Re: Bradford : Tue Feb 11, 2025 9:08 pm  

Torbreck wrote:

Speaking of wingers what happened to Iliess Macani? Did he go to another club, not retained, or retired?

I understand that Macani took offence to criticism leveled at him at the end of last season. He refused to sign for the club under the current management.

Re: Bradford : Tue Feb 11, 2025 9:15 pm  

I cannot see a win either. However looking at how the poor the pitch was for the cup match last weekend and the forecast for rain and snow next Sunday. Which may be a leveler. That is if the game is not postponed.

Re: Bradford : Tue Feb 11, 2025 10:16 pm  

Victor wrote:

I understand that Macani took offence to criticism leveled at him at the end of last season. He refused to sign for the club under the current management.

From Eccles? When was that? Seems a real shame. A bit poor not to mark his leaving after he did a real shift for us in previous years.

Re: Bradford : Tue Feb 11, 2025 10:21 pm  

Victor wrote:

I understand that Macani took offence to criticism leveled at him at the end of last season. He refused to sign for the club under the current management.

That’s interesting Victor. I don’t think he disgraced himself in SL and scored a few. Really he’s a Championship player though and if we had undertaken a normal level of recruitment you would have expected that his game time would have been limited so feels a little harsh as he did his best. I had grave doubts when he was signed from Skolars but after a few iffy games he settled at the level well and has a winners medal to show for it. Shame too that Hoyes, who was identified as a good young prospect, has not gone on this year as he’d probably have got game time on wing as well. Really the risk/reward for playing RL PT in the south where the salary isn’t that impressive is a real issue now. Some real hardy souls travelling down from Wales to play. Got admire their grit.

Re: Bradford : Tue Feb 11, 2025 10:27 pm  

the-bearded-lefty wrote:

From Eccles? When was that? Seems a real shame. A bit poor not to mark his leaving after he did a real shift for us in previous years.

Ahh lefty. I made that school boy error as well a couple of years ago. I believe such luminaries as Kieron Dixon are still waiting for an ‘all the best’, Curran as well and Matt Davies has come and gone twice without the club mentioning it and then there was the classic 2022 season when we didn’t not just acknowledge players leaving but didn’t bother to mention they’d joined (although on reflection that probably was justified). It is, I believe, know as ‘the Broncos way’.

Re: Bradford : Tue Feb 11, 2025 10:49 pm  

The whole part-time rugby league in the South issue is a tough one. It takes a certain kind of resilience for players to balance it all, especially when the pay doesn’t always reflect the effort.

Re: Bradford : Tue Feb 11, 2025 11:25 pm  

BigTime wrote:

Ahh lefty. I made that school boy error as well a couple of years ago. I believe such luminaries as Kieron Dixon are still waiting for an ‘all the best’, Curran as well and Matt Davies has come and gone twice without the club mentioning it and then there was the classic 2022 season when we didn’t not just acknowledge players leaving but didn’t bother to mention they’d joined (although on reflection that probably was justified). It is, I believe, know as ‘the Broncos way’.

Dalton Grant too. Really classless.

Re: Bradford : Wed Feb 12, 2025 12:08 pm  

the-bearded-lefty wrote:

Dalton Grant too. Really classless.

While you might level that at Hughes & maybe Lobster, not something I would expect from Cakeman. Don't think even the great villain Ernie Clay treated players with such indifference.

Re: Bradford : Wed Feb 12, 2025 1:59 pm  

Deadcowboys1 wrote:

While you might level that at Hughes & maybe Lobster, not something I would expect from Cakeman. Don't think even the great villain Ernie Clay treated players with such indifference.

Me too DC definitely times under Mr H when the silence on a departure denoted irritation that wages had been paid, performance poor and then F off up North at earliest opportunity. Reflecting on this on the face of it the silence on Grant was a bit odd if they’d known he was retiring. However I can see in some circumstances when noting a litany of departures and no incomings looks bad - happened quite a lot in recent seasons, and it may be the feeling is let sleeping dogs lie where no obvious onward journey for the departing player. Look at Horsman, at the club for donkeys years and left, and I suspect the game, without even a thanks for service. Maybe it’s not incompetence or malice, maybe it’s just felt sometime best to leave it.

Re: Bradford : Wed Feb 12, 2025 2:35 pm  

Some people just do not want a fuss being made.