Retired Shirts for your Club?

[Mumby Magic]

Is it still a thing and if so which shirts are retired for which players. We retired the 21 shirt (we being Bradford) came back into use a few years after.

[Liverpool Rover]

The number 6 shirt was retired at Hull KR after Roger Millwards passing.

[Spidey]

I get it’s a thing in US sports when in practice they don’t associate positions with numbers and they go up to 99 so plenty available. I don’t think  it should be done in our game, players can change their number each year, and squad numbers are a recent thing.

[Barry Badrinath]

21 minutes ago, Spidey said:

I get it’s a thing in US sports when in practice they don’t associate positions with numbers and they go up to 99 so plenty available. I don’t think  it should be done in our game, players can change their number each year, and squad numbers are a recent thing.

It's a little weird over here, I think you could have a middle ground, say the number 6 at kr, it gets retired for 6 years, or the number 10 shirt gets 10 years, it's symbolic  

 

Just taking it out altogether is a lil much 

[gingerjon]

31 minutes ago, Spidey said:

I get it’s a thing in US sports when in practice they don’t associate positions with numbers and they go up to 99 so plenty available. I don’t think  it should be done in our game, players can change their number each year, and squad numbers are a recent thing.

Even then, retiring a number is incredibly rare.

My boys - the Chicago Cubs - have been going since 1876 and have retired six numbers, one of which is the number 42 which has been retired for all baseball clubs. That's basically one number for every thirty years of franchise history.

[sam4731]

How many clubs reserve the number 18 for their fans?

[marklaspalmas]

Squad numbers in RL has never been done properly from a marketing perspective and it's a bit pointless

[DI Keith Fowler]

56 minutes ago, gingerjon said:

Even then, retiring a number is incredibly rare.

My boys - the Chicago Cubs - have been going since 1876 and have retired six numbers, one of which is the number 42 which has been retired for all baseball clubs. That's basically one number for every thirty years of franchise history.

[gingerjon]

2 minutes ago, DI Keith Fowler said:

The Cubs are in the National, not the American League.

Honestly, some people ...

[Impartial Observer]

2 hours ago, Mumby Magic said:

Is it still a thing and if so which shirts are retired for which players. We retired the 21 shirt (we being Bradford) came back into use a few years after.

Why 21, was that a year you didn't go bust?

[HullWire]

2 hours ago, Mumby Magic said:

Is it still a thing and if so which shirts are retired for which players. We retired the 21 shirt (we being Bradford) came back into use a few years after.

I don't think it should ever have been a thing. Why did Bradford retire ( or not as it turns out) no 21?

[Mumby Magic]

11 minutes ago, Impartial Observer said:

Why 21, was that a year you didn't go bust?

O how I could laugh. Karl Fairbank wore 21 on his last season.

[HullWire]

No disrespect  to any players who have played with any number on their back with distinction, but  if you start to retire the numbers you can soon end up with 1 to 13 retired and then it goes on

[Mumby Magic]

2 hours ago, sam4731 said:

How many clubs reserve the number 18 for their fans?

Fair point

[The 4 of Us]

59 minutes ago, HullWire said:

No disrespect  to any players who have played with any number on their back with distinction, but  if you start to retire the numbers you can soon end up with 1 to 13 retired and then it goes on

Funnily enough I’ve heard Hull FC have done that very thing this year.

[17 stone giant]

I just think there's loads of better ways to recognise great players. Have a statue, name a stand, name a hospitality suite, etc.

[Griff]

2 hours ago, marklaspalmas said:

Squad numbers in RL has never been done properly from a marketing perspective and it's a bit pointless

It means you can wear a shirt that fits, if you're a player.

I haven't seen many shirt grabbers in the past 39 years.

[17 stone giant]

3 minutes ago, Griff said:

I haven't seen many shirt grabbers in the past 39 years.

They've moved on to pulling shorts down instead. At least twice St Helens did that against Warrington last weekend.

They'll be wearing cycling shorts next.

[Welshleaguelover]

4 hours ago, gingerjon said:

Even then, retiring a number is incredibly rare.

My boys - the Chicago Cubs - have been going since 1876 and have retired six numbers, one of which is the number 42 which has been retired for all baseball clubs. That's basically one number for every thirty years of franchise history.

Dont the MLB have a full week where every player wears 42 in honour of Jackie Robinson? Or have I imagined that?

[Anita Bath]

2 hours ago, Welshleaguelover said:

Dont the MLB have a full week where every player wears 42 in honour of Jackie Robinson? Or have I imagined that?

15 April, Jackie Robinson Day…everyone wears 42.

 

April 15 1947 was the day he made his MLB debut.

[Dovster]

Keighley Cougars retired the no6 shirt from 2016 in honour of Danny Jones. Something that is unanimously supported by the fans.

[The Blues Ox]

Fev Women retired the No. 12 shirt in memory of Natalie Harrowell.

[Griff]

16 hours ago, sam4731 said:

How many clubs reserve the number 18 for their fans?

Should be 19 now.

[Barry Badrinath]

17 hours ago, DI Keith Fowler said:

it tastes like fizzy benylin

[Welshleaguelover]

16 hours ago, Anita Bath said:

15 April, Jackie Robinson Day…everyone wears 42.

 

April 15 1947 was the day he made his MLB debut.

I had it in my head that they did it for a full week for some reason.