like you said leon
and i wouldnt mind craig hall

Leon is an unrealistic target and Craig Hall is gash.

Well,what I heard on Monday was that we were getting Elima, we had an offer for another catalans player, we had offers in for both Karl & Leon, Palea'aesina had an offer on the table and we had 2 Aussies coming. This means that 2 quota players are leaving. along with 5 or 6 other current players. I assumed this would mean Orford & Beaver leaving. My source is half right so far.

Any idea who the 2 aussies are?

The club think Orford is coming back though, so why would they put in for another Aussie?

Elima and Leon will go down well, if Karl comes back, I hope he can find some heart from somewhere.

Hopefully the other Catalans player is Sa, Pelo, Greenshields or Johnson.

well feka has practically signed for salford
greenshiedls may well be the other cats player
someone on the nrl board has said that we have signed or are looking to sign michael crocker
silly of us if true because he did get his visa application rejected twice from memory when he tried to join hull fc

aint johnson or sa
johnson is headed back to oz
2/3 yr deal at NQLD
pelo is a surprise as he has tremendous strength for a small man

He's a quality winger and i'd love to see him at Bradford.

no doubt
very safe under a high ball
speedy and can tackle

Isn't sa going prison next year?

No names on the aussies (naturally). My one concern is that only the Aussie papers seem to to think that Orford isn't coming back for preseason with us. He would be the obvious one to let go if he has expressed an interest in leaving but has been told only if we can get a replacement of similar quality. The rest of the rumours are all a bit of a house of cards - if it all happens perfectly then we would have a good team for next year, unfortunately the best laid plans etc...

Which naturally means signing an average british player who whilst possibly offering an improvement of on what we have in those position (although we DO NOT need a full back) will not make up for the loss of Menzies.

Atm, players we have contracted for next season are:

Full-back: Kearney, Halley, Platt, Finigan

Wing: Halley, Finigan

Centre: Platt, Sykes, Wardle, Crookes

Stand-off: Sykes, Kearney, Addy

Scrum-half: Orford, Southernwood, Kearney

Prop: Lynch, Scruton, Hall, Sculthorpe (for now), G Burgess, T Burgess

Back row: Langley, Hall, Whitehead, Donaldson, Olbison, Andy Tate

Hooker : L'Estrange, Godwin, O'Brien

OOC (but not signed elsewhere yet) : Kopzcak, Crossley, Sheriffe, Reardon, Menzies & Worrincy

I think it's clear that (depending on who resigns) Stand-off, centre, winger, prop are the positions we need to strengthen (in that order)

Personally i'd keep one of Sheriffe or Reardon (whichever will be best value for money), and one or both of Kopzcak & Crossley (as they're both young for props)

It will be an interesting off season as Potter will have the (reportedly) 200k we were under the cap in 2010 plus the wages of Nero, Menzies, Worrincy and possibly Kopzcak, Crossley, Reardon & Sheriffe to work with.

We'll be doing alot of guessing until we've filled our quota spot and got a few more players in.