I thought the same thing about Addy when I read the u20s match report. Especially when O'Brien was missing. Shame as I thought Addy played well last week.

Did anyone else ready Hood's column in the program? He was talking about Olbison and Addy having a limit on the number of games they could play based on the class of player they were. Anyone know what the practical impact of that would be?

I believe it's to do with the salary cap and that young players get either a bonus or pay rise if they play in x number of games a season before a certain age

It's on the lines of having so many players outside of the 20k+ a year squad.

From what I remember the players outside it are only allowed to play ten games per season but Peter Hood was going to challenge the RFL on the ruling and ask for some special dispensation.

isnt it more along lines of if they play more than a certain number of senior games then their full salary for the year counts towards the cap?.

That's the one and the limit is ten games.

They'll swap them at the ticket office for the Pink Link.

I won Real Radio tickets for the game at JJB a couple of years ago and they changed them to our end.

Bradford Bulls the Manchester United of Super League. They take thousands away and you can't get into Odsal for a home game as its always sold out

Great! Thanks for pointing that out to me

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That's my take on it too, which begs the question, would we be better served by using our 'spare' cap money on playing such as Addy and O'Brien a bit more (assuming the coaching staff are happy that the extra rugby isn't going to be detrimental to their development) rather than bringing in another 'star' signing at a later date?

probably a case of keeping our options open at this stage. as long as we have enough players able to play then it makes more sense to spread the workload and experience amongst the younger players who dont count on cap and keep as much cap space available for a signing as possible.

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now admit it , you just looked at the 'Away end' didnt ya ??









if you had looked at the side terrace you would have seen the rest of us !