www.twitlonger.com/show/bs44kj Quote On Thursday 21st July 2011, @NRLNEWS said: RR: Rumour is that Eliot Whitehead from ESL side Bradford is in talks with the Bunnies. He's contracted till 2013 with Bradford, but the Bulls would consider releasing him, provided he returns to Bradford when he goes back to the ESL.'"

www.twitlonger.com/show/bs44kj Quote On Thursday 21st July 2011, @NRLNEWS said: RR: Rumour is that Eliot Whitehead from ESL side Bradford is in talks with the Bunnies. He's contracted till 2013 with Bradford, but the Bulls would consider releasing him, provided he returns to Bradford when he goes back to the ESL.'"

You can do nothing to stop them, there's no pint at all in trying to keep a player IF he wants to be elsewhere. It would be a major blow, but perhaps shows that those bagging him on here don't have the same assessment of his abilities as the NRL scouts.

If he did go, the bit about coming back to us is just window dressing, and pretty meaningless, really. Since if he made a go of it, he'd stay there as a fixture.

Pretty depressing rumour, really. But how poor is the standard in the NRL, if one "failing" Sl club in the doldrums is alone potentially supplying about half their players?

I hope not seems to be that we just can't hold on to our talent, if he is rumoured to be talking to them already then we must have given permission so do we have a pontential replacement lined up?

Well it's a surprise to me as although he's got potential he's still got a lot of rough edges.

I'd be gutted to lose him but he has to put his career first.

The poor standard of our comp means the route for young English players with potential should be a season or 2 in the NRL.

I might bump into his sister in the pub tonight as she sometimes makes an appearance. Will see if there is anything in it from her.

Seems an odd one to me

I mean, the stats show that he's made more errors than any other player in Super League this year, so unless they've got a foolproof plan to eliminate his error making, it doesn't seem to me that he'd make the grade in the NRL

But then Michael Worrincy went over there, so who knows?

And another failing club supplying another.

Does make a lot of errors and more worringly ALOT of missed tackles. But he has plenty of potential and his performance on sunday was superb. If he can work more on getting rid of the errors in his game,he's a future international.

I don't know why the Bulls are so weak when it comes to contracts and the NRL. We let one of the brightest young British talents n the game go for £100k, while Salford got £250k for Myler. Bradford is Whitehead's hometown club, so it isn't a case of he doesn't want to be here, but he might prefer to go Sydney. But if the Bulls put a transfer fee on his head, Souths will probably back-out and Whitehead will probably be happy still playing for his hometown club.

The massive strength of the AUD (and NZD) at the moment makes Aus (and NZ) salaries look much higher in GBP terms than they have ever done. So expect a lot more tempting from the antipodes, I'm afraid.

What the aspiring Brits won't realise till they get there is that most of their costs will be in AUD or NZD too, and so they won't be quite as well off as they thought they would be.

It is exactly the opposite of several years ago, when Sterling was far stronger than the Aussie or Kiwi. Then, we were able to attract lots of antipodeans with what looked on paper to be fabulous salaries (except for Wire, obviously, where players go because it has always been their lifetime's anbition and not at all for the money...). Then they had the mother of all shocks when they realised about housing costs and the cost of living generally, and that their costs were in Sterling too.

I'd imagine it's likely down to him hearing how much Sam and George are enjoying it down under and wanting to test himself in the best RL competition, if only for a couple of years.

Yep, and you can't really blame him for that tbh

When Aussie clubs were rumoured to be sniffing around Mossop and the Tomkins they were given 5 year deals. Be interested to see how the approach of the Bulls compares.

We will sell..we are a selling club..we are not a big club who can hang onto players..players with any aspirations know that they have to move onto bigger and better clubs..young tom is the only one who hasnt gone chasing the dollar..yet.

I was wondering how long it would be before somone referred to us as a selling club

Won't be long before tom goes when he got Sam and george telling him how amazing it is Sam was posting on twitter this morning trying to sweeten the deal with hats 

It might be a better lifestyle but at their current age and development, all 4 Burgess brothers will not be on the team sheet for the Rabbitohs!

They have a squad filled with International forwards, Luke is only getting a game due to the injuries they have got this season.

I would prefer to play 1st team for a super league club for the next 3/4 years, then look to move when i'm able to compete for 1st team spot. Not sit in reserve grade, hoping one of my brothers gets injured!

Young Tom could be a cult figure at the Bulls, just depends on how he wants to be remembered I suppose.

Problem there is that, for instance, when I was 19 I couldn't have given a sod about "how I'd be remembered", I suspect the current crop of 19 year olds wouldn't either, and I wouldn't blame them, at that age life's for living not remembering.

Bradford or Bondi?

Hard choice, that...

think if i was his age defo be Bondi as the lifestyle over ther is good and who wouldnt want to go and get well paided with lots of sun

I know which Leon would pick..

Why can't we say £500,000 and he is yours? Or else hands off until 2013.

seem to remember we went down that route with orford. Remind me how that turned out.........

I know which one I would pick.
Who'd want to live their life surrounded by Australians?

Not someone who has stated he regards all Oz females as ugly bovines, I guess?

Having stood on Bondi beach myself (and a good few other places in Oz), I have to say that was very far from my impression!

Had it not been for the mothers, we would have been off to Oz like a shot 25 years ago.