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

To be fair you are only asking for our opinion on a potential signing who you correctly say is ooc? Seems a reasonable request to me

Shame that it was met with the usual vitriol on here by supposed fans of the club. There really are a lot of s that follow the Bulls.

FWIW, Crookes can go for me. He has been around for ages and has either been too rubbish or too injured to have any impact on the team. A few decent games this season has seemingly blinkered our "knowledgable" support.

Just another Dave Halley and if Pryce and Kear were available he would not get a look in. Would not be a loss.

Welcome back ME. Koppy has been around for ages, and no doubt you have said, FWIW, that he could go. good call. So lets look at your preferences"It’s been difficult on occasions when we’ve lost and I’ve been stuck out on the wing."[/i he of course does have the option of doing what TV or LV or even Gareth Raynor more recently would do, which is a few drives up the middle himself, for the sake of his own team mates. It is a team game. Crookes, 1000% more effort in attack and defence. Kear yes you have a point, but comparing his and Crookes STANDARDISED stats to the point they were injured, the only stat Kear was significantly better than Crookes was offloads, the rest were much of a muchness. so why one or the other, given they are no different, why not both?

Oops forgot to say the one stat that Crookes was significantly better at than Kear is tries scored 5 against 1 (thats tries in SL rounds not friendlies btw). any stat more important for a winger? who are you replacing Crookes with?

Had do you know Mick Potter isn't telling Pryce not to get too heavily involved with carting the ball up.