I'd be happy to see someone like Broughton given a shot. He looked a good finisher in the games I have seen. I expect Leeds would require a fee due to his age though.

But wouldn't that fee just be so much per week for the duration of his stay with them? Would they be entitled to ask for any more than that?

Yeh I think it is something like that. He'd certainly get more opportunities at the Bulls.

Well lets hope for some good news next week. We now have no back up for any of the backs or halfabcks at all and we only have one back up prop with any SL experience so the squad couldn't be thinner really!

Exactly! I Dont think we can even meet the RFL minimum requirement for naming a 25 man sqaud yet, so we will be adding to the sqaud, its just when and who.



Probably a relatively small amount, between 1 - 10K ish? (guessing) Something Im sure we could redirect a small amount of Mr Crowes donation towards. And signing a young player with potential from a proven production line, already played some SL games and not looked out of place, surely it wouldnt be a bad move? We might end up paying more to bring in an aussie or older SL journeyman to cover a wing spot.

I dont think it'll happen though, and if the walker rumour is true he could be our option for the wing. I'm assuming Rudd has been told thanks but no thanks, and that none of our outside backs in the reserves/academy are ready to step up? (other people might know more about those two than me!)

More likely it'll be Thorman

By my reckoning we have two overseas spots left for next season yet to be announced. for 2010 we are allowed no more than 6 overseas trained players including quota players, and here is my shot at how that will pan out;

1 - Nero (non-fed trained)
2 - Menzies (quota)
3 - Hall (quota)
4 - L'Estrange (quota)
5 - Kearney (quota)
6 - Walker (quota)

So no Moi Moi or Robson or any other Aussie.

That rule only applies if he's been offered a new contract which is at least equal to his old one. If it isn't he then becomes a free agent who can move anywhere for nothing.

Walker isn't coming and his spot will be taken up by Folau who will be the highest paid player in Super league history. Along with a couple of other highly paid names explains the manouvering under the salary cap and the comments from Peter Hood Yesterday.


I'm not sure if this policy will work as it leaves the squad a bit thin on the ground but Macca wants to go for bust next year because he's out if we don't do anything again.


The Folau thing has now gone across all the other message boards and a newspaper and has nothing to do with me so it gives it more legs.


Then again I could have made this all up who knows?

If we were to send our £500 squadbuilder money to Folau in a brown paper envelope would it count on the salary cap. It could swing the deal.

Those words must never be mentioned on these boards, I've been told off before.

... who knows indeed....

someone pretty close to the club said kearney and walker pretty certain, but may not be close enough to the club to really know - who knows who knows what.

Agree that anyone who is anyone or no-one knows what anyone else knows about what some people know, and even those are not sure about what others know and they are not telling.
Unless they know something that the rest of us don't know and can only allude to it in a knowing way.
I only know that I really don't know WTF is going on.
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