Never mind - at least we can look forward to watching several of those players turning out for Dewsbury on dual-reg against us next season.

Now we are out of special measures and can offer contracts, I think the rules about academy players are we have to offer them an equivalent contract but if they leave to join another club with a better offer, then compo has to be paid.

So we get something.

Yes, the compensation works out at £100 per week that they were in your scholarship and £175 a week that they are in your Academy. Adds up to a recent sum when they reach 18/19.

it was inevitable that this was was going to happen, tragic as it may seem the players that have been sold should lay a foundation to work on to save the club,

as for the fans you'll need to stand back and see whats left and if your willing to support the name of the club and where your playing from

one day these players may return but to what will depend on you and whose in control, from a outsider point of view I'd be fuming and I'd walk away but I didn't with my club and we went through a hellish time too but nothing like what is happening here.



I genuinely do hope you return to better days, having a mother and family who comes from Idle and Thackley even though my club is Wakefield I don't take any satisfaction of a rival club being torn apart



keep your chins up fellers

One of the three will be loaned back to us, so small crumbs of comfort.

£150k for Milnes/Storton/Academy Prop. I'll take a stab at Mudoti if it's not Foster.



£0 for Keyes and Minichello



Or 150/5 for the lot which ever way you look at it.

Hitchcox to Toulouse.

Half-backs Joe Keyes and Rowan Milnes, back-rowers Elliot Minchella and Matthew Storton and prop-forward Anesu Mudoti have all signed three-year deals with Rovers from the 2020 campaign.



HKR have announced

HKR will loan us Milnes & a n other HKR player - season loans.

disappointing but unavoidable I guess and at least we got some money for them and didn't lose them for nothing.

One would assume itll be either Will Oakes or Elliot Wallis, both of whom are wingers. Rovers have made it clear they want to loan those 2 out this season (along with Keinhorst who appears to be Salford bound), so it would fit.

I am hoping its not a winger as believe we have Grant and Foggin-Johnston for next season.

looks like quite a lot of longstanding, committed fans & RAB posters are leaving.

Are we getting a fee?

I can't imagine any Bulls fans actually thinking that this is an exciting new start.



It's just some more men who want to screw the long-suffering Bulls fans out of more money.



I'm pretty sick of it all too TBH, but will wait to see what/if John Kear can produce before next season starts before deciding to liberate my Sunday afternoons completely.

I'm fairly sure FA would faint if someone offered him £175 per week.... more like £300 per hour lol.

I hope this is the point where we all look back at this and say "yeah it was painful at the time, but those actions helped save the club and allowed was to move forward"

though I doubt it with this club.

Painful news.



Wakey went throught it when Michael Carter took over.



I'm as gutted as anyone to lose Minchella, Keyes, Storton and Milnes. We could have built a team around them capable of getting back into SL. But we were a club on the brink (again) and losing All players for absolutely nothing, starting on - 12 and on all liklihood zero appetite from fans to "start again"



We've actually received some cash for once for the players so innocent creditors actually get what they're owed. Milnes is back for the whole year which is also a positive.



Guess we can only see what sort of team we have come kick off.

Me too. I've seen most of the academy games last season, there's quality there. And this is a really aggressive start to getting rid of debt. If we stabilise, this could be our last firesale.



My only concern is if ST sales collapse completely, then it doesn't really matter how much we cut expenditure, we're done.



Basically this is it. It's either total collapse, club dies and we all go home (over the next 3months). Or we stabilise and we don't have to do this again. There's no middle ground. I don't know the odds, but I'll give it a go.

Did they say at the fan's forum what the bl**dy h**l is the reason for the massive debt year upon year, owners upon owners? Odsal? Boardroom fishtank? The tealady over ordering the pg tips?

Meanwhile, Doncaster have just tweeted they've signed Josh Rickett

It's all so sad but not unexpected after what was said at the forum about selling players. It was always going to be our best players only SL clubs could afford to buy them, championship clubs dont have the money to pay fees. So only players who might make it in SL would go. At least the new owners are being honourable in trying to settle debts and save us from administration and points deduction. I for one will not kneejerk react and wait to see what develops over the next few months before giving in. I've followed them since 1962 and will find it hard to walk away. If memory serves me right York were deeper in the sh*t 3 seasons ago and not in a position to start a new season a few weeks before kick off, but they did and now look at them.

I know people keep saying York were in a worse position 3 years ago, or Fev last year, or Leigh last year. But no-one says such-and-such a club were in a worse position 2 years ago and 3 years ago and 5 years ago. We seem to constantly have the heart ripped out of the club every effing year.

Those clubs weren't helped by the RFL

Jammy barstewards.

that was public knowledge a couple of weeks ago.