the money you get for burgess will not go on players it is to pay off debt. JUST LIKE FEILDENS LESSES AND HAPE.YOU ARE THE NEXT WIDNES!!!!!!!

The club has no debt. Hasn't had since about 2002 or 2003.

(source: published accounts).

hth.

The best I could come up with would be something along the lines of:

Halley
Sherriffe
Platt
Nero
Crookes
Sykes
Deacon
Lynch
l'Estrange
Hall
Menzies
Langley
Donaldson

Godwin
Kopczak
Scruton
Worrincy

with Hyde, Crossley, Tate, Olbison & Whitehead in the squad.

What are the odds on a bottom 4 finish? We're doomed, doomed I tell ya!
Hopefully we'll get some good news sooner than later. We should be able to bring in a minimum of three players, so a halfback, prop and second row, and possibly a centre if we're really lucky.

With a squad list like that it seems that you will have a very heavy reliance on a number of very young and inexperienced kids. You need at least 4 or 5 more experienced players (not necessarily world class) to avoid another season similar (if not worse) than this one.

TBH, if I were a Bulls fan, I'd be looking to pick up some quality experience (the likes of Furner was fantastic at Leeds) to bolster the team for 2 years, with the emphasis being on a return to the playoffs not next year but the year after.

If the kids have potential, then don't knock it out of them by overplaying them when they are too young or physically immature to handle it.

ps, I wonder if Nick Scruton is wondering if he made the right decision in leaving Leeds???

I dread to think what the Bradford side of 5 years ago would do to that team. Major investment needed, must have loads of room on the cap though?

We need backs more than forwards imo

Really worried by the lack of good rumours, usually there's a few names floating about but this year when we need IMO 4 new players there doesn't seem to be any of those 'worse kept secret type signings'

The problem is, there are no real quality players available for next season. However, as it stands there are a lot out of contract at the end of next season.

Well there's the long running rumour that we've signed an injury prone fullback who missed the whole of this season with an injury.

Doesn't that make you feel more optimistic? Me neither

I suspect Macca would go for a bit of shuffle with that line up - Platt at FB, Crookes into the Centre and Halley on the Wing

Truth us that we are looking paper thin at present. Like every team we will no doubt get injuries. On the law of averages, you get maybe one person who does their cruciate or something and is out for the season, plus two or three with long term injuries and more still with week-to-week knocks and bangs. The line up given above effectively only has 18 players - since it is obvious that the coach doesn't want to play Crossley or Hyde and Olbison is also totally unproven (if you blink you missed his brief cameo)

We certainly need at least five or six new faces to bolster the squad as it above. Anything less and - with injuries - we are going to be throwing in people that either MacNamara doesn't think are ready or who he just doesn't rate