Southernwood and Briggs must be delighted by this.

What's going on with Briggs then?

Featherstone asked if they could take him on a dual registration and the club said no. So why let him rot in the under 20's and sign a Wakefield cast off?

BTW have you seen who is playing in the halves at Wakefield keeping this lad out? I'll give you a clue - we let him go there as part of the deal that brought Southernwood to Bradford.

Says it all!

Ok so keys now flush our crappy Herbert, keep Briggs as he was great at Cardiff. If he can get back into shape and build his confidence then it's onwards and upwards. Can all the fans chip in to buy herberta airline ticket and send him home!!!!

I'm not worried too much about Cain. He's still only 19, while Kieren is 21 so you would expect him to be further developed as a player.
I'm still confident that by the time he is 21, Cain will have bulked up a little and learnt how to tackle. Once that happens we'll have quite a handy scrum half I reckon.

which means that Jeffries is a good signing as we are bottom end of the table at the moment.

To be fair if Jeffries was fit he would be playing instead of Hyde.

Says in the T & A he'll make his debut against Hull KR next week as the signing was too late for his inclusion at Halifax tomorrow. So he is fit to play.

Now thats a worry with two years to go and mr Hyde is really playing well thanks for the exchange

Jeffries has the occiasional good game but they are few and far between these days. Seems to have lost a yard of pace as well and is starting to pick up injuries. Four and a half games this season says it all. If you can get him fit he'll do you a job but i'd have thought you'd have been setting your sights higher.

TBH I suspect the reason we aren't spending the full salary cap and are signing players unwanted by other clubs isn't down to a lack of ambition.

On the other hand Wakefield are probably debt free now (for the sake of four points) and can probably set their sights a little higher.

Setting our sights on who exactley given it is mid season? Or you could say end of season for all Wakey & Bulls fans!

What's the point in signing someone for the sake of it then? Just because there isn't anyone better available isn't a reason to waste a salary.

I hope I'm wrong but I can't see how signing Jefferies will change anything when it comes to our recent Superleague performances.

Signing for the sake of it!!!!

We have 1 half back fit, the much maligned Herbert!
We have shown a massive lack of a kicking game, no creativity and in experience in the halves
Jeffries, whilst not Thurston will improve this area
What would you have done or more importantly which world class half backs are available at the moment?

This shows what we as fans should expect. We are a bottom 6 Club and not a top 8 club. No improvement and no ambition. Very disappointed with this!

From what I have heard Potter isn't happy with Briggs defence and has had him training on his own working on this. 36% of tackles missed shows this. He is definitely in Potters plans

On thta basis hardly any of the current first teamers should be playing, second worst defence in the league if I remember right. He couldn't make the defence much worse but might be able to add to the attack and creativity!

Sums us up at the minute really. I wouldnt have been too bothered if we had signed him until the end of the season, but to sign him on for 2012 aswell. What will he offer that Southernwood or Briggs would'nt have. Anyway he's another body until the end of the season if he stays fit.

In terms of the length of the contract i wonder if Jeffries had the same term left on his Wakey one? If so if I was him i wouldnt, at his age, be giving up an 18m contract for a 6m one with us

The length of his contract does make me wonder about Kearney as well, I hope we're not in a situation where we might eventually lose Kearney to be replaced by Jefferies. If we were going to have someone from Wakey earlier in the season I would much rather it have been Obst.

Woh cool your jets I'm just given my opinion and asking you a question. No offence intended so sorry if I've overstepped the mark. I just have a different opinion to you.



I honestly don't think he will I don't rate him but like I said I hope I'm wrong.



Well for one thing I don't know which half backs would be available but if the right quality wasn't available I wouldn't bother spending any money until one was.

I'd move L'estrange to Scrum half and Herbert to Stand off. Like it or not Herbert is still our most creative player and will probably remain so. So let him do that and get L'estrange organising the team. I think that he could take the responsibility with Diskin doing his work in front. Diskin signed for us because he wanted more game time and he could play 80 mins. Plus Addy isn't that far off and Kearney will be back at some point.

Potter says in the T&A today that he tried to sign him earlier in the season so it very much looks like this isn't a signing to plug a gap but is the type of signing the club planned to make all along.

What a miserable moaning set of fans we have!

Jeffries is a decent standard SL halfback who is better than anyone we have in our side right now. I expect he has been signed to play 7 this year and also provide some cover for 2012. Non-quota, available for next week and doubt he'll be asking silly money. He isn't the answer long term but he should provide some direction and creativity in the short term. Potter has seen what Briggs can do and obviously doesn't feel he is ready or likely to be this year at least. Looks better than Sykes/Herbie for the next two months!

Why not let him go back to Featherstone on a dual reg then?

He'd still be training full time with the Bulls but would be getting regular gametime at a higher level. Plus he's loved there so would help with his confidence.

When he gets to the level Potter wants him at for first team football we have first dibs. Similarly if injuries mount up like this weekend we can pick him first.

When did he last play front row for Leeds, 'experts'?

Is loving everyones optimism regarding BJ. Lets see how he goes this time round before we start making judgement. How about instead of knocking people before a game u get behind the them and the team. At the wire game there were quite a few fickle fans booing the lads which is totally uncalled for. If ur a true supporter then support them thru thick and thin.

People get too used to the success we have had and expect it all the time. It just doesnt happen.


Rant Over.

From what I have heard the reason wakey have brought Moore in from Batley is because their kicking game was dire and because Jeffries was poor and going missing in most games and that is why Jeffries is now available when he wasnt earlier in the season. Briggs kicking game is ten times better than jeffries.