We paid Salford to proceeds of the Burgess sale to take him.

Don't get my hopes up,tbf hes played ok towards the end of the year but he's just not good enough.

apparently in todays MEN steve simms has denied that salford have any interest in signing michael platt.

that'll pee off the platt haters

Must admit it was a strange rumour out of nowhere. Platt had a contract extention and ended the year really well in the . Do we think the Express just made this one up?

or have they been reading the forums too much and picked a rumour off t'internet to start as a story?

express has form for printing stories out of forums as gospel. whilst platt may not be able to hold down a starting place he's shown enough at to be a useful option to have in the squad as cover for FB, and at a push wing imo.

I agree, especially considering how thin the squad is in the backs. We need players in not going out whatever your thoughts on Platt. And Platt had more good moments and games than bad this year IMHO (not perfect by any stretch and he had some shocking moments and games, but nothing equal to the stick he gets), and he was a more than a useful in the last few weeks with hardly any errors but his critics wont want to see that.

his critics are too busy booing him to see anything good he does. How you can boo a player every time he touches the ball is beyond me

...is the right answer.

IMHO too, at least.

I thought Platt played well in the centres, he's got strength and his defense is better than Sykes. I think he has the capability to go well in that position, particularly as he's not continually under the pressure of the high ball, he also offers quite a bit in attack and made some good runs in the last few matches. I'd be sorry to see him go.

Me too!

I think Platt is a far better centre than FB. He seems to have confidence issues which are not helped by the boos everytime he gets near the ball nor the pressure of the spot light being FB brings. Yes he's had bad moments this year. But you can count the Bradford players who've not had bad moments this year on the fingers of a blind butcher's hand. It's just that his brainfarts at FB have painted a large bullseye on his back and made him an easy scape goat

Given how paper thin our backs are looking for 2010 having him leave makes no sense unless we've got someone better lined up.

Platt was the scapegoat for many people last season and I think it is about time that he was given a bit more respect than has been afforded to him since the start of last season.

It seems to me that he has responded well to being dropped form the side and has come back a stronger and more consistent player too, when he could easily have taken his bat home and went in the huff. It is fair to say that Platt will never be a world beater but at this time, the club needs people who are willing to fight hard for the cause rather than just being there for the wages and nothing else.

He would certainly be in my team before a few others that we still have at the club at the moment and, with the right support, Platt could be a good asset to the side rather than the public enemy number one that he has often be portrayed as.

Fair enough, I have slagged him off in the past but he is beginning to prove me wrong and I assume that I am not alone in this.

As has been mentioned, he can cover a number of positions and we would be better off with him than without him at the moment and I wish him all the best for 2010. At least we know that he will give his all for the side.