Green bought the club some time which hasn't been used by others.

I [imight[/i have a passing interest in the Shield if there is a clear statement that we aren't going to play ANY players who won't be here next season and take the opportunity to mould a team for next season.

It's time for all of the rumours and speculation to brought out into the open - and if that means we don't see Ferguson, Addy, Clark, Gaskell, Clough etc etc etc ever again, then I doubt many of us will shed any tears

Every year we say this but it never actually happens? what has happend to Mathers?

Had an operation on a knee injury

The word is that you have got another London Bronco coming your way for next season.

Two is the rumour. Iliess Macani & Jon Magrin.

I'm hopeful that we'll see Bradford Bulls rebuilding from the bottom up next year.

All this thrashing around signing heaps of players with nothing invested in the club has done more harm than good. We need to build a squad with enthusiasm, loyalty and commitment. The 6 U19s moving into the first team will help us do that and the next few years we'll see even more graduating. We just need to be very careful who we bring in to add experience and leadership - previous recruitment has been a total shambles. However if Batley can recruit better than us on less than £200k as a total player budget we can see it is possible.

I think Smith now needs to promote some of the U19s for our remaining games. It's an ideal competition to get them up to speed in preparation for a good pre season and next year.

Pretty much my thinking too. Give all the six coming up as much gametime this year as we can and treat it as a pre-preseason. As much as possible while still putting a balanced team out don't select those who are leaving. May mean we aren't playing our strongest team on paper every week but they'll learn more actually playing in first team and hopefully give us a head start next year.

I believe its three, adding to Keyes, Thomas, Caro and Lovegrove, so you are fast becoming the new Cas with a plethora of former Broncos.

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how does all this work with a part time operation? has Marc Green got the £££ to make up the £750k that will appear because of finishing 5th?

If £750K will appear, why would he need to?



Green has always been blunt about the general proposition that he isn't a sugar daddy (although personally I can't see how he hasn't had to put cash in to keep us afloat) so no major shortfalls are seemingly likely to be made up by him.

At the fans forum he did (almost) say we would remain full-time - but I doubt there is anyone who can see any way we can remotely do that in 2017 - unless we have a squad of 20.