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  1. Fax weren’t unprofessional, that’s your opinion, Grix has a very direct communication style , all he said was Arundel hadn’t reached the heights expected as an ex superleague player and had struggled to adapt from full time to part time rugby , and that basically he hadn’t reached the standards expected enough on a consistent basis. I suspect that applies to many fax players who have left in the last couple of seasons, rightly or wrongly, springer , Morris, arundal , Martin , aston , even a couple of seasons ago Grix called salty out on his efforts and he went on to win player of the season, it’s grixs’ style , he gives the players a chance to redeem prove themselves and expect ms a reaction , walmsey n jouffret at the beginning of last season were dropped and come back firing , Grix demands high standards , that’s not unprofessional.
  2. Yes I agree and good luck to them and him , a competitive Bradford is always good for us and the sport in general, they’ve signed some decent players some come with risks attached but I guess that applies to all players I guess . I thought arundal improved as the season went on but ultimately Grix sees things differently , I don’t think his statement was unprofessional he was just stating his truth as he has done about cole Oakley. I think our squad is at 24 now and suspect given what our board and Grix have said there’ll be a couple of new additions in the new year .
  3. I mean fatford bulls were probably the most unprofessional team ever to grace the championship last year but ok .
  4. I quite like the show but obviously gledhill inevitably has to have his Bradford speech every now and then and Craig has a reacharound with James ford . At least they’re passionate about the sport and ultimately they’re trying , much prefer it to the 40/20 show and they discuss other clubs outside the superleague .
  5. Yes it was a bit harsh , I think Grix likes a certain type of player,( doesn’t seem to be a fan of luxury players)he made similar comments about springer yet he’s gone on to play well for other clubs .
  6. Yes it’ll be interesting to see where we are with fitness we’re we’ve lost Scott , although Simon does seem to like the natural gym bunny guys which probably makes it easier to keep that fitness culture going without too much outside motivation. My main concern is 2nd row if we lose a couple like last year to injury or bans ( ie gee n kav/king) we will be relying on some young unproven lads , I’d like to see one more in there .
  7. Fax have two tough games to start the season, Sheffield at home, who have recruited well especially in the forwards , then featherstone away , featherstone too with keighley away and fax at home should give us an idea where we’re at . Hopefully fax get off to a good start ( notoriously slow starters hopefully mitigated by keeping the spine ) Still on the fence with some of fax’s’ recruitment but Grix has a tendency to get the best out of most players.
  8. I don’t think Flanagan jr is a world beater, I don’t think you’re signings are as good as what the press are making out , seems to be some kind of weird Bradford love and I don’t get it , going from 9th to challenging for promotion seems a bit of a stretch regardless of a clear out . Cabbage.
  9. Why is everyone playing at Bradford suddenly rated as world beaters ? Is Nigel paying the press to exaggerate things to get the fans back , everyone else in the league might as well not bother according to the journalist, doing my turnip in .
  10. Don’t know much about Toulouse tbh so can’t comment. Featherstone have recruited well and I see them as favourites , their pack looks strong again . As a faxfan hoping we continue to progress and challenge again for the playoffs. Not sure on Bradford, some risks attached to their recruitment and dunning not proved himself yet . Batleys odds are completely disrespectful as lingard as proved himself time and time again . It’ll be interesting to see if kear reverts to his old school tactics or whether that was down to the pitch at odsal . I can see Sheffield challenging for a playoff this year .
  11. I still think fax may have one or two additions incoming but as it currently stands I will hazard a guess 1 Woodburn hall 2 Lachlan walmsey 3 Jake maizen 4 Ben tibbs 5 James Saltonstall 6 Louis jouffret 7 Joe keyes 8 Will Maher 9 Brandon Moore 10 Dan murray 11 Matty gee 12 Ryan king 13 Adam tangata 14 Kyle wood 15 Ben kavanagh 16 Eribe doro 17 Will calcott 18 Jacob fairbank 19 Tom inman 20 Cole oakley 21 Zac mcomb 22 Joe arundal 23 Kevin larroyer 24 Nick rawsthorne 25 Ben Forster I believe inman and wood will be interchangeable along with tangata and fairbank , arundal tibbs McComb salty maizen will rotate depending on the opponent, still think we need a third half and another 2nd rower .
  12. Agree completely, the first game against Batley away he was out muscled and subsequently dropped , came back against fev in the cup and showed a great attitude and scored a brace , turned the momentum when down to eleven against York away and like you say started carrying the ball for his team and getting success as the season progressed, looks like he put 6lb of muscle on and I suspect with a good preseason he’ll be even better next year . If we sign maizen our back line will have pace to burn with walmsey, tibbs , maizen , McComb , rawsthorne to choose from complimented by strong carries from arundal and salty .
  13. Jake maizen rumoured to have signed for fax , looked quality in the World Cup ,hope it’s true .
  14. Can’t see fax re-signing him , he wasn’t getting a great deal of game time before and we have three hookers now in Brandon Moore , kyle wood and Tom inman .
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