Announced here: [urlhttps://www.bradfordbulls.co.uk/article/52121/-squad-numbers-announced[/url

McNally at no.1. Guess that puts paid to all those rumours of him going back to Leigh.

Interesting number 8 too, with the youngster Liam Kirk making it his own.

So McNally is staying for now. Big vote confidence for Liam Kirk to get the 8 jersey.

Liam Kirk has had the number 8 jersey since start of 2017 season.
Fully deserved in my opinion

Wonder why Rhys Evans is Number 31? Unless they were all decided before he was signed?

I honestly thought Milton had left.

I thought George Milton left but he is named in squad numbers.

Tell you what, we've some depth in that squad for the long hard season ahead. More importantly, depth in all positions.

I agree. Very good squad for our first season back in the Championship.

There were also 6 players introduced this morning as members of the Reserve team . They haven't been given squad numbers but Kear said they will be given one as and when they play a First team game, either league or cup. Not sure if I remember them all correctly but I think they were:
Alix Stephenson
Tom Doyle
Elliot Culling
Trea O'Sullivan
Luke Punton
Cobi Green.
Seemed a good idea and the lads concerned were all up for it.

Sorry- Josh Rickett as well.

Well Chalmers comments on the website said that we had 22 FT players, 14 PT players and 27 academy players.
So that's a decent sized squad and it's got a good balance with depth across all positions as well as an open door for the young lads to take the step up.

As I've said before, I think this team has enough about it to be pushing for a play-off spot come the end of 2019

That looks like a very competitive championship squad - nice balance to it too.

Should we be worrying about how we're funding it, or just let uncle Marwan take care of us in the background

Makes you wonder doesn't it?

Either than Marvin Kockrash link is alive and well(for me there's to much for it to be a coincidence), or AC is knuckle deep in Jam and Gravy.

I think he has more cash than you would give him credit for

He probably does. Seems to have done well for himself. Always good to see.

I see scofield has picked us to finish 8th, with Leigh finishing 2nd.

So it’s back to SL next year for us then

Where can we read these predictions? Thanks

It's from the League Express.

From the reserves/19s games I watched at our place last year, Alix Stephenson was rightly getting a lot of plaudits, but I thought Elliot Culling has the potential to be a fantastic centre for us. Big lad and defensively can really put a shot on. Doyle is also very very strong, very much in the mould of a young Terry Newton

I mean, even by Schoeys standards i'm baffled at that. If he has us finishing 8th then fair enough. But Leigh 2nd? They have around 16 players signed up at this moment in time. Ridyard is the stand out, but the rest? Bracek & Thornley from Swinton who finsihed bottom last year? Higham who I believe has come out of retirement. A fair few young kids from SL clubs. They've no FB and only 1 HB with the season 6 weeks away. We know all from experience how hard it is for young players week in week out in this league. 27 game regular season plus the CC and/or 1895 Cup.

Happy for us to fly under the radar

This is guy who said London would finish 9th last year

How did that work out, Gazza?

Like Ellery Hanley, Gary Schofield is an utter playing legend of the game, who couldn't coach for toffee and became a professional talker of crap.

Saying we will finish 8th with Leigh 2nd, is rather eccentric.

Do you think he does it just for attention? As a (supposed?) journalist you'd expect the editors would prefer him to be slightly believable, or be at least in the ball park. As for his 'radar', I suspect it was built during the second world war, suffered some bomb damage and hasn't been repaired since.

To be honest I'm not sure he has the cunning to act the agent provocateur. I think he's just a not particularly bright gobe. But maybe I should get down off the fence on this one.

IMO I think he does it to try and keep himself relevant, keep his name in RL fans mouths and it seems to work doesn't it



Some of the things he comes out with are baffling, maybe he just throws wild predictions out there in the hope that one day the unthinkable might happen and he may get something right! I think in all fairness to the guy, watching the 40/20 podcasts, he does talk a lot of sense in the discussions he takes part in, he just goes and spoils himself by making silly predictions.