well, another promise kept, a reserve side. Not in the form as we may have expected it, but a typical pragmatic approach by Chalo, something is better than nothing. For that alone the tie up is worth it.

I seem to recall Reece Dean leaving them? Assuming that's who you're referring to.



I could see Gary Wheeler coming in for us fairly early. Especially if one of Chisholm or Keyes aren't 100% for the opener. Wheeler himself is massively injury prone so some game time for him would benefit Toronto while their first choice halves are fit, and benefit us while ours are injured. Unless Toronto play him in the centre of course.

I thought that idea had been proposed and rejected some time earlier as not being feasible?

I don't recall the reasoning, but they were certainly going to train at Tong when they were first announced as entering League 1, but then it fell through and they ended up at Brighouse instead.

Aye, hmm yes you are correct. Left for Doncaster. Then again Luke Menzies left last season for professional wrestling but in a recent article it states he's still there :/



I honestly can't see Wheeler coming to us. Would love him to come for a couple of games like as I think he's a good player when fit. If one of them isn't fit for the opener we will go with Smith or Minchella/Halfback and McNally at Fullback.

The feel good factor is returning slowly but we are not completely back to 100% yet so I will accept any bit of help we can get and if it benefits us both then fair enough.

I am happy with what we have been told today and shows that Chalmers is doing his job off the field even though he isn't the most communicative chap we have ever had. That doesn't matter though as long as we improve as a club over the next few seasons.

No longer at Brighouse.They currently train at Manchester University sports complex.Apparently its "state of the art" and was owned by Man City till a couple of years ago.

Menzies is a wrestler now

I'm pretty sure the only announcement about the plan being dropped mentioned some unspecified 'difficulties'. I'd guess the bigest difficulty would have been both clubs needing the facilities at the same time and, if that was the reason, I'm also not really sure how much that effect would be changed by us now being both part and full time for this season.



Of course, it may well have been all the financial stuff going on at the time.

Well,.I really don't like dual reg full stop. However getting out of league 1 at the first attempt is the main priority, so if Chalmers thinks this will help that in the short term then fine, but the sooner we can manage without it the better.

I suspect the dynamic may have changed completely. Sounds like we now do most of the training on an evening with a big chunk of the full time players time been spent on community work. This would leave tong under-utilised during the day.

I have a theory regarding the duel reg...



As the season progresses Toronto will likely have players who are nowhere near selection, but are being dragged half way around the world with the team regardless. Maybe the plan is for such players, especially if England based, to be dual reg’d to Bradford whilst rest of the team are in Toronto. Means they can keep fit and play in either the first or reserve team, but don’t have to be away from families unnecessarily.

Don't Toronto have the majority of their away games in the first half of the season while their stadium is redeveloped? So think this could only work in the first part of the season. No lose situation really unlike last year with Widnes where we were just desperate for players.

We really should be falling in behind our owners now surely. Tribunal over with no come back; good squad,improved greatly today;no penalty points,starting on zero;excellent coach,better than virtually anyone expected;reserve team to keep all fit;new home and away shirts ready before season starts;dual Reg making potentially more players available; no debts (?).

It’s almost as if they are very experienced rugby league people doing their best for us isn’t it. Come on you Bulls,give them your full support.

I’m pretty much with you Thommo with some reservations. Chalmers is slowly getting us going in the right direction and he deserves great credit for landing Kear. I hear we’re approaching 3k season tickets sold so he’s confounded the critics like me that said he’d never manage it.



Before my cup runeth over I do think we need to see how the dual reg pans out before we judge it a success. The last effort with Widnes wasn’t good. Hopefully lessons have been learned, we shall see. The launch of a reserve side is a good thing.



Having shirts available before the season is a bit of a bare minimum anyone would expect so hardly something to go mad about. We don’t know what, if anything, the tribunal cost or what state our accounts are in (anyone know when they’ll be filed?). I suspect we’re living on a shoestring and I hope we’re not running up any debt and the move to the hybrid part time model should save a lot.



I’d say we’re coming along very nicely and I’ve got my season ticket. The next move I’d like to see is an end to the ridiculously badly written press and social media releases. If he does that I’ll be even happier.

There needs to be an end to the bullsh** too for me. The away shirt lies last year were what set me off on a large downward spiral. The latest stuff before the Sheffield game where they came up with blatantly incorrect reasons for why they weren't opening turnstiles (the stuff about Rooley Lane especially, which hasn't been closed in years). Just say the turnstiles/scanners aren't working, we're gonna have to do it manually. Honesty goes a long way. And then of course there's the pricing policy, but I've gone into that enough times without having to repeat myself again.



There's plenty of positives showing up in the last couple of months. They just need to make sure they stop the negatives taking the shine off them. The owners have some way to go before I'll be "falling in behind" them, but it's good to see a lot of people now are doing.

I think many of us have our bullsh** radar highly tuned now after so many chancers have been in charge over the years. So much so that people are less forgiving than they used to be and come out more vociferously when things aren’t right. Perhaps the cobblers about turnstiles is a reaction to that? Maybe they were afraid of the reaction for coming out with an honest “we’re saving some money by not paying turnstile operators by getting you all to buy in advance and we can test some of the technology but it’s not working fully yet” .



I’m a forgiving sort so will give them the benefit of the doubt. I’ve not had the rationale explained to me. Assuming there is one.



I’m less forgiving of the badly written press releases. It’s easy to fix. Get it done!

I'm wholly with Tackler T on this. When you compare the position we are in today with 12 months ago the position is so so much better. Andrew Chalmers must take a lot of credit for this and we should repay him by getting fully behind the club. I know there are still some issues - the main one perhaps communication but generally things are on the up. Like many I am not convinced about dual Reg but John Kear seems enthused by it and that's good enough for me.

I'm fully behind JK and the team but, to be honest mate, if and when club employees start, 'spinning against the management', I'll be ready to start worrying - again!

Whilst you're correct, I've always had a pretty good radar, I just usually stop the response from highlighting such detections











Well I think I'm due to be blocked on Twitter again soon for the same frustrations.... I try to keep quiet, I really do. They just make it so bloody difficult!





Anyway, what position does the new signing article IMPLY that Craig McNally plays?

I was intrigued by yesterday's 'More tomorrow...' on how the 'partnership' will work.



Just looked at the website and there's not much there. If we take COP to be 1700 they have an hour and 20 mins. These are the things for me that can set 'New Bulls' aside from the 'Old Bulls'hit. They need to clarify it today?

The press releases are constantly poor, some like the one the other week calling the academy notorious I complained to the club about (no response). But others I'm less bothered about, like the one this afternoon in the article about the three new academy lads;



"...we decided it was time to give him an opportunity at the Bulls, where he has grabbed and impressed the Academy coaching staff"



So its not what you know or who you know, its how you grab them...just ask Trump.

There's certainly no clue about his squad number.

I'm toying with the idea of going to the friendly on Friday, this will be my first home match since I think Sheffield. So yes, I think a few hearts and minds are being won over but I can't commit to a season ticket. Odsal isn't exactly toddler friendly, particularly in Feb/March so it doesn't work for me personally on such a regular basis.



I hope it isn't going to be chaos at the turnstiles to get in, do I need to pre buy if I don't want to be messing about queuing at the office? And if so, can I literally just do it online an hour or so before kick off?

I ordered for Sheffield on line, got an email with ticket attached, printed it off and walked straight in, stopping for about 10 seconds whilst they scanned it. No problems