Clare definitely was at Tong today to say his goodbyes.

Would you be happy throwing in the U19s lads?

I think its time for your latest bidder to step up to the plate.Or he/she will also leave with nothing.

If Clare, Welham and Sidlow go it will be a blow but not the end of the world. Providing we have a team in the Champ next season:

Caro, Macani and Ryan are good enough to score plenty at this level. Campbell as back up.
Walton gets a chance to step up with Foster in the . Oakes as back up (gets more gametime) and Mendieka.
In the prop department the key for me is keeping Kavanagh, Joseph, Magrin and Peltier (he especially has shown the right attitude). That's 4 props who can do a great job in the Champ. Kirk more gametime too.

The major players for me to keep is Moss, Pryce, Chisholm, Keyes, O'Brien, Mellor and Olbison. That is still a great spine and we can build around that.

If O'Brien goes we don't have strong enough hookers in Lumb and Halafihi in my opinion. Moss, Pryce, Chisholm and Keyes speaks for itself really. And Mellor, Olbison and Burr as the backrow/lock is still strong!

I wont get chance to check back on here till later tonight, but I'm fully expecting the liquidation now

Being a Bulls fan - I'll set my expectations as low as possible and that way it wont hurt as much.

The next saga is will anything rise from the phoenix?

I dont blame any player who leaves the club due to this latest fiasco; they have families to support so they cant be expected to be treated like this.

As fans, we are getting pretty used to being tried like mushrooms, but liquidation will be a new low for most of us.

Look on the positive - at least any Bulls stuff we bought over the years maybe come collectible items in 20 years?

But yes - I'd definitely prefer to have a Bulls RL club to support than a collection of memorabilia.

Fingers crossed for everyone

Assuming they're ready or at least physically ready, then no problem. We probably need to shed a few high earners from the squad that failed last year anyway. Let's see what today brings, it might all be over with by end of play today anyway.

Great to be back eh?

You could almost say [isome[/i of those rumoured to be leaving played a large part in digging the hole we are in now...

Had we got top 4 it's unlikely we'd be here. Green may be lots of things but the failure of that squad to deal with the championship helped, massively, to drop us in the mire.

So whilst I have a load of sympathy for their plight they also need to remember that whilst Ferres and green were making the bed, they were happily fluffing the pillows.

Like we have never been away. Another day of refreshing twitter!!!!

The only thing Green has done well at is bringing Rohan in as coach which i feel was a good move but we may not see the reward of it.

Agreed. The way many of the current squad played latterly under Lowes and then in the debacle at Fev was a big reason for us being where we are. Wherever they go I hope those clubs don’t expect too much from them, however I don’t blame anyone for leaving.

Hopefully today will be the end of it one way or another. I suspect it will just carry on until we have no squad left. Then we’ll either scrape survival to end up relegated or be liquidated and that’ll be it.

12 point deduction and loss of 5 players will not make it easy to make the playoffs.
Not as bad as if there is no club mind...

12 point deduction would be pretty much impossible for top 4. If Leigh had that many points taken from them in 2015 (they lost 1 and drew 1) they would have finished on 31 points and finished 5th. Real backs against the wall season (if we survive) but then we aim to finish as high as we can and defend that Shield!

Well yes I was going to stop short of apportioning blame on the players but you cannot get away from the fact that they have to shoulder some of the responsibility for the mess. I'm sure many gave it their best, but as a squad they should have finished in the top 4 fairly comfortable. All that being said, they don't deserve to be going without pay when they have families to look after.

Well if we still have a club this time next week, I think expectations are going to have to be lowered for the season ahead. Let's worry about the immediate threat first though.