I hope Semi stays, but I'd understand if he took a longer bigger contract to play Union.

Interesting comment from Mr Hood though;

[i“But this speculation is par for the course at this time of year. We’ve got eight or nine players leaving or out of contract and he is probably the only one whose future has not been announced.” [/i

Is it 8 or is it 9? As by my reckoning we know of 8 gone or likely to go (if we include straugheir) plus the question mark over Sam who would be the 9th - so it being 8 or 9 is quite important Mr Hood. And if Semi is [iprobably [/ithe only one whos future has not been announced, given we have had no anouncement on Sam's future officially can we take that as he stays??? (even if its only for now??) probably not I guess as the reason he says 8 or 9 is because we dont know whats happening with Sam

I await the positive recruitment stories, hopefully starting with Semi.

It's the only way to start.

The departure not mentioned was Rinaldi, which with Tadulala will make nine.

But following that logic, of people that have left earlier in the season, would that also include Tupou? I assumed he was talking about players involved with the first team at the end of the season? I could be wrong though, and I suspect he was being delibrately vague as there are deals ongoing regarding both ins and outs it looks like.

Its just been officially announced that Mark Flannagan is joining wests next year. Will be interesting to see how he does over there after being dropped by bradford.

Was he dropped though by us? I thought Wigan paid us compensation?


Sorry can't really remember the exact story.

We got £10k for Flanagan IIRC.

He was dropped he rejected the Bradford offer.

Only seen him a couple of times but have been relatively impressed. Great opportunity at Wests.

He joined the club being the son of a former international player, who was a big friend of Nobby's. Of course as soon as Noble left for Wigan it wasn't only Fielden he came back for. Flanagan looked very promising immediately he came to the Bulls, and certainly he wasn't dropped by Bradford has a decent transfer fee was involved in the transaction, certainly for an untried player.

ah fair enough I dont remember that, shows what I know

There was anotherFlanagan playing at the same time who didn't make it, probably this has caused the confusion.

That would be George, the hooker that went to Batley and got a 2 year ban for failing a drugs test.

Were they not related? I always assumed they were brothers.