I've heard patton is off Holmes & A.N other halfbacks with Lawford then Lilley and flannagan hookers.
Personally I wouldn't have GF anywhere near the club.
The fact that he will end up captain and probably assistant to an inexperienced coach tells you everything you need to know about Nigels bulls professional standards. LOW

I can understand why people like GF. Over the past two seasons he's the only one who has shown some passion and pride playing for the Bulls and provided some impact off the bench. Walker provided some impact last season, but other than that, we've had no-one show that from the squad. So I can understand why people like him from that perspective.

However he shouldn't be the captain. His disciplinary record isn't the best. Although the second ball grabbing incident was a bit 50/50 the first certainly wasn't. You can't have someone like that captain. However he'll provide experience and impact from the bench. Not a terrible re-signing and will hopefully help Lilley (should he move to hooker) or another young hooker learn the position.

As for becoming assistant coach, why not? If he has the qualifications to do so then surely he should be given a chance like anyone else? Personally I thought we missed an opportunity at having Brough as the assistant when he retired.

Doyle leaving is a killer as he's homegrown. However he's obviously chosen money over progression. That says more about him than us. He'd sooner go to newly promoted Keighley than an SL side to test himself. He's been great for us no doubt and scored a few tries. But it's not the end of the world. If Keighley have offered a ton of cash for him to stay PT so he gets a very good income from work and rugby then fair play. Let them. They have a bit of backing these days, we don't. And if Doyle is their 'marquee' signing for this league, or if his signing is just a middle finger to the 'bigger' neighbors then so be it. I don't think we'll miss him as much as we missed Keyes, Ryan, Bentley, Pickersgill etc.

Rumours on the fax board that they are signing Lilley and releasing Cory Aston… could be good alongside Holmes as 6 and 7 if we could entice Aston that is?

Could think of worst pairings.. be interesting to see what Dunning and Noble have up their sleeve.
if Lilley goes then would Patton stay? or are we offloading both is the question..

whatever we are doing there would be 4 halves…

Cory Aston is a very low quality player. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him have a really great game despite all the teams he has turned out for.

Although based on the rumoured budget reduction it’s probably the level we are at unfortunately

It must admit the old excuse of ‘we can’t compete with that offer’ is really really running thin.

Granted we’ve had so many issues since relegation from super league but how have we sunk this low.

Whenever something like this happens it’s a case of ‘oh well we can’t be expected to compete with Leigh or Featherstone, oh and York, and Fax, oh and now bloody Keighley. At what point do we get a grip and stop these teams overtaking us???

That will be the day that Nigel untightens his grip and sell the club to someone that deserves it..
You know it's bad when Fax fans don't gloat about beating us and liken it to "kicking a puppy".
They also feel sorry for us as he damn near killed their club too.

Never really rated Aston, the amount of clubs he's had probably says a lot. Lilleys not had the best of years, but who has?

On the squad as a whole, it's not just how much we're spending but how smart we're being with what we've got. Look at Batley, small budget but they buy smart and have a good culture. We've too many overweight props and having no ball playing FB has been there for all to see. We need round pegs in round holes. My worry is though that if we had another hooker lined up, surely we'd have announced it to somehow soften the blow of Doyle going to Keighley. George Flanagan doesn't do this and my fear is having Hallas and Flanagan at hooker which just repeats our mistakes and makes the singing of Holmes pointless.

Hear Hallas may be off anyway..

which would explain the signing of foster