Anyone for a Naked Run? (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

Anyone for a Naked Run?

2:32pm Tuesday 11th September 2007

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It’s great that some long-held traditions still remain in the clean-cut, professional age of Super League.
Mad Monday is one. Plenty of players from clubs who have failed to reach the play-offs – and maybe some who have! – will be going out for the mother of all sessions after this weekend’s final round of Super League fixtures, win, lose or draw. Well deserved lads, get ’em in.
The Naked Run is another much-loved ritual. Well, by some, anyway – generally depending on try-scoring records.
To the uninitiated, it is the punishment dished out to any player who doesn’t manage to score a four-pointer throughout the club’s league campaign, and it does what it says on the tin.
At training, said player has to do a lap of the Odsal pitch while completely starkers, much to the amusement of his team-mates and any one else who can sneak in to take the Michael.
It is easy to understand why the Bulls’ Nathan McAvoy was so elated at scoring on Sunday. It looked like he couldn’t buy a try, having failed to cross in the 26 previous matches. Time had been running out for the winger and that embarrassment was looming large.
McAvoy can breathe easy now but spare a thought for Chris Feather, Matt James and Craig Kopczak – one game to go and not a single try between them. Expect some white-line fever from this trio on Friday night!
They’ve still got a long way to go to reach Richard Moore’s feats though. The former Bulls prop suffered the bare-all fate THREE years on the bounce. With form like that, you have to start thinking maybe he just liked the feel of the breeze on his skin!

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