Ewan Dowes?

Not sure he'd still be up to super league standard after coming out of retirement.

Saying that, a lot of our team aren't.

Rumours of Bailey seem wide of the mark. Hasn't he just signed a new contract.

Would love him at Bradford.

I'd take any half decent prop right now.

Two year deal last summer. This is his testimonial year too.

And in his testimonial season.

Rumour on Leeds board is he's been sacked so length of contract remaining and fact it's his testimonial could be irrelevent. Doubt we'd be that lucky though

Sacked in your testimonial year must be a first..

Bateman and Whitehead signed new deals with us and were gone within 12 months, so it's not beyond possibility

Just to add to the rumour mill:

Ryan Bailey - out of favour at leeds potentially sacked
Jamal Fakir - left Catalan under a cloud
Ben Evans - will not compete for first team at warrington was offered to bulls on a free beginning of the season
Ben Jones-Bishop - out of favour at leeds with 2 world class wingers already!

They would be good signings for our current team and exactly what we need at the club at the moment! Ryan Bailey in a Bulls shirt just doesn't seem right though!

A world beating competitive Bulls team has every right to sneer at the thought of signing Ryan Bailey. When was that again? 2005?

Have I just trolled my own board? Oh god.

It wasn't a sneer more of a wince! But unfortunately someone like him is exactly what Bulls need at the moment!

Wheres a mod when you need one?!!

That emoticon combo is officially "cooking with green". Teachers pet.

Ben Evans had a couple of games with Wire this year though so it might be hard to get him over here to be flogging himself with defence all year.

Whatever happened to that Fijian lad, Vunakece (sp?) that was supposedly going to Hull? The one who scored against England. Did he go somewhere else? I was impressed with him during the World Cup.

Plays for some Aussie team in the NSW cup

I wonder if we could tempt him (or some playing at that kind of level) across. A "Come play a bit of top flight, get your name out there" sort of thing. I don't watch much Aussie stuff apart from NRL, so I'm not sure what the talent pool is like in the feeder teams etc.

the feeder teams players are paid very well compared to the SL salary cap

Looking forward to the Bulls re-establishing their legendary commitment to signing journeymen players



It's been a while since Richie Mathers had a change of scenery.

Our signing of “journeymen” seemed to peak with McBanana in charge, Franny’s yet to sign a Worrincy, Sheriffe or Chris Nero type.

I expect just about anybody would do for the moment given we’re down to the last 17.

We know super league clubs pay so much to their 1st team squads that they can't afford an A Team anymore - so not surprising that 1st team squads can get a bit depleted during the season. Short sighted in my view.

So on the question of paying players more than can be afforded. Does anyone on here know what the Bulls annual wage bill is now? IMO, even with some expensive players gone the new owners might find there is insufficient income to meet even the current reduced annual wage bill.

Marc said he'll pop over and run a few numbers past you tonight. Make sure you're OK with things.

I thought all those wooden stands had been shut down?

Crikey. That's worrying. I wonder if you should phone Green and tell him that he needs to add up and do some sums quickly. I bet he wishes he had thought of this sort of thing.