15 minutes for a day). But every 2 hours for however many days they're doing it is just dragging it out.

Didn't think there was anything wrong with the online store last season. Needs sorting out soon though.

Is the squad number thing still going on?

Jeez!

6 yesterday, 6 today. From 10am to 8pm. If it carries on at that rate, I would say it's Sunday midday when the last one comes out. As I said, massively drawn out.

Mitch Clark Number 20

As a fan who doesn’t live in Bradford and can only really get to Odsal on matchdays I find the current online shop incredibly hit and miss – emphasis on miss. If you are wanting your standard home/away kits no problem but any sort of new stock or special offers then it’s an incredibly frustrating experience. Often the club will advertise a sale or new product as “on sale at the club shop and online from tomorrow” – only for it never to appear online. When the first 50% sale was on around may last year, I was told on twitter that the hoodie I was looking for would go online but it never did.

Likewise when we had the limited edition army shirt, I placed an order online at 9.30am that was accepted and money taken out of my account to make sure I got one. The Bulls twitter account were announcing the shirts were still available (including in the size I had ordered) a couple of hours later before a sell out in the afternoon. After a couple of weeks there was no sign of the shirt so when I enquired as to where it was they gave the excuse that they must have sold the last XL one before I placed my order. I pointed out that they were still advertising availability of XL two hours after I placed my order and whatever the truth, it isn’t the best way of doing business with people who actively want to give money to the club. Although I did get my money back, I don’t think this point was satisfactorily resolved and it’s something the club need to look at (whoever it was looking at my order, it wasn’t one of the two usual ladies I see in the shop on a matchday).

I do know you can ring up for this stuff, but that isn’t really the point. Don’t really like having a go at the backroom staff of the club publicly, but it is something that is just so standard these days and it’s just an easy way of getting money in the club from people who aren’t currently local.

Well I think it has always been shoite. If you walk in the shop, it is packed with loads of stuff. But on the few occasions I looked at the online shop, either the overwhelming majority of items weren't there, or else they were well-hidden where I couldn't find them.

It's not hard to do an online shop. I sadly spend far too much online so I should know. I just don't see why you can't put each item you stock in one or more categories, and have a nice subdivided online shop with everything searchable and easily findable and all available. Getting somebody to build a proper online shop would surely pay for itself in a breath. Buying online is a breeze. Finding time to trail to Odsal is not.

An online shop should obviously (and very easily) be linked to the computer record of stock, so once sold out (in store or online) it shows as out of stock online.

I hear the club are working on getting the online store up and running soon.

About time.