You hope so don't you?

Give the guy a chance! i've never read so much negativity before a ball has even been kicked!

What I am dying to know is the club said last week that we can expect another forward and another back.

Surely this can not be it?

Reardon I was ok with but this just took all the wind out of my sails for next year already.

One quota spot left and surely cap space left.

I know everyone bangs on about lack of money.
Judging by these 2 this is clearly the case.

Could they be holding back in the hope someone half decent becomes available before or during the early stages of next season?

BAH!!!! we're doomed.

We seem to be hearing that rather too much about our signings! That in itself says something and I don't think it can be all blamed on us being too negative either.

We are signing more players of the type that we wouldn't have really considered 5 or 6 years ago. We're increasingly gambling on players with histories of injury problems, off field problems, those with unfulfilled potential or all three. As has been said in the past when you do that without the spine of the side being of top quality you get poorer performances. This is borne out by the club finishing in worse positions in the table each year since 05.

I know the reasons for this, it all comes down to money. It's just depressing to have the fact rammed home. Of course I'll still be there next year but I can't say I'm particularly looking forward to it.

I thought he'd already been given a chance by Wigan, Cas, Wakey and Hudds, and he'd turned out to be useless, I'd rather have had Chris Feather back (

). Unless of course, you think that Brown and Kear are considerably worse coaches and he just needs the Macca touch to ignite his deeply buried potential?

It's depressing, we've got rid of our biggest star and done what exactly, signed a journeyman no-one else wants.

knowing Bradford, we'll end up with Shirley Crabtree.

The Reardon signing I could take because I thought this is a good bit of business and with a couple of class signings the squad will be improved. We aren't going to get those class signings though are we.

Time after time I see the dross and cast offs of (with all due respect) mid table at best Super league clubs sign for the Bulls and time after time I am prepared to give them the benefit of the doubt. Well not any more Sculthorpe is a crap signing at 30 he's never done anything and never will. I'm not going to give the bloke a break because I know deep down that come June next year we will be adrift and I will be stood on the terrace at Odsal watching the Bulls scrum down after knocking it on on their own 20metre line after Sculthorpe has attempted to off load it in his own half.


I will of course be there no matter what the squad is but personally I can't see how we can compete.

you can judge our ambitions by the fact we are signing players that the big 4 are not interested in but the likes of Barrow, Salford and Wales are interested in!

Now if we have our 2 new Britis on the cheap and the same wage as some of our juniors prospects thats is acceptable .. however i doubt this is the case.

Again we will have a average squad .. however if we sneak into 8th spot it will infact mean we are progressing as a club ... heaven help us all!

We had a better squad last year and made it into 9th. I'd say that in 2010 if we managed anything above 9th we're over achieving. Given that Hull have strengthened they'll rise above us next season. Looking at other squads I'd say we only really look much better than Salford, Quins or Celtic.

He did a good job as the 5th/6th prop at the Giants. he got fitter and was a good squad member.

Macca must rate him as you outbid a few clubs to get him. He has not taken much, if any, of a pay cut to join you.

If he is the big signing to replace Burgess that is a kick in the guts for a lot of loyal Bulls fans.

But to be fair, Macca rates Rikki Sheriffe and Michael Worrincy.

Says it all, really. And I'm one who is prepared to give him, or anyone, a chance now he's here but let's face it, as many have said, at the age of 30 we've all seen all his career what he can do, and the sad fact is that he isn't going to be any better than he has been the last decade.

It's also a poor signing as it's a bucket of ice water over the heads of the fans who have been waiting patiently for the signing of someone, anyone, [iencouraging[/i. Maybe we really, truly cannot afford to set our sights any higher than the likes of Sculthorpe. In fact that's probably it. If so, I would prefer us to have kept the money and played a young lad or two.

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was that about the beer on the coach?

You're forgetting our youthful British coach who will skilfully bring out the best in this motley collection as he is at last allowed to build his own squad and move away from the appalling Noble era... oh sorry, that was the narrative a couple of years back. Still at least he's had a clear out and significantly improved the squad, oops there I go again. However, I don't doubt we can all appreciate the carefully crafted media strategy of letting this out of the bag just before the early bird deadline, which will have the punters queuing up to renew, oops. Anyway at least we have got some 'characters' to bring the families back and create a feelgood factor, what with Reardon and Sculthorpe and maybe even Walker as well, just a shame we didn't get Bird...

I'm just glad it's not down to poor management, a lack of understanding of the fan base, no vision and poor leadership at the top. I will be renewing my season ticket on the basis that our accounts are sound and there's no financial crises, because this evidently true and forms part of the exhilaration I feel every time our team takes to the field.

Well i'll stand by my opinion that i think he's a good player (when fit) i seem to be the only one on here and if he turns out otherwise i'll put my hand up and say i was wrong..

He can be a very good player on his day but being 30, injury prone and for whatever reason can't seem to settle at any one club there are a lot of risks that come with him.



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No, no he wont.

I wish this was announced before I shelled out for a season ticket. Majorly disappointed with this signing, how long before he spits his dummy out with us ?


Desperate times call for desperate measures?

Yes, he broke the clubs/players rules and got fined/dropped, instead of taking it on the chin like another player did he SULKED.

If the accounts aren't sound then sooner or later there will be no sense of exhilaration as no team will take to the field.

Plusn i'd rather have played Crossley.

We've actually got Wakefield fans laughing at us and posting comments like "team in decline" on their own forum. Yes Wakefield fans!!! Supporters of a team that haven't improved enough to go into decline taking the mick out of us because of the signings the club are announcing.

Fair enough. How can we defend this one.

Mind you they've signed Newton & Jeffries, but this signing is in a league of its own.

It'll all be ok when we get the Superdome, you'll see.

Going on last year's form I'm not sure but at least he's at the beginning of his career and should improve. Is Crossley fulltime? If not he should be as he'll never get into proper shape otherwise.