I personally would rather watch a winning team in the rain than a loosing one in the dry. And I also believe success breeds success as long as its managed correctly with forward thinking management.

Don't get me wrong we need to be looking to the future, looking at the building blocks towards stadium development etc. But ATEOTD (I assume) most fans' number one priority is a good set of lads putting in good performances, then off the back of this we can look at improving the stadium.

Hopefully if we stay in SL we can sign all our young guys up that are OOC.

Oli is a big loss and Manuokafoa will be should we lose him, Purtell too if he doesn't get back.

Move Langley to SR and Donaldson to loose, Bateman alongside Langley and Whitehead to push for a place because he's far to inconsistent IMO. I gues sthe best we can hope for at this stage is a SL place and relying on the lads weve nurtured these past few years as opposed to big name signings.

I find it difficult to disagree with Beefy's summary. I'd hope Diskin Gale and Hargreaves will stay but it's obvious we could lose at least 6 of the current squad
At the beginning of the season MP made it clear he needed a big squad-- imagine the mess we'd have been in if we'd had last season's numbers when the early season injury list was at it's peak. But if we retain SL status it's highly unlikely we'll be able to secure proven SL or NRL players-- mainly finance but also other teams have had their pick of the best.
The key for me is to retain our youngsters with a core of experienced players to help them improve.
But i'd also like to see us bolster our squad with a few young championship players. One name I'll throw into the mix is Walmsley a young forward from the Bulldogs. I've seen him live a couple of times and also on Premier-- I think he has a good chance of making SL grade. One match I saw was Batley against Leigh and a few of the Leigh players commented afterwards on how good he was, comparing him to their old team mate Chris Hill

in tonights t and a article by ross it states the he expects all the 15 out of contract players to leave.

that leaves a big hole in the squad, and some we all agree should be offered deals will be going.

The online T and A reports don't suggest that. I can't see why every one would leave anyway.

From today's article re Potter staying for free....

"There are another 15 players out of contract and set to move on regardless of whether the Bulls play in Super League or not."

It is online within the "Mick Potter hopes he''l soon be back on the payroll" item today
There are another 15 players out of contract and set to move on regardless of whether the Bulls play in Super League or not.
EDIT : as already posted as above
I really hope that the report is incorrect!!!!

These are presumably (after the article's exclusion of Burgess & Jeffries) the remaining players OOC 2012
Crookes
Price
Walker
Ainscough
Briggs
Sammut
Manuofokua
Hargreaves
Joseph
Elima
Sibbett
Addy
Donaldson
McAvoy
Payne

This would leave 16 senior players on the books (one whom is Purtell with a doubtful future + Sykes)
A further 5 juniors have contracts to 2013

My bad, should have looked harder. Doubt every one of them will leave. Main one for me is keeping Nas.

IF Ross is right then they will all be going including Nas.
A bit strange he dropped this bombshell as a 2 line note in an different reporting subject.

God knows what our team next year will be.

Alex is off to Saints. I mentioned him on here somewhere earlier this year. I'd be very surprised if he doesn't become an England player given time.

I really hope we re-sign Donaldson, still think he will be a star. Looking on Nas's twitter, it looks like he's wanting to stay at Bulls, but all depends on when everything is finalised.

If the out of contract players all go plus the ones with longer contracts who have refused to stay and signed for other clubs - who will be left?

Can you play?

Yeh I could sign a contract - limp off in my first game and collect the money for the rest of the season and watch the remaining games whilst injured.

Or has that been done before?

Tupou has that title mate sorry :/