Something needs to be done about salary cap cheating clubs stealing all the best local talented youngsters from smaller clubs etc.

Some sort of announcement from the club apparently on Monday morning.

Let the speculation commence.....

It's confirmation of Orfords release.. No need for speculation

That's what I'd assume it to be too.

I think it's more likely to be the signing of Benji Marshall now that our quota spot is free. *wink wink nudge nudge*

Russell crowe wants Sonny bill at souths and to do so is willing to release sutton and asatosi..

can we have Issac Luke as well pls, just to complete the set n all.

Anything in that knowing wink Paul?

Asotasi would be a top drawer signing and a long overdue replacement (at last!) for Big Joe

We need a 6.. Sutton would be the more likely option.

You already written off Briggs then?

Sutton I believe was a loose forward before switching to stand off. A quality ball playing 13 certainly wouldn't be a bad thing for the Bulls.

maybe a little of briggs being a long term fix while sutton would be some backup to take some off pressure of briggs in short term. Also sutton started out as a loose forward so maybe that we're thinking of him playing their and not displacing briggs anyway.

A bit of quick research on the internet reveals that quite a few see loose forward as his better position. Bit of a utility player than can cover centre, stand off and any of the back row positions. I guess he would tick a lot of boxes for the type of player that we might be looking for.

Fair comments one and all, didn't realise Sutton was quite so versatile



That said I still think we need a forward who can terrorise the opposition and rip holes down the middle, something we haven't really had since Big Joe and Balloo left.

but maybe thats something we can develop ourselves if likes of tom burgess and liam mcavoy continue to progress.

Any reason why the Bulls should be waiting around to see which players are ditched by NRL clubs?

Skip Sutton and make a play for Sonny Bill. Might be a risk after the Orford fiasco but there's no doubting his ability.

seriously doubt we've got the cap space to accomodate him and tbh dont really want to go down route of having one player on a much higher wage than all the others.

Suppose it depends how eager they are for success. Someone of his ability would turn a playoff team into title contenders. A world class loose forward would be the icing on the cake.

Meanwhile back in the real World..

I reckon Sutton would be a good addition to our side and since we have provided Souths with two Burgess brothers it is the least they can do.

Apparently Donaldson is going to be world class. Cant see it myself.

Agreed, don't see why we're still looking for a 6. If Sutton is available then it clearly should be pursued as he's top class, but I would put faith in Briggs, considering how we've signed him..

Sutton is a long way short of top class.

He'd certainly do a job for us, but, the point I was making was people saying 'we need a 6', when we've just signed a very credible one, albeit unproven in SL, but with the potential to be fantastic. I just hope Briggs gets a run in the side and people aren't lynching him from game one.

I thought we'd signed Briggs as our stand off? Good young British talent. What would be the point of signing him to be backup? A player of his ability should be starting. If he's not good enough to be our 1st choice stand off, we shouldn't have signed him. He may not be ready straight away but we have enough cover to allow him to settle in short term.

whilst we dont 'need' a 6 anymore it wouldnt hurt to have another in the squad to provide cover/competition. And if it was someone like sutton who could also strengthen us at loose forward then I don't see a problem. Ideally we'd get someone to play loose who could cover both halves positions as for mine we still look weak at scrum half if herbert gets injured.