What, is he going to make half the team redundant, declare he'd hate to live in Yorkshire again and then bugger off to Essex?

Stevo said last week that Luke Dorn has signed for a west yorkshire club. Not many of them need a half back or full back I would suspect.

Cas is West Yorkshire club in question.

I spoke to Sammut on Sunday the poor guy was very nervous during the game he loves the Bulls and does want to stay but if the Gaskell signing comes off it leaves him playing second choice with more chance to play at Salford

He was in last week (before Salford game) to find out where he stands in fc plans didn't look too happy after the meeting hope he stays he won us more games than he's lost us and an all round top guy.

I would be surprised if a fully fit, fully committed Jarrod Sammut would play second fiddle to Lee Gaskell, even in Franny's eyes!

It makes me wonder if he's trying to justify a move elsewhere? I'm with you though, we need to keep him. Injuries this year have shown why we need another player to play 6 or 7, as Gale and Sammut struggle to stay fit for an entire season.

Yeah maybe your right davey not really watched Gaskell to comment on his ability over Sammut, but competition for spots are always better for the team guess we'll
have to wait and see I hope he stays

Nobody should be guaranteed a starting spot in our squad and hopefully in 2014 we will have enough numbers to make sure that happens. I'd like to see Sammut stay at the club because he does bring some excitement when he is on form but equally he can leave me pulling my hair out when he comes up when a ridiculous play when we least need it.

When Sammut is on form he is one of the best in the league when if he has an off day he can be a major liability, but i cant see gaskell outing him from number 1 spot though.

Well if we keep Addy we will have plenty of cover for 6/7 with Gale, Sammut, Kearney, Gaskell and Addy. Gaskell would just slot into Centre if and when he is need i would think.

From what I've heard it's Nobby that has told him Gaskell will be first choice, probably to unsettle him. According to another 'Lancashire' player Cummins has not told Gaskell anything of the sort, just that he will be in the squad along with everyone else.

This is probably all down to Nobby trying to spend the money he is being given. He may be going around unsettling players that he wants. Nobody has a god given right for a guaranteed starting spot ina team. You are only as good as your last game and Sammut has been fairly poor. He is brilliant at times but he is poor more times than brilliant. This is a tricky one. Do we keep someone who is hot and cold or do we try and find someone who is consistently good. I like it when Sammut comes off the bench but he can be awfully frustrating and is a maveric rather than a team leader. Tough decision for Franny if Nobby is trying to tempt him away.

the thing is though obviously Nobby knows he's a maverick, like we all do, and probably much better than most. Nobby is a great coach and if he really is after Sammut then that means Nobby doesn't mind signing the maverick that is Sammut, and can't within reason think of anyone better. Is that someone we should be losing? Wysiwyg with Sammut, I personally think during the time he has been here the brilliant and unbelievable things he has done more than compensate for his bad days. Personally I'd much rather have that than a dull but steady alternative.

There was much talk last year and before of Leon Pryce coming back. WTF does he do for most of the time? Sammut has at least 10 flashes of brilliance for every 1 of Leon's, yet many were keen to see Leon back. Don't get me wrong, at the right money I would be in favour of signing Leon if he was available and if we had a vacancy, but would say Sammut offers much more.

I'm not one for jinxes, it's interesting to note Sammut has 16 tries for the SL season (Kearney has 15). 18 tries would make either of them the highest Bulls try scorer since Vainikolo in 2005 with 25.

(2006; Hape, 17. 2007; Vainikolo, 16. 2008; Tadulala, 17. 2009; Tadulala, 13. 2010; Kearney, 11. 2011; Royston, 10. 2012; Kearney, 15.)

i got told he was going to leeds but if he signs for bradford it will be to play hb

Signs for Bradford? He doesn't need to sign anything to stay here, his current contract runs to the end of 2014.

TBH Sammut has won us plenty of games this season. Yes, he can blow hot and cold, but then so do many flair players.

As the old saying goes, form is temporary, class is forever.

I'm not sure he'd be playing 2nd fiddle to Lee Gaskell, but I can see FC continuing to use him as an impact player from the bench because I think he can be more effective in that role, coming on to exploit tiring defences.

My only gripe with that over the last three out of four games is I thought it left our bench light; with Sammut, hooker, prop and second row forward. (names obviously change but positions are constant)

I don't think we can do that next year to be honest.

Correct you don't need Sammut and a hooker on the bench one ot the other it has to be.

I agree, we can't be using a bench spot for a backup half. I suppose the only way we could do it would be to start Addy in the halves and shift him into either LF or SR and then bring Sammut on.
I hope he stays, he tweeted a picture of Dave Parker's gossip column last night that mentioned both Leeds and Salford chasing his signature. To me that came across as him taking the p!ss out of the whole situation, I hope it's all just hot air and he's still here next season.
Yes he's had a few poor games but what halfback hasn't? There honestly aren't that many better 6's in the league atm.

Sammut 7 Gaskell 6, Addy bench spot Gale carrying the water problem solved.

Heard from a usually spot-on source - Sammut had a bust up with FC a few weeks ago. Reason? - Gaskell will be coming in as first choice SO and Sammut will be that impact player off the bench. Sammut regards himself as the primary SO at the club and made his feelings known. FC had to remind him who the boss is and apparently Sammut sulked big style.

Might explain why, after the Dragons game, FC said he wasn't sure where Sammut's head is.

I can't see why FC would feel the need to sign Gaskell as a first choice SO - how many different coaches has Gaskell played under who refused to play him there? Even at Salford, for a time they used Ryan McGoldrick at SO rather than Gaskell. Surely all those coaches can't be wrong?
And yet FC decides to p!ss off one of the most dangerous attacking players on our books? Even if that was FCs intentions for next year, why would he tell Sammut that halfway through this season - when the playoffs were still a possibility - and risk disrupting his form?
The whole thing makes no sense to me.

Think it may have been more along lines that sammut was told he wasn't automatic first pick and player in best form would get the spot. Competition for places can only be a good thing.
I've thought for a while that gale and sammut don't combine particularly well. Sammut excels at very quick, off the cuff, plays. At beginning of season he was on fire when he was playing halfback and was getting the ball first. He either ran it himself or made a quick decision and passed. Since gale came back into team, gales been getting ball first majority of time and he doesn't seem to decide what to do with it as quickly. It's either a kick downfield, a pass, or if he runs out of ideas he eventually passes it to sammut who's closed down by that stage. It's effectively nullified strong point of sammuts game in second half off season IMO.

That's why my suggestion would work better for us as a team.

Dont rate gale that highly. I don't think he asks enough questions of the line. I'm with red, sammut at 7. Addy needs a bit more pace for 6 though, but I see him as a long term 13 because he's a dangerous and strong runner.

Tend to agree with you. Problem is FC seems to see something in Gale that we don't. I know he's had a rough time off field this year but his game was pretty much the same before. Riles too much on his kicking game and doesn't think fast enough.