Warrington haven't poached anyone. I'm not a 100% sure if this is true and someone can tell me if i'm wrong, but the scholarship is different to your academy. As far as i'm aware, your scholarship is made up of local products. So if i played for a Bradford junior club, i would play for Bradford's scholarship system even if i suported Leeds and wanted to play for them. Once Scholarships are up then you are avauilable to sign for a club you choose, your effectively a free agent. Thats how i understand it but i could be completely wrong.
So just because they were on Leeds scholarship, they won't actually Leeds players.

I think when Leeds offer a Signing-On Fee then Warrington Offer a 10x that Signing-On Fee that sounds like are pretty much poaching the players to me.

Bulls set to confirm signing of Penrith's Adrian Purtell this week.

LOL. I was only saying to someone not two days ago that Purtell is such a SL player. But I said he'd be the kind to go to someone like Quins. I guess Bradford got in first.

Again, we'll be slated for signing another Aussie, but tbh I don't care atm. After seeing how shocking we were today I'll take anyone who's an improvement!

Purtell is an absolute dud.

Can you believe that Bradford fans are excited about the Purtell signing ?

They won't have a game to follow if clubs keep signing garbage and not developing and giving opportunities to their own.
SL is almost dead if they can't produce better players than him.

Next years backline will have Purtell, Liulia & Ben Jeffries, if they don't finish last next year it will be a miracle.

Yeah, Bradford are SO guilty of not developing their own players

Fine. And we develop our own players and Hudds or Wire or someone else with a rich owner is able to entice them away - or we inflict it on ourselves. There is a post on a thread on RAB showing a pretty good team made up entirely of ex-Bradford products. Had we have managed to keep most of them, we would be telegraphing how Bulls were able to manage without all but the odd marquee overseas signing.

A combination of the exchange rates, the loss of the image rights etc tax avoidance/evasion mechanism and the increasing NRL salary cap means that the only way you will entice top-level NRL stars to SL in future is if some other means of doing it has been found. Doubtless some clubs will find a way. Bradford as a club (like some others lacking wealthy backers) has very little room to manouevre financially. If we do not get some better performances on the field very soon, there will BE no Bradford. And, sadly, the players who might have ensured we were not in the current position are -to a significant extent - playing for other clubs. So what alternative is there?

If you are so clever, can you share your solution with us? A solution that ensures Bulls will still be here in a year or two? Because I am buggered if I can see one.

Ah Van confirmed as leaving Bradford, rumoured to be joining Widnes.

Ah Van has signed a 2 year deal at Widnes.

Ben Flower rumoured on the Saints board to be a target.

I can believe it, given we've had Sykes & Ah Van in the centres this season.

If we don't finish last it will be a miracle? I'll bet you a grand Bradford don't finish last. I wouldn't bet on us making the playoffs, but there's no way we'll finish last.

It's great that you choose Bradford to have a dig about too. We contribute no quality players to SL from our academy. That's why the England captain is a product of our academy, Sam Burgess one of the best forwards in the world is too. We have a young second rower by the neame of Elliott Whitehead who has played over 50 consecutive games for us, the same can be said for Craig Kopzcak.

Apparently linked with the GIants as well

Updated.