Re: Round 1: Featherstone (H) : Tue Jan 29, 2019 5:54 pm  

This is why I've been looking forward to the Championship season. Every game should be a great contest! Really looking forward to Sunday and even though I think we'll win (as PaulWalker said) it's important to not get carried away regardless of the result!

Re: Round 1: Featherstone (H) : Tue Jan 29, 2019 10:34 pm  

Fev always tough. Not much to look at from them. Concentrate on our own game. Home advantage, settled pre season and good form to hopefully count for us.

Re: Round 1: Featherstone (H) : Tue Jan 29, 2019 11:19 pm  

Calum Turner has signed on loan from Cas.

Reckon Fev team will be something like

Turner
Carey
Hardcastle
Teteh
Briscoe
A Boas
W Boas
Cooper
King
Ormondroyd
Davies
Day
Lockwood

Smith
Wheeldon
Maskill
Walters

Re: Round 1: Featherstone (H) : Wed Jan 30, 2019 10:10 am  

paulwalker71 wrote:

I'm definitely staying away from Bulls Banter FB group on Sunday night - it will be one reaction or the other, that's for sure...

Just Sunday???

The board (and anything that is posted by the club in general) is absolute rubbish at the moment. Its like a schizophrenic sh*tstorm of a page... I'm quickly remembering why I left it a few years back. It's either the team is the greatest ever and will smash all opponents with ease, or the club is a disgrace and is fleecing the fans because of super inflated prices or poor quality burgers!!!

And anyone who offers an alternative position is absolutely slaughtered. This board can sometimes have a bit of that but in general people tend to respect there are different views about. On there its crazy!!!

[Bullseye]

Re: Round 1: Featherstone (H) : Wed Jan 30, 2019 11:39 am  

Like a lot of social media it’s a pack mentality and outrage is the default emotion.

Re: Round 1: Featherstone (H) : Wed Jan 30, 2019 12:07 pm  

Bullseye wrote:

outrage is the default emotion.

Frankly I just think this reflects our current political climate

[Bullseye]

Re: Round 1: Featherstone (H) : Wed Jan 30, 2019 12:41 pm  

DrFeelgood wrote:

Frankly I just think this reflects our current political climate

Thank God we have RL to take our minds off that fiasco.

Re: Round 1: Featherstone (H) : Wed Jan 30, 2019 1:20 pm  

Rarefrith wrote:

Calum Turner has signed on loan from Cas.

Reckon Fev team will be something like

Turner
Carey
Hardcastle
Teteh
Briscoe
A Boas
W Boas
Cooper
King
Ormondroyd
Davies
Day
Lockwood

Smith
Wheeldon
Maskill
Walters

That probably won't be far off the 17. Plenty of talent there, but seven of those 17 plus the coach have been with the club for 2 weeks or less and three more are DR players who also won't have been at every training session. Suspect it will take a few weeks at least before we know what this group of players can achieve, especially with the three PNG players coming from a country where the LOWEST recorded temperature in recent years was 13 degrees centigrade!

Re: Round 1: Featherstone (H) : Wed Jan 30, 2019 4:08 pm  

Rarefrith wrote:

Calum Turner has signed on loan from Cas.

Reckon Fev team will be something like

Turner
Carey
Hardcastle
Teteh
Briscoe
A Boas
W Boas
Cooper
King
Ormondroyd
Davies
Day
Lockwood

Smith
Wheeldon
Maskill
Walters

bullinenemyland wrote:

paulwalker71 wrote:

I'm definitely staying away from Bulls Banter FB group on Sunday night - it will be one reaction or the other, that's for sure...

Just Sunday???

The board (and anything that is posted by the club in general) is absolute rubbish at the moment. Its like a schizophrenic sh*tstorm of a page... I'm quickly remembering why I left it a few years back. It's either the team is the greatest ever and will smash all opponents with ease, or the club is a disgrace and is fleecing the fans because of super inflated prices or poor quality burgers!!!

And anyone who offers an alternative position is absolutely slaughtered. This board can sometimes have a bit of that but in general people tend to respect there are different views about. On there its crazy!!!

Absolutely! It's like the wild west on there. They are currently outraged about the pricing for this season. Now we'd all like to pay less and you have to have sympathy for people with families who simply can't afford for everyone to attend. However there's something almost sinister about how the same names keep popping up hammering the club and urging supporters not to attend games. A lot of people read this stuff and some are influenced by it.
I've posted a couple of times, conceding the prices are high but trying to explain why, and pointing out all the various offers for cheaper tickets. They don't like it and the response is swift and vitriolic, but I feel, in the absence of any official response from the club, that this campaign needs challenging.

Re: Round 1: Featherstone (H) : Wed Jan 30, 2019 4:24 pm  

Sedgebull wrote:

Absolutely! It's like the wild west on there. They are currently outraged about the pricing for this season. Now we'd all like to pay less and you have to have sympathy for people with families who simply can't afford for everyone to attend. However there's something almost sinister about how the same names keep popping up hammering the club and urging supporters not to attend games. A lot of people read this stuff and some are influenced by it.
I've posted a couple of times, conceding the prices are high but trying to explain why, and pointing out all the various offers for cheaper tickets. They don't like it and the response is swift and vitriolic, but I feel, in the absence of any official response from the club, that this campaign needs challenging.

I think that is just endemic of social media as a whole. There are only a minority of breathless haters, but they have the lions share of airtime. They seem to froth at the mouth even more should you try and poke holes in their pointless (and often wrong) arguments. And then instead of trying to argue they just shout louder and try to drown you out.

If people are influenced by such nonsense; believing fake-news on social media and swallowing unfeasible lies blindly, then it doesn't bode well for the future of this country or others.

But there is no way that will happen.

Oh, hang on.....