Luke Gale isn't going to Huddersfield. He'll be at Odsal for many more years to come.

Just trying to understand where your out of contract players are up to, I had assumed (probably wrongly) that they would have had their agents scouring the game for new clubs for 2013, I even recall Potter saying that they all deserved to get fixed up elsewhere to secure their futures etc.

Was all that knocked on the head by the supposed "gentleman's agreement" preventing other clubs (well barring Huddersfield!) from approaching/signing your players. I actually thought that referred to players that were contracted for 2013 and beyond, not those coming off contract. I can appreciate that there would be a few who would naturally "wait and see" and maybe others who hadn't yet signed up, but I thought the majority of the OOC players would have signed elsewhere, but maybe not since there have been no announcements.

The one name we were linked with, Hargreaves, seems to have retired to take up a job overseas. Whether that is a "Galea type retirement" remains to be seen, but at least he has already announced he is going!

By the sound of things not too many hard facts seem to have emerged yet, other than those who have confirmed they are definitely retiring or what ever.

I have re read the article in today's T & A and I can't find any reference to a list of players who will/have been offered a new deal. It does say that with 17 players out contract, the first team squad will be decimated during the close season.

"With 17 players out of contract, the Bulls’ first-team squad will be decimated during the close-season.

Significantly, however, a number of those – such as Chev Walker , Jarrod Sammut, Manase Manuokafoa, Danny Addy and James Donaldson – are set to be offered new deals.

The Bulls are also busy scouring the market for new signings and Potter is confident there is a core group of talented home-grown players like Elliott Whitehead and John Bateman to build a team around."

rlgood news and bad newsrl

I have just read the article from the T & A online. The paragraph which mentions those players names is missing from the article in the paper version. I thought that both versions would be the same.

Decimated means we'll lose one out of every ten - suspect we'll lose more than that just by natural wastage...

I expect it will be secundimation, though I hope it will only be sextimation

Chev
Nas
Donaldson
Sammut
Addy
McAvoy
Pryce
Joseph

Those are the remaining ooc players who's future has yet to be announced. So the article might go on about 17 players being out of contract, but we already know where 9 of the 17 will be going.

who are the 9 who have announced where their going?. Can only think of seven announcements

jeffries,hargreaves,sibbit retirement
elima catalans
burgess souths
crookes assumed hull but dont think its officially announced yet.
briggs featherstone
who are other 2 and where are they going?.

Ainy is one of the other 2. Is Southernwood under contract?

Southerwood contract tro 2013

Sykes contract at Bulls to 2013 on loan to Wakefield 2012.
Needs to be recalled IMO unless his wages are too high or Wakefield will pay a transfer fee.

According to this thread viewtopic.php?f=19&t=509092&tsmp=1347736236 the 17th person out of contract is some guy called Jonny Payne No, I'd not heard of him either

According to this thread viewtopic.php?f=19&t=509092&tsmp=1347736236 the 17th person out of contract is some guy called Jonny Payne No, I'd not heard of him either

dont think ainscough has announced hes going anywhere yet.