SKIPPER Leon Pryce has been handed the No 6 shirt ahead of their Kingstone Press Championship opener on Sunday at Hull KR.

The 35-year-old, who will be making his second debut for the Bulls, is the experienced playmaker around whom the Odsal club are building their hopes.

Shirt numbers are not necessarily indicative of a starting berth, but Joe Keyes has the scrum half shirt in the squad number announcements, while Ethan Ryan and new signing Ilies Macani have been handed the winger's numbers of two and five.

Ross Oakes will wear four, while Jon Magrin and childhood Bulls fan Ross Peltier will don 15 and 17 respectively, and Colton Roche has the No 11 shirt.

A number of players who have stepped up from the Academy and have shown potential have also been rewarded with squad numbers this season.

Josh Rickett has the highest shirt number at 27, but there are gaps below him at one, ten, 12, 13, 16, 22 and 23, and the Bulls have promised that further squad numbers will be announced.

BRADFORD BULLS 2017 SQUAD NUMBERS

2 Ethan Ryan, 3 James Mendeika, 4 Ross Oakes, 5 Ilies Macani, 6 Leon Pryce, 7 Joe Keyes, 8 Liam Kirk, 9 Joe Lumb, 11 Colton Roche, 14 Oscar Thomas, 15 Jon Magrin, 17 Ross Peltier, 18 Omari Caro, 19 Johnny Campbell, 20 James Bentley, 21 Brandan Wilkinson, 24 Brandon Pickersgill, 25 Keenen Tomlinson, 26 Vila Halafihi, 27 Josh Rickett.