Looks like jouffret or walmsey, probably jouffret will get there chance as Martin is cup tied https://twitter.com/halifaxpanthers/sta ... 44097?s=21

Looks like jouffret or walmsey, probably jouffret will get there chance as Martin is cup tied https://twitter.com/halifaxpanthers/sta ... 44097?s=21

Ah, no Roberts, surprise, surprise. It just goes to show the idiocy of DR. He was in last weeks squad and therefore presumably trained with us. Giants don't allow him to be in this weeks squad so training without him. What a waste of time. I wonder what our own players think of the situation?

It will be interesting who gets the nod at fullback because i thought aston had a poor game against widnes and if you are going to drop jouffret for his performance at batley then he needs to drop cory this week.The team i would go with is.

salty
mcomb
barber
arundel
walmsley
keyes
jouffret
gwaze
moore
kavanagh
oakley
tangata
fairbank

murray
calcott
larroyer
wood

I realise that Ian. The points i am making refer to the disruption around training for a player who in the end up didn't come and the effect on team morale. It's utter codswallop! Up The Fax!

Roberts is a good player and probably just the sort of forward we need, especially as it sounds Matty Gee is not likely to play in the near future. Doesn't appear to feature in Huddersfield plans and therefore could well be available long term. I would personally like to see him play next week - if this weeks pack know that's a possibility you'd like to think each one is motivated to make sure its not them that makes way. This isn't about flooding the team with random different players each week but hopefully providing someone who can play regularly for us, improving the team which we couldn't otherwise afford.

In that case the loan system, with a minimum timescale, is available to be used.

Not sure in reality what the difference is - last year we had Hewitt and Borough on season long loans and they were pulled back by their clubs seemingly when they wanted. I may well be wrong but I also thought that with a loan we would be responsible for players wages but not with DR.

Simply write the minimum length of the loan into the deal. If the clubs can't agree to that, no deal and look elsewhere.

Yep the reality is that very few SL clubs are willing to allow long-term loans, simply because that injuries and suspensions can quickly decimate a squad.It makes little sense for them to send out players without a recall clause unless they absolutely can't envisage a situation where they might need that player.

I remember watching a video around January where Mick Gledhill was saying that he thought Bradford having players on long-term loans from Leeds was preferable to DR because they were less likely to be recalled and were more fringe players, and also an interview with John Kear where he sounded pretty confident there wouldn't be any recalls from the trio they had announced as coming to them.

Of the 3 players supposedly on long-term loan, one is injured, another (Jarred O'Connor) was recalled to Leeds before he even played for Bradford, and a third (Cory Johnson) was recalled to Leeds about an hour before kick off after Bradford has named him in their starting 13 at Leigh.

The loan system isn't really a lot different to DR in the modern game.

One thing that is a positive regarding duel reg is the merging of reserves , so today Ben tibbs got a run out and Oliver roberts too so if they are called upon they’re not going into the games cold, its a shame the likes of Liam whitton ( good luck at Cornwall btw ) wasn’t given a go in the Huddersfield reserves and I’d like to see Cole Oakley given a chance in this system. I’m not a fan of duel reg but if the door swings both ways that at least is a benefit .

Merged reserves? Whatever next? Utter madness!

Run our own reserve team like we did up to a couple of years ago before the rfl stepped in.