The first thing i checked for.... I agree it doesn't necessarily indicate where someone will play, but does strongly suggest a different half back partnership this season.

Lilley always looks better at hooker IMO. Noble likes big blokes punching holes down the middle for the dummy half to exploit and Lilley and Souter are great out of dummy half.

Not sure where Ott fits in. Clearly he's back up as we're bound to get injuries at halfback and need to rotate the no9s.

Not sure it is a win-win.

I'm all for players bettering themselves and have no axe to grind whatsoever with him leaving. What I'm not keen on is someone training full-time with another club with different systems and processes, then expecting to "turn out" for us seamlessly.

I'd rather give the starting shirt to some one who has trained and has been part of the club for the season.

A player turning up on match day cold like that wouldn't be fair on him, the club or the rest of the players IMO.

I don't think it's as simple as Trin don't need him so he's in the Bradford team. He's not a shoe-in by any means. I can see him floating around a bit and only the lad himself will know if that feels like a good result.

Myers isn't getting picked by us unless we have a few injuries. I make him 4th choice behind Blake, Armitage and Gill.

Agreed. But with a four match ban he won't be doing much for anyone for a while.

Ok. This isn't how I expected the (voluntary) Xmas shutdown of the site to restart. Never thought I'd see 2 weeks go by without anyone posting on the forum.

We've sacked Appo.
Lots of information in the public domain.
I'm not putting it up here.

Club have acted swiftly.

Credit to the club for acting so quickly once charged.

Only option IMO given the gravity of the charges.

Have they really, depends on who knew about the Adult Protection Team report of April 2024, it would be difficult to imagine that the player and his associates were not interviewed in the report process, would you expect that the player could have discussed the allocations with his agent or even team mates or the club welfare officer. Is it a bit of a stretch to think that everyone at the Bulls was oblivious to the fact that player was the subject of the above report to the extent that he was retained on a two year contract extension in August 2024 some five months after the April Adult Protection Team report.

Didn't take someone long to comment without any evidence that the club knew.
Appo maybe hasn't told the club as they weren't aware of this and the police/protection unit aren't going to tip off when an active investigation is under way.