Well I was thinking younger than 24, but maybe I'm wrong?

You're not wrong, he's 22, so I believe we are entitled to some type of compo

I could think of a few others I would be far more gutted to lose.

Well I would imagine the club will be looking to offer him a new deal after a promising start to this year. Before that he struggled with injuries and never looked likely to be a future star. He still needs to prove himself in SL so we'd be foolish to get into a bidding war for his services.

If the price is right I would like to see him stay at the club though.

Agree about Crookes. With things as they are though there will be quite a few hoping for the same I'd guess.

Think his only difference this year is Keith Lulia at the side of him.

Not sure I would agree entirely, but they did look a good combination. Crookes did a lot of good stuff in defence as well as attack before his injury.

It wouldn't surprise me if this one was true. I was talking with his dad (who works in the same building as me) last season and he was hoping that Widnes would make an offer for him. I got the impression (although it wasn't explicitly stated) that he wasn't enjoying his time a Bradford. Of course this was before his little run of form at the start of this season.

just because you have a chairman with abit of money doesn't mean you can sign up half of superleague its getting boring now. listening to hull fans thinking every player would love to play for them just because gareth ellis is following the money, and your fans have believed the line of "well he just wanted to come here he believes in what we are trying to aim for and we are going to pay him peanuts for the pleasure".

In fairness, how do you think the Hull FC fans felt when we signed McNamara, Vaikona and Radford?

We don't have to like it; we just have to accept that without a rich owner then what went round has come round.

Kn0b!

What has the rich owner got to do with looking at OOC players?

FWIW this rumour has been going around for a couple of months in the RL papers as well, not just this forum.

Along with dozens of others...where would we be without rumours? Yawn..ZZzzzzz