I understand Chisholm and Sironen are staying.

Also a couple of announcements next week

First line=


second line= always love waiting for a bulls announecement, never quite know what to expect!

What if it's an announcement to say there is an announcement soon

The owners don't communicate BB'11. So no chance they would announce an announcement.

More good news this morning and all on 3 year deals.

Good night was had by all. Bentley picked up players player & Young player. Kirk got coaches player. Hallas got fans player. Evan Hodgson picked up u19 player of the year & announced a 3yr deal with the club. Special award went to the women's team. Chisholm picked up try of the year for his interception vs HKR. I agree with Rodger, the rumour about Chisholm & Sironen signing was strong in the room.

No not an announcement about an announcement, player signing announcements

Not announcing Nigel Wood is taking charge(yet)

There's a piece in today's T&A about Mendeika being released

I don't think that will be a surprise to anyone, perhaps even being a source of relief - but it does show the club are steadily working through the playing roster and either offering contracts or telling players that their services aren't required.

I would suggest they've already done that, certainly the ones being released

Reiss Butterworth - 3 years
Evan Hodgson - 3 years
Oliver Wilson - 3 years

All confirmed. This is absolutely massive to me, specifically the 3 year part. The amount of Bradford talent knocking about in SL shows how good we are at developing young players. Yet we have lost them all for nothing due to off-field meltdowns. We're signing HG young players we can build a team around as they are on long term contracts. Reiss Butterworth is going to a star.

Not your lad is it Roger

Bradford lad and had a great season with Sheffield.

I'm very pleased with the signings announced so far.

I was hoping Kirk would stay as he has a lot of potential and has started and finished the season strongly. He is holding his own as a prop already and I feel as he gets older and fills out/develops a bit more he could be a good steady prop like a Kopczak (boooo) or Brian McDermott.

Oakes was a massive signing for me, did not expect that at all. He looks excellent already. To get him for 2 years is a big statement of intent. If Smith and Gibson are staying we could be ok already in the centre department (I much prefer Smith at centre not full back).

The three announced today are the icing on the cake. We need to be keeping hold of our exciting young talent and Butterworth and Hodgson have shown that they are exactly that. Haven't seen the other lad but trust John Bastian to know who is capable of turning into a good first team player.

If the rumours of Chisholm and Sironen are true the club are a long way towards convincing me to renew my season ticket regardless of division. Hallas is excellent and I'm glad he signed a deal.

Keyes, Peltier, Moore, Wilkinson, Magrin, Pickersgill, Rickett next please.

Resigned myself to losing Ryan and Roche but if the club manages to keep hold of them then I'll be up to Odsal to part with my money.

Am sure I saw tweet from Dale Chisholm the other day saying he was off back to Oz for the winter to recover from op and be back next season. Anyone else see it??

You mean this one?

[urlhttps://twitter.com/dane_chisholm/status/908527838051041281[/url

Doesn't say who he'll be back for.

Part of me thinks 3 year deals just mean that those players are going to be suing the club in a year or two after they've been redundant because the club's in administration again, ala Sidlow & O'Brien et al. But that's because we've been conditioned into thinking the worst will happen.

If nothing bad does happen, it's good business. I know nothing of Wilson, but Hodgson & Butterworth both look very good prospects so having them for 3 years is excellent.

Get as many Bradford lads from around the leagues as possible.

I think he's had a decent season overall. Think he's missed 3 games with injuries, one of them been against the Bulls. Without checking I think he's scored about 15 tries, tends to put himself in the right place

He doesn't know where he's playing next season yet, couple of offers to think about

Can anyone tell us more about Oliver Wilson as a player ?

Just an aside - Jacob Trueman making his debut for Cas today

Good luck to the lad, but - yeah - a bit of sickener in some ways...

... and has scored a first half hat trick

Yep, thank you Marc Green! But thisnis why im very happy we've signed up Butterworth and Hodgson to 3 year deals

This is vaguely interesting. If the Championship Shield table reset to zero at the start if would look like this:

Toulouse 12
Batley 11
Bradford 10
Dewsbury 8
Sheffield 6
Swinton 4
Oldham 3
Rochdale 2

So 3rd. What a pity about the rest of the season.

indeed, 3 more wins would have kept us up, 2 if we had removed the unfair bash weekend. I can think of 3 games we should have won! Oh well, onto more wins in league 1.....maybe.

Yeah great news about chissy. Now for sironon and Keyes. Keyes and Dane sounds like a great partnership - keyes for the organisation and Dane for the off the cuff stuff.

I've just updated my squad list. Let me no if any changes

1. Lee Smith 2018
2. Ethan Ryan 20
3. James Mendeika 20
4. Ross Oakes 2019
5. Iliess Macani 20
6. Joe Keyes 20
7. Liam Kirk 20
8. Joe Lumb 20
9. Damien Sironen 20
10. Colton Roche 20
11. Dane Chisholm 2019
12. Oscar Thomas 20
13. Jon Magrin 20
14. Ross Peltier 20
15. Omari Caro 20
16. Johnny Campbell 20
17. Brendan Wilkinson 20
18. Ashley Gibson 2018
19. Brandon Pickersgill 20
20. Keenan Tomlinson 20
21. Vila Halafihi 20
22. Josh Rickett 20
23. Sam Hallas 2018
24. Reiss Butterworth 2020
25. Scott Moore 20
26. Evan Hodgson 2020
27. James Davies 20
28. Cory Aston 20
29. Willie Tonga 20
30. Oliver Wilson 2020

League Express suggesting we're signing Matt Garside from London