A former Bull will oversee the new physio team at City.

Karen May, who spent three years at Odsal, was today assessing some of Stuart McCall’s squad in her new role at Valley Parade.

She will act as consultant for 22-year-old Adam Cook, who will carry out the physio’s role on a day-to-day basis.

The duo have taken over from Steve Redmond, whose contract was not renewed at the end of last month, as McCall’s rebuild of his back-room staff nears completion.

A new youth-team boss has accepted the job and will be unveiled when he signs a contract later in the week.

Pre-season starts officially next Tuesday but McCall wants his players in early to undergo body checks with the new physio department.

He said: “It’s nothing over-physical like fitness tests. It’s just for an hour or so to meet the new staff and let them have a look at past medical history of the players and what areas might need strengthening.

“There have been a few lads who have been injured or just come back. Bully (Lee Bullock) has had his hernia op, Matt Clarke was out with his knee at the back end of last season and Peter Thorne had that little niggle with his thigh.

“It’s a chance for the new physios to help with any problems the lads have had in the past.

“Karen comes well recommended over the years. She worked with the Bulls and a couple of other rugby teams and has her own large business. She will be in one day a week to oversee things while Adam does the job every day.”

May joined the Bulls in 1995 and was with them for the launch of Super League. After taking a year out to work with England junior women’s basketball, she returned to rugby league in 1999 as head physio of the Huddersfield Giants.

She has run her own private practice for eight years providing treatment for a number of professional sportsmen, including footballers, and has been physio for Wharfedale rugby union. She joined the books of UK Athletics in 2001/02 and is a specialist in knee reconstruction.

Cook has worked at her practice for four years and has been give the role of City’s assistant sports therapist.

He had been playing as a left winger for Rossendale United in the Unibond League and the Lancashire club were loathe to lose him.

Rossendale chairman Steve Hobson said: “Adam has been a loyal servant to the club over the past couple of years, the scourge of many a defender when he turned out for us.”