Somebody being ME on another thread!!

I'm sending royalties via email.........

Gale just tweeted... he reckons it'll be 8 weeks or so!

1 kearney
2 Kear
3 Lulia
4 Whitehead
5 Crookes
6 jeffries
7 Sammut
8 kopczac
9 Diskin
10 Hargreaves
11 Joseph
12 Burgess
13 langley
subs
l estrange
addy
bateman
platt

Are only 1st choice 2nd rower in the centres? 2 props in the 2nd row, and a very weak bench

From what I understand. Jefferies/sammut. But neither are great communicators/organisers and both don't have great kicking games. Are we going to struggle for field position and organisation?... We'll see I suppose. COYB

BJ isn't a bad kicker on his day and he can organise the side. He probably won't do it consistently for 8 weeks though!!

Not sure about that...BJ didn't really do a good job of either last year

He did in patches. The pack need to give him half a chance though, unlike a lot of last year. He isn't the type of player who can just magic up a special winning play.

He has shown in the past that can do it for one game. The problem with Jefferies is that he tends to be awful for the next 5-6 games afterwards. Going on past form Jefferies will have a blinder tonight against his old club then disappear until Luke Gale returns.

Hopefully Sammut and BJ will strike up a decent partnership. BJ is the better kicker of the two for sure, he just needs to find a level of consistency

I've been told Gale WILL need surgery. 6-8 weeks approx.

Been announced officially on the Bulls site. Gale to have surgery this weekend and out for 6-8 weeks

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My heart was in my mouth initially when I read the word operation, but we all knew it was 6-8 weeks anyway so it's not the worst news in the world.

Still a bad blow for us and bloody typical it should happen to our main playmaker.

Hope it doesn't mean we'll be playing a down the middle style like at Wakey for the next 8 weeks.

If it works

Agreed

I'll take wins over and above throwing the ball around like a basketball and getting beaten

The Harlem Globetrotters never lost.

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But they never would have lost is the point. They were so good, you could have nuked 'em and they would still have won. I once saw a TV game they played where they were all heavily sedated, bound hand and foot, blindfolded and their feet were nailed to the floor, and they still won by 180 points. It was impressive let me tell you.

Same here but the gameplan versus Wakey won't get us many wins as we effectively ignored our backline. Hopefully we'll make proper use of our backs in weeks to come, especially when we have Purtell and Lulia together in the centres. It'd be barmy to trundle it up the middle with them in the side.

Except that post will be 2 weeks old by the time he has his op!!

... during which time the diagnosis seems to have been, er, 100% confirmed, and the only additional factor is that the subsequent scan revealed that sadly the injury correctly diagnosed was of a severity that requires an op.

Maybe the Bulls med/physio staff do have a clue after all.

That's a bit radical on here - actually claiming someone at the club has a clue...must be wrong, we ought to get rid..

So a 6-8 week layoff has now increased to 8-10 after it has been assessed properly. Whilst its never an exact science, I'd rather wait until its been looked at properly before a timescale is given. Anyway I'm just thankful that the fears of 3 months out have been lifted. Let's hope it's closer to 6 than 8.