The thing i'm struggling with is that the Bulls have said 5year contract and Whitehead is saying 4years.

Paul has echo'd what i originally thought so i'm not losing my marbles after all!!!

Yep, Whitehead obviously isn't including 2012 when he refers to it on Twitter.

Some very positive news coming out of Odsal lately regarding your youth policy

This is the best way back to the big time for the Bulls by signing up all of your talented juniors on long term deals

I look forward to our derby games that once again attract 20,000 plus crowds and at both venues, as a healthy rivalrly works very well for both clubs

that was my initial assumption too. But after thinking about it presumably his new deal is an improved one. if it kicked in immediately how would we accomodate it under the salary cap which we are supposed to be right upto?.

Pretty certain they brought in rules re back-weighted contracts after wigan fiasco. while you can have a contract that rises in stage think as far as salary cap is concerned they now add up total value of contract and divide it by number of years its for and apply that figure for salary cap each year whether players receiving the money yet or not.

Could we maybe have voided last year of whiteheads old deal (2013 season) and given him a new 4 year contract which starts when his current one now expires (end of 2012 season). he gets improved terms but not til end of season so we can budget for accomodating the raise in the following years salary caps.

Great news. Now need Bateman, Addy, Crookes, Burgess & Donaldson (who i still think will be a star for us) signed up.

Not 100% on his current situation but I'll add in Tom Olbison as well.

According to silsdenbull's squad page he's contracted until 2014, so he's a lower priority. Nobody had mentioned the person I think most needs signing up for 2013 yet...


Mick Potter

Well some decision will have to be made before [itoo[/i long, and it may well be that talks are on-going, though my impression was that there were very mixed views - amongst fans at least, about that. For my money Mick is doing ok in trying circumstances, and if we though he was the answer before last season then there's no reason to believe that things have changed, so yes, get him signed.

Given the state of the team when he took over what more could be expected of him?

I would be looking at where we are after the Salford away game as we will have played a few more B teams away, and played Hull as well, if we are still in the play off places thats got to be good progress from last year that we want more of.

Not sure how true it is, but i've heard Bradford are not offering Jason Crookes a new deal, and he will be signing for Hull FC, but he wanted to stay at Bradford.

Did you hear that from a regular attender at the KC? I only ask because some of them seem to feel that every player worth having is gagging to sign on the dotted to play for them and, imo they are prone to exaggeration.

I'd be surprised if Bradford didn't offer Crookes a new deal. That's not to say another club won't make him an offer the Bulls can't match, but I'd be surprised if they didn't make him any offer at all. Also it looks like he's now a first choice player at Bradford (fully deserved), so I wouldn't be surprised if he wants to stay. I sincerely hope that we're starting to see a set of young players coming through who want to play and be successful at Bradford specifically, it certainly looks that way.

Like i say iam not sure how true it is, but it has not come from anyone who's a Hull fan.

So, we offered him a two year deal when he couldn't get in the side even when we were poop. But we don't offer him a deal when he's established himself in the team and is scoring tries regularly

Yeah, right

It's a sign we're improving when we are seeing constant rumours being started about other clubs signing our players IMO.

Someone at the club told me Crookes will be a Hull player next season. I'm willing to put money on it.

No-one has mentioned it that I have seen but Crookes' attempt to prevent Saints' last try was phenomenal covering.

It was, he busted a gut to get over there from his side of the field.

Crookes has been awesome this year, not just for his tries, but the way he returns the ball and his defence. Its brilliant to see him chase wingers on the opposite side of the field to him if they make a break.

Great covering to catch Wellens in the 1st half too.

Hardly something to put on your CV. It would be close between Wellens & Brendan Hill (current model).

How mean spirited. it was superb, and Wellens' comparative lack of pace is not at all the point. You might as well criticise Kearney for failing to get past the slow Wellens instead of applauding the miraculous full-back's tackle that it actually was.

Typical RL fan exaggerating the negatives, you should take over from Jonathan Davies as a RL commentator.

Typo fixed!

Very good, but you keep missing the pillock

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