just heard the end of an announcement on blunderside but didnt catch who

anyone know?
may have been a dobbin or one of ours

Someone from Bradford has posted a thread on here claiming that DOwes has gone there and asking for opinions.

Posted in the rumours thread this morning by yours truly. Was in paper this morning.

The announcement on humberside was about Chev Walker signing for Bradford.

Chev Walker?

He put it on twitter!

its both of them dowes and walker www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/rugby-le ... 6492913.jp

its both of them dowes and walker www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/rugby-le ... 6492913.jp

How did you know i'm from Bradford? i might live in Leeds

Most worrying thing about that article is that Hull offered Walker a deal.

Not doubting his talent, but the bloke hasn't played for a year and has yet to prove he can cut it after a horrific broken leg.

Too many twits....

Dowes and Walker, looks like Bradford are going all out to break their consecutive loss record next season with those signings.

To be fair; at one stage Walker looked like he was goign to be top notch. Dowes is a journeyman.

Doesnt journeyman normally mean loads of clubs because no one wants to keep him?

I thought journeyman was a tag much like "model pro", "good trainer" and so on which means that they're solid & steady without ripping any trees up. Or breaking tackles for that matter

Thats what I thought

Long trip mate!!! 8 years for the bus to come,you watch, another two will be along in a minute.

I thought the term journeyman could be used to describe both a player who moved from club to club or a player of everyday kind of quality who pulls up no trees. I even got a dictionary definition which would appear to confirm my suspicions that the term can be applied in the way I used it, see example 2.

jour·ney·man   /ˈdʒɜrnimən/ Show Spelled[jur-nee-muhn Show IPA
–noun, plural -men.
1. a person who has served an apprenticeship at a trade or handicraft and is certified to work at it assisting or under another person.
2. any experienced, competent but routine worker or performer.
3. a person hired to do work for another, usually for a day at a time.

Dowes has had a poor second half to this season, in fact he's getting knocked backwards in the tackle quite severely these days. Maybe its a loss in form, maybe the game is now too fast for him or maybe the years are taking their toll. He's a long way behind O'Meley and Moa. Its a shame because he's one of the few FC players with a good injury record, and I've never heard anything bad about him off the field. If we've got someone better lined up, then good luck Ewan and thanks for Cardiff

It's the International phonetic alphabet spelling I think; so people who use a different alphabet (so wouldn't recognise jur-nee-mun) can make the sound of the word.

The jur-nee-muhn is the pronouncing.

Journeyman is more tended to someone whose had more clubs than Tiger Woods usually

Chev Walker, nothing to do with us then.