If Pryce stays and is preferred at centre, I'd take a look at Dimitri Pelo, once of Catalan and currently at Canberra, for another wing option.

And let Gale decide if he prefers 6 or 7. We signed him as a scrum-half and has excelled there, but is it his position of choice?

Good news from that article is that appears kopczak is only contracted player not to transfer. Puts paid to gale to hudds and Bateman to wire rumours.

What about Beaver as Asst coach?

He has signed1 year extra at Catalan

He certainly had a tough start in his NRL career, he must have spent a fair bit of time dealing with high bombs and being pushed back over the line. especially in the early games.

[url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportbulls/9935536.Bradford_Bulls__Bateman_contract_talks_under_way/bateman contract talks, crookes gone official[/url

"Interim Bulls chief executive Gary Tasker yesterday met with John Bateman ’s agent in a bid to thrash out a new long-term deal for Super League’s best young player.....in a bid to secure the teenager’s future for several more years"


Thats the sort of news that would shift season tickets if we can get it done! Excellent that we can hopefully start to make progress on things like this.


"Meanwhile, Jason Crookes' move to Hull on a three-year deal has finally been confirmed today."

Not new, but now official.

Agreed this is excellent news. His agent also acts for Elliot Whitehead and it says in the article that John (and by inference his agent )wants to stay. Another Gary Tasker quote is :
“Although it’s been well documented that we’ve only got 16 players under contract right now, there is a strong core to that group.

“When I’ve been speaking to agents in recent weeks, you realise that some of those players are the envy of all the big clubs.

That could be agents "bigging up" their case but I suspect there's more than a grain of truth in the remark.
My only disappointment with the article for me is that Tasker is probably leaving -- but may be available as a consultant. I think he's done a tremendous job these past few months and would have made an excellent CEO.

I've just read on [url=http://www.sportinglife.com/rugby-league/news/article/480/8091359/crookes-on-move-to-hullthis[/url article than Bryn Hargreaves is retiring?! That can't be right surely?

Yep he's off to the the USA to pursue another career apparently.

Wow. Good on him I guess, bit of a surprise that.

Huddersfield have released a few players. David Fa'alogo would be worth a one year deal at 32. Also Adam Walker is a young prop at 21 with plenty of potential. Huddersfield wanted to keep him, but he turned their offer down. I believe he's from Bradford too, although I'm nott 100% sure on that.