Bustin is a Cas player on loan at the Bulls though isnt he?

Yeah he is so you won’t be signing him.

I hadn’t thought of Butterworth. He’s only 19 and Bradford academy product. 3rd choice hooker too so fits in perfectly with your recruitment criteria.

missed out on tomkins then, just the type of player we want big second rower... if you can forgive off field antics!

hope to see ferguson back fit and firing soon

Tomkins came back from Union a much lesser player than when he went, as did Sam from NZ, I always wished Sam had not gone over there, he looked a special talent to me with that long ground eating stride, Anyway they have knocked the vinegar out of him over there, He would still get into any SL side but he ain't the player he was.

We could do worse than cast a eye over Drinkwater, he will come second to Tomkins at the Dragons.

I’m not sure taking the player who’s been replaced by someone better by someone just below us in the table is the way we should be going...

I see your point Brearley, we should be looking round for more Gaskel's and Fergusons. Sam Tomkins would replace his counterpart at just about any club, but fair enough it's a matter of opinion, I thought Drinkwater had been a part of the Dragons revival myself, certainly looked good against us, but not seen all that much of him,
Far more likely Giants would get Ellis back from Cas , that's more our style, particularly while he's injured.

brearley!!!!! Nope!!!!

tbh Any recognised halfback would have improved Catalan since they didn’t have one!
Didn’t impress me overly last season - not sure how well he’d fair behind our tiny pack.

woolford saying a signing could be announced in the next couple of days

also that the uate deal is close!

Take your point also jools, but look how good they were with Walsh ( a recognised half) Not many half's do well behind a struggling pack, you need a Roger Millward to be able to do that . Maybe Russel is the long term answer for us.

Anyone heard if we are looking at a left centre? I'd imagine Gelling and Sau would be available given their current situations, both would be good signings to me. A Sau/Uate combination on the left side would be scary

Deal apparently done, 3 years from 2019

been thinking about that left centre spot for a while now... will they go with wardle?? 1 sl game not enough yet to prove himself at this level, hopefully will by end of this season but with another knee injury who knows

will they revert with turner back to centre??

when i saw gelling was available i thought that could be a cracking signing for us at centre but not sure what the club are thinking going forward

thought it was 2 last time woolford spoke about it

They will announce Uate at the Catalan game i'm guessing to try to get casual supporters interested for next year

Saw it on another site so not concrete,