I'm probably wrong on this, but didn't AP say after we'd signed Ellis and announced Arundel, that there would be another 6 that were signed but that they couldn't be announced until September, if so, then we have;

Holdsworth
Crookes
Galea
Johnson
?
?

Which would suggest another 2 to come in, although it maybe that they are now including Watts (who was signed after the 6 to come in statement) and Pitts (young and English).

AP also intimated that we would be getting a new pair of halves, one of which is Holdsworth, the other was obviously Chase, with that now dead in the water, and nobody else better than Seymour available, personally I think we are done.

Talk of Dobson, Finch and Tommy Lulueia sp. is quite frankly pie in the sky, we have our upgrades for 2013 and will go with what we have now.

Whilst not quite what we were hoping for and certainly not a championship team, the rest i.e. Wigan, Warrington, Saints and Leeds are hardly tearing away with their signings. I think it's more a case of the leading pack falling back to us rather than us tearing it up to join them, either way the outcome is the same, in that we will be more competitive next season.......... But a silverware challenging side???????

Who knows!!!!!!!

If it hadn't been for an extraordinary run of injuries and a couple of complete brain-fart performances we'd have been top 4 this season. IMO our squad is already looking better (albeit not by a huge leap) and average luck with injuries could easily see us top 4. Challenging for silverwear might take longer.

We get nowhere near as much off rfl as any other club for the next 2 years, but our owner has said he wil put in the cash to let us still spend up to the cap.

Fair enough pal, I like Bradford Bulls and I wish you all the best for next year except when ya playing us of course

"owner"

a consortium bought Bulls didn't they? and you get the ssame RFL cash as any SL team.

It's a consortium consisting of two people, only one of whom has put any money up AFAIK. So effectively a single owner.

The Bulls will receive reduced funding from the RFL/SL for the next 2 years.

Willie poaching on twitter claims a super league team has signed benji Marshall

tbh its a total wind up

They shouldnt get any, they should have being booted out!!

YAWN.

Short memory there mate. 1999 wasn't that long ago.

We didn't want to merge, but your halfwhit board forced our hand.

It was more the help from the RFL I was getting at.

I think you'll find we helpded the RFL, in a way

I'm sure they sleep easy after paying 1p in the £

In a way, yes.

Superleague is definately stronger having Hull FC in there that's for sure. Same goes for Bradford IMO.

Wonder if the next CVA will be so generous?