Our mid 90's revival was sparked by selling our best player for a large sum and bringing in a new coach with the ability to make inspirational signings.

Wonder what price would we get for Sam Burgess?

Probably what we got for Fielden? And where did that money go? (I guess other than in the pockets of Leeds Rugby and the lawyers...?)

There would be an almighty scramble, Leeds, Wigan, Saints and Warrington would all be interested. I'd bet you would easily clear £250k.

I don't think this would be the answer though, you would be better off keeping him and other younger players and ditching the more experienced average or non performers. Over the next two or three years you must have a few well paid loafers (Solomona etc) coming off contract, just replace them with harder working hungrier (lol) players as they come up and you will get back to where you were a few years ago.

ps, am I right in saying that the Bulls dropped their youth system for a while some years ago? Maybe this is paying back a bit now? If I imagined the whole thing just pretend I never raised it.

pps, you should seriously look at getting shut of Michael Platt, he's a total liability.

He has not been great but last week against Wigan I thought he was one of our better players. His reward was a spot on the bench I am unsure what this will do for his slowly improving confidence.

If he wasn't injured it's another piece of brilliant man management by the boss.

He was limping throughout the Wigan game, I assumed this was why he was on the bench today.

He didn't look injured when he came on or in the warm up.

That's quite a hard POV to refute! Must admit I'd assumed it was cos he defo picked up an injury last week. Or maybe the Boss listened to what Eddievan's "Committee" (love it! ) have been screaming for, and followed their instructions? Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.

one thing I did notice was when Sykes was at fullback and made errors ( fumbled bombs, passing in poor positions, gifting Hall the ball for the hull try etc) people around me didnt comment. yet when Platt came on and made similar errors they were instantly on his back. One thing yesterday proved is that Sykes isn't a massively better fullback option than Platt, in fact on yesterdays and last weeks performances Platt looks the better option.

Can only assume Platt was carrying an injury as based on wigan performances Platt did nothing to deserve dropping with Sykes being much poorer and deserving the drop. With Crookes putting in a decent showing yesterday then maybe it'll be Paul's turn for a bench spot next week.

I'll go along with that, although I'd keep Sykes starting in the centres. He quietened Yeaman down when he reverted there, a task which proved a bit too much for Crookes at this early stage in his career. Think we need to get some of the other issues sorted first so we don't load too much on Crookes right now?

I was also surprised Platt was left out until i read this
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Moral - people are far too quick to jump to conclusions.

Nice line of thinking, but these daysLeeds would never let someone like Lowes go, there's no one of the quality of McNamara and Spruce in the second tier, Saints would be a lot more circumspect about releasing Bernard ...

Dont think there is such a thing as the big 4 clubs. And even if there was I dont think your lot would qualify. You are a team that we expect to win nowerdays and I guess we are not the only ones. To be honest I think that my team (Wakey) can beat either Leeds or Saints but dont expect it to happen every time. Whereas with Bratford I honestly believe that we are a much better side than you and would be supprised if we lost to you. I reckon that you are in a world of trouble. P.S. Halley is good - we will have him at the end of the season....why did he not get a chance at Odsal?