So, is there a 16, or has it been abducted by aliens? It is clear that this is a mystery too hard for normal men. I have called in a couple of friends to solve the mystery of whether the shirt numbers are as presented, or as claimed in News on the website. They are all over it. I will report back soon

Reserved for Mexico?

Was meant for Witterstein?

Reserved for SBW when, in a totally unexpected masterstroke, he signs for the club he has wanted to play for since before he was born, nay before he was even conceived...

Wildcard shirt available for FA or anyone else who fancies propping when our limited front row options get fekked by injuries?

They ran out of number "6"s in the club shop?

Someone at Odsal can't count?

The club Feng Sui practitioner has ruled that there is bad joss with no. 16?

It's a club ploy to get the fans guessing...bit like find the blue smartie?


The truth is out there...

It seems to me that 16 was originally Winterstein's number. When he left, nobody thought much of it.

Come the Presentation night, they realised Winterstein wasn't here any more and just missed out his number.

Whoever was in charge of the media release though, had the list in a nice Excel Spreadsheet, where someone hadn't been bothered to type in the individual numbers, they simply put the formula in for "Cell Above + 1" and Filled Down. Ooo look, I've saved myself a load of typing work by getting Excel to count for me!
Time to send them out, oh b*gger, Winterstein isn't here any more. That's ok, I'll just delete the row. Excel recalculates all the people below him, and they are suddenly given one squad number up from where they originally were. Nobody notices. Media release gets sent out.

Ok I may have dramatised ever so slightly, but I wouldn't be surprised if that isn't far from the truth.

At least if they haven't printed the numbers onto the shirts yet though, they can just go with the mistake ones sent out in the media release, and pretend the 200 people at the shirt presentation were victims of a mass hallucination.

It must be said though that 16 is a really gobsmackingly interesting number. After a whole internet of research, the top interesting facts about the number 16 that Jeeves comes up with are the astonishing (please be sure you are sitting down before reading further)...




As fun, I thought sticking pins in my eyes couldn't be bettered, but the ounces thing ...

Sixteen is a Polish band that represented Poland in the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest

If Adele had been a Bull, her debut album would probably have accidentally been called '16'

16 is the number printed on the front of the Johnny Hero (one of the earliest action figures) jogging suit

There is a road called the A16

Quote ="Ferocious Aardvark" "What more do we want"? Er, the squad to be on the squad page! It ain't rocket science. And you wouldn't need any pictures from any photoshoot. Until you get them, just yer actual squad would do fine. They could even have copy and pasted it. Your suggestion is so lame it's embarrassing. On the "news" page there's a menu of about 20 items and "Cummins confirms squad numbers" is somewhere amongst that lot, are you seriously suggesting that this is enough to compensate for the fact that there is no mention of this on the actual Squad page? Anyway, as you seem to be in the know, can you clear another thing up for me. In Franny's stated confirmation, it says that Danny Addy is number 16. yet at the presentation evening he got presented number 17. What more do I want? Well, maybe we could start with the answer to that? I also thought that the new shirts looked awful. As I predicted when they were released, from any distance you just don't get any sense of red and amber being important at all, they all blur into a sort of dark purple stripe look; and from the back, they are basically just plain white. Worst looking kit for ages. Ok for casual wear but as a team strip I hate it.'" www.bradfordbulls.co.uk/squad/first_team Happy now? Moutains out of molehills springs to mind.

Quote ="Ferocious Aardvark" "What more do we want"? Er, the squad to be on the squad page! It ain't rocket science. And you wouldn't need any pictures from any photoshoot. Until you get them, just yer actual squad would do fine. They could even have copy and pasted it. Your suggestion is so lame it's embarrassing. On the "news" page there's a menu of about 20 items and "Cummins confirms squad numbers" is somewhere amongst that lot, are you seriously suggesting that this is enough to compensate for the fact that there is no mention of this on the actual Squad page? Anyway, as you seem to be in the know, can you clear another thing up for me. In Franny's stated confirmation, it says that Danny Addy is number 16. yet at the presentation evening he got presented number 17. What more do I want? Well, maybe we could start with the answer to that? I also thought that the new shirts looked awful. As I predicted when they were released, from any distance you just don't get any sense of red and amber being important at all, they all blur into a sort of dark purple stripe look; and from the back, they are basically just plain white. Worst looking kit for ages. Ok for casual wear but as a team strip I hate it.'" www.bradfordbulls.co.uk/squad/first_team Happy now? Moutains out of molehills springs to mind.

They've even shown Diskin's sponsor as Red Amber &Black!!

That's quick work - anyone know who has the "007" shirt - we could do with an enforcer

Looks like their going with mass hallucination excuse for numbers announced at presentation evening then

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Giants again at Magic weekend,going on last seasons league table that's 1 v 9,that's good

What? That the Bulls squad appears on the Bulls Squad page?





It was and remains an embarrassment - the numbers still do not all correspond to the shirts that the players were presented with) - it is hardly a "molehill". But nobody has built it up into a "mountain" either, a number of people have pointed out and commented on the confusion, and rightly so. What's your problem?

Well, yeah. Seen as that's what you were complaining about. So much so that it was apparently a disgrace to have to look through the news entries just because they weren't on the squad page yet.



An "embarrassment"? An "insult to players and staff"? Bit over dramatic don't you think? So somebody has made a typo on either the list given for the squad numbers for the e-mail or haven't had chance to finish the page on the website yet. Is it really that big of a deal. I mean, what difference does it actually make? You'er right, it's hardly a molehill. A molehill would look like a mountain compared to this.

You won't win.

He wont. Pedantic Dickheads come to mind

I have found the mountain: Wikipedia says that Elliot Kear is 5'2" tall and 23 stone!!! A new mobile prop in case MM doesnt get a visa

You (deliberately) miss the point that the list in "news" wasn't the same as the shirt presentation evening, so looking in "news" would only add to confusion. You say it was a "disgrace"; it wasn't, it just wouldn't help you to know what the real numbers were.


Don't think anyone could argue that it wasn't. Presenting numerous players with shirts which turn out not to be their numbers? That's not embarrassing? Why are you even trying to argue that? I don't get it.


If anybody had said that then yes. Nobody did, though.

One person [idid [/isay "if I'm honest, a bit of an insult to both players and fans". The context, and the wording, makes it clear that I wasn't seeking to overplay it. A pretty mild, qualified, and fair rebuke. Not even a bit "dramatic". You deliberately tried to cut out the words that don't suit, so you could pretend I made more of it than I did. Ironically, you can't even quote correctly - I never mentioned "staff".

It was what it was, and now they fixed it. There's only you trying to go on and on.

And [iI'm[/i the [id[/iickhead?

I didn't deliberately miss anything. You were the one who seemed so aggrieved about the fact that the squad page hadn't been updated and that alternatively someone would have to look up the news article instead. That was my point, was it really such a big deal to have to look somewhere else in the meantime?



An incident that brought the club into disrepute would be an embarrassment. Putting a wrong number up on a screen, not so much. In my opinion anyway.



That one was indeed my mistake, and so I apologise my mistyping it (staff instead of fans). God forbid typos should ever occur. Still, I don't seen how it was an insult, or "a bit of an insult" if were being that fussy, just because somebody made a mistake either at the presentation evening or on the e-mail. Obviously none of us can speak for the players, but as a fan, I wasn't insulted by it in the slightest. It's a mistake, they happen, as I just inadvertently showed





I stated my opinion, you replied and I replied to you. It's called a conversation. Hardly going on and on that. Anyway, like you said, it is what it is, obviously we shall have to agree to disagree.

So let me get this straight there is an argument brewing about the club not updating the squad list very quickly???

Looks like it. To be fair though FA could have an argument in an empty room.

No he couldn't.

Just once I'd like it if you stopped being a joke and a disgrace.