Being linked with us for next season anygood?

Key word being linked, not definatly coming. Jog on

I guess these (hopefully) barmy threads are going to multiply until the financial situation is cleared up.

And until Jason signs a new contract (hopefully). He would be one of the first players I'd like the club to retain for the next few seasons.

unfortunately crookes to hull rumour pre-dates the financial meltdown so I think it may have something to it.

Looked a lot better this season, was a revelation till injury. Far better than Ainscough.

Yep. Hope we can keep him, real hard worker too.

Relax guys, he was only asking for our opinions on the player.

Crookes runs the ball in hard, very similar to Gareth Raynor in that respect but doesn't quite have the ability to spin and offload like Raynor used to do (with almost every tackle if I remember correctly).
He has a pretty safe pair of hands, during this season I can't really remember any instances of him making a glaring error.
He also has pace to burn, you will have seen this during the friendly we played against Hull in pre season when he scored a length of the field intercept try, and again in our league game when he made some great defensive efforts coming across from the opposite wing to almost deny Tom Briscoe a try.
Stick him outside a decent offloading centre like Lulia and he will score tries (see our game against Rovers - Crookes scored a hat trick).

His negatives will be that he's quite small, so may not do so well under the high ball, and he's probably not going to create a try from nothing like Tom Briscoe can.

I would rather he stayed with us, but won't be devastated if he leaves.

he's also given a few penalties away for tackling in the air. a very keen player and very improved. fingers crossed he signs a new deal at the bulls.

He's OOC end of this year so it's his choice .
As a free agent he will no doubt look for the best deal for himself
He may have been offered a further contract at the bulls or he may not, or at least one that he can turn down with a better one promised.
Yes, I would have liked him to stay, but if wants to leave we'll just have to say goodbye.

If we have offered him a deal same or better as his current one are we entitled to compo? Or is that just footie?

Depends how old he is iirc

Well I was thinking younger than 24, but maybe I'm wrong?

You're not wrong, he's 22, so I believe we are entitled to some type of compo

I could think of a few others I would be far more gutted to lose.

Well I would imagine the club will be looking to offer him a new deal after a promising start to this year. Before that he struggled with injuries and never looked likely to be a future star. He still needs to prove himself in SL so we'd be foolish to get into a bidding war for his services.

If the price is right I would like to see him stay at the club though.

Agree about Crookes. With things as they are though there will be quite a few hoping for the same I'd guess.

Think his only difference this year is Keith Lulia at the side of him.

Not sure I would agree entirely, but they did look a good combination. Crookes did a lot of good stuff in defence as well as attack before his injury.

It wouldn't surprise me if this one was true. I was talking with his dad (who works in the same building as me) last season and he was hoping that Widnes would make an offer for him. I got the impression (although it wasn't explicitly stated) that he wasn't enjoying his time a Bradford. Of course this was before his little run of form at the start of this season.

just because you have a chairman with abit of money doesn't mean you can sign up half of superleague its getting boring now. listening to hull fans thinking every player would love to play for them just because gareth ellis is following the money, and your fans have believed the line of "well he just wanted to come here he believes in what we are trying to aim for and we are going to pay him peanuts for the pleasure".

In fairness, how do you think the Hull FC fans felt when we signed McNamara, Vaikona and Radford?

We don't have to like it; we just have to accept that without a rich owner then what went round has come round.

Kn0b!

What has the rich owner got to do with looking at OOC players?

FWIW this rumour has been going around for a couple of months in the RL papers as well, not just this forum.

Along with dozens of others...where would we be without rumours? Yawn..ZZzzzzz

McNamara - indifferent
Radford - slightly peeved
Vaikona - suicidal

To be fair, do you guys not investigate rumoured signings for your club? This isn't some kind of delusional "big club" attitude from Hull fans, we're simply interested in players that the press link us too.

I hope you manage to retain all of your talented young players, and your new management restores Bradford back to "big club" status. The entire league misses the numbers you used to attract.