The Giants have the money to sign Bird,but it would be waste of time because he will not be allowed a visa,so dont be getting your hopes up it wont happen.

I may be wrong on this but I thought that to work in Britain if you are an Australian national we have an agreement between the two countries that mean if you are sponsored by a british employer for a fixed period and have the correct skills you can get a working visa quite easily provided you are of good character. That means if you have a conviction within a certain length of time (don't know what that is) you are given special consideration. I have no idea what happens if you are awaiting trial during the period for which the visa is to be granted or whether the australian authorities would let you leave the country in the first place.

That only applies to jobs that are not easily filled by UK nationals.

if you care to check out my views on Bird you will see that i did not want us to sign him - amended Bullpower - - a long time ago before you were even linked with him. I posted that view on the VT and Giants site ages ago.

so there is no holier than thou approach. Nor am i concerned about his criminal behaviour. I just have a big issue with men who hit women. Maybe you do not.

You are welcome to check but hey dont let the facts get in the way.


You will also find that i made a similar point as you have about squad strength two weeks ago. again you can check if you want to rely on facts

If he's found guilty, make all those comments you like. Until then, while he's still innocent by law, that's bang out of order. Do everyone a favour and sod off.

Agreed. I doubt very much that anyone on here knows what actually happened and is relying on media reports to form their opinions. Whether he joins the Bulls or not.. he shouldn't be labelled as a 'wife beater' when he has yet to be found guilty in court.

Beyond reasonable doubt criminal or balance of probability civil. I have heard a lot from friends in Australia and i am happy to stick by my views great player but bad man.


Anyway i will let you get on with and i will state what i said in my first post .

A great signing for you, good player but dont get your hopes up until he gets here.

Au Revoir

So your friends from Australia are in full receipt of all the facts are they. Or are the more than likely like the rest of us just picking up on what's been in the press.

So it's fine in this case then.

www.bradfordbulls.co.uk/news/399 ... FOR%20BIRD dated the 17th which is tomorrow. can this be classed as his visa has been approved.

www.bradfordbulls.co.uk/news/399 ... FOR%20BIRD dated the 17th which is tomorrow. can this be classed as his visa has been approved.

My Visa was pretty straight forward.

I'm shocked, really did not see this one coming at all! Let's hope he is over here as soon as possible.

A great signing but he will return to the NRL in 2010 IMO

Assuming the visa is a non-issue, we've got him. Excellent player and finally we have a top class half back to look forward to watching. Any personal issues can be discussed as far as I'm concerned after his trial and only then are they in any way important.

Interesting to see it's a one year contract with a further two year option. It doesn't seem to state whose option that is though, is it the club or the player who have that option to extend?