Early rounds of this season.

Twitter Dane does expect he will be here on sunday, playing or watching remains to be seen.

Did I just not receive the "Members hear about it first" e-mail about the Chisholm signing, or have they abandoned that promise too now?

I'd rather Haggerty at HB than Addy. He utterly and completely broke our attack on Sunday. He's just so so slow at passing. Might be temped to put Moss in there and Clare at FB.

Has moss played in halves before, even if he hasnt it would allow us some speed from the ptbs

Chisholm put it on his own twitter this morning and people got hold of it pretty quick (he event tagged the Bulls twitter account into the tweet). I'm guessing the club wasn't expecting that so just had to announce it rather than the usual members first e-mail. Good signing though. RS seems to be developing a good spine to the team for next year.

Think that's correct. The club was outflanked by modern media, though why they think, in 2016 that they can hang around until they are ready to make some Grand Announcement I just don't know. They probably assumed it would take at least six weeks for a ship to sail from Sydney with the news....

Still a 12 month deal is the best I think we're likely to get for a player of his level now. Especially given the likelihood of a greatly reduced amount of central funding.

BTW, on that score, am I right in thinking that it's handed out on the basis of where teams finish AFTER the middle 8s? So if we, by some miracle, manage to squeeze into the top 4, then next year might not be such the strain on the purse strings that some fear

Definitely after the middle 8's. We finished bottom and our owner had to dip deeper into his pockets this season.

It's been claimed on t'other forum that this changed this year, and next years funding is determined by positions at end of regular season. Change has certainly been kept quiet if this is the case.

Could be best for us then, unless we implode over the final four Championship matches this year.

Sounds like Deggsy had a strop at an RFL meeting.........

Don't get me wrong, I tend to think the "you'll hear it here first" idea is nothing short of craziness. Things will always leak out on social media and internet forums in this day and age. Also when they do send the e-mails out, it immediately gets shared all across those same sites, so it's only a matter of seconds before everyone else finds out anyway.

That being said, if you make a promise, especially as part of marketing your season ticket package, you should stick to it. Any official word should go out to members' e-mail boxes at least 30-60 minutes before they release official statements about new contracts, signings or squads. Either that or don't make the promise in the first place.

Meh. It's not a big deal but I like the idea of getting the official confirmation before you lesser mortals

The whole idea is a bit like a politician's promiseprobably[/del won't work in practice anyway, and will be quietly ut unofficially] dropped.