Be interesting if Mason doesn't play. The reason Griffin is leaving is he had a tattoo done before the Wakey away game and it went 'funny' so he couldn't play. Thewlis had a 'set too' with him, accusing him of being unprofessional, which it was, which ended with Griffin wanting to leave and us allowing him to go if he got better terms which he obviously has at Leeds with a new three year deal and no transfer fee to us even though he's on contract until 2012!

Can't see Mason going as he has a long contract but giving away an England international ain't what a club chasing top honours does especially to one of their rivals who would burn in 'h**l first before do it the other way.

This is the same Leeds who are demanding A$ 150,000 (£100,000) for Buderus if they tear up the last year of his contract! We are letting Griffin go for nowt other than freed up salary cap space.

This means that the following are leaving I suspect, Horne, Hodgson, Griffin, rumour has it that Andy Raleigh has been offered to Hull KR plus some lesser lights.

I will wait to judge what we replace them with Chan I have an open mind about, I have heard Sam Moa for Griffin which I could live with but Murphy and George from Wakey? I would keep Dodgy first.

Any more thoughts about Bradford or beyond ?????

I can't believe any of you lot are even remotely worried about this match!

I'll give you the script now:

Bulls start brightly. May or may not score.
Child gives one of his inexplicable decisions against us, after we have been applying pressure for a few minutes but with scant reward.
Against run of play, you guys go length of the field (through about ten Bulls missed tackles) to score.
Bulls engage standard panic/defensive collapse/gameplan out of the window mode #1 - they have practised that extensively.
Game over.

half an hour later, the half time hooter sounds...

You sure about that? 2 years left will mean either one hell of a pay off or one hell of a signing on fee, plus a contract... could be a good day for him if true!!

I find it hard to believe a grown man would leave a club on the up over an argument over a tattoo! I mean, really? It's a RL club not a creche. I hope that rumour isn't true 'cos it makes all concerned look stupid imo.

it got infected and stopped him playing, coach not a happy bunny

Perhaps griff also a bit miffed about them swapping fergi for Josh?

Perhaps its money.

perhaps we should of kept our best prop

nathan brown and griffin never really seen eye to eye though

think griff leaving as more to do with his contract money been doubled by the rhinos than owt else, even though i hear thewlis does think griff is moody, the figure 150k a year sounds about right.

Same as always,whatever the reason,if they no longer want to be here no point flogging the departed equine.Say we demanded a fee from Leeds and they said no deal,that would just cause more resentment from Griffin towards us.

I think we will beat the Bulls but don't think its a wise thing to give in to Griffin although he'll fall out with leeds when he gets there... If he can't stand thewlis he'll get fed up of Hetherington and mc Dermott I just would have released him to a club that suited us say cas or the bulls or asked for a fee... but strange thing is he won't go public ... he wants to concentrate on this season .. shame he didn't for the wakey game my prediction is Bulls 16-36 Giants shame Fuey ain't playing we are really missing that second quality hooker/ball player from the bench .. and fuey rates as one of our all time best signings from abroad for me....

Forecast for rain on Sunday and no roof!

Kick them out of SL. i say

Last time I looked, there was a pretty extensive roof covering the 5,300 capacity main stand, as well as cover for all the 700-capacity Coral Stand.

There will be more than enough seats available in the main stand to accommodate the likely Hudds travelling support.

Now, was there any other complaint not borne out by the facts that you wanted to whinge about?