Olivier Elima might fancy a return....

Whitehead is no Paul Newlove.

Depends if the Dr knows that or not

I agree, but I mean the whole scenario where we get decent players for him and not Ryan mcgoldrick

Problem everyone's overlooking with timing of request is that if he'd waited till end of season then other clubs are likely to have finished their recruitment and not have space left accommodate whitehead. Suspect we'll be stuck with him til end of season as most clubs will be at full cap, unless we can do a swap deal with whoever he goes to, to help then free up cap. Comes down to who wants him enough and has a player we'd be interested in in exchange. If Catalans are interested then they have plenty of forwards and are close to a top four team so might be acceptable to him. Wire maybe but they would have to do a player swap as there already at full cap ( reason we couldn't cancel Evans loan). Leeds maybe as longterm replacement for Jjb/Abblett.

Salford are probably only club with cash and cap space but he's seemingly ruled that option out. Maybe be an option til end of season on loan though to get him off our wage bill and we don't have to play them again while they have to play teams around us in table so we get a benefit in short term from strengthening them

Get him to Catalans for no fee but a swap to get Oli Elima back at odsal,

Or maybe even coax Beaver in to another season or two with us LOL

BREAKING NEWS

Bet Fred in Wibsey have revealed they will be making the majority of their staff redundant due to the news of Elliott Whitehead leaving Bradford.

Founder Fred Done said : I have made a fortune from Elliott over the years, BetFred is like a second home to him. He will be sorely missed by ourselves and I have made the decision to cut staff as our profits will take a big hit.

Ramsons hair studio are also rumored to be reloacting to the Salford area pending Whitehead's immediate release.

Swap him for Leon, plus Henderson,Elima,Beaver,and 2 of their big aggressive French players,nearly forgot Paea as well and that young full back,he's fantastic already

Happy with that

I can't see it, but i'd love to get Elima back. Alright, he had a habit of being a penalty machine at times, but he's what our pack is missing IMO. Big, strong and agressive, fires everyone else up, gets under the other team's skin, like when he managed to get McIlorum sent off. As much as it pains me to say it, it's what Ryan Bailey does very, very well for Leeds.

Bateman also did that against peacock when we played them.

Would love Beaver and maybe hendo back and release diskin then we also have more space, would with Heath and O'brien we are ok at hooker, to bad escare signed a new deal with them, but a big french prop wouldnt go a miss.

Is Jamal Fakir available?

His decision is to ask to leave probably a based on a few assumptions, he may not see Bradford getting into the top 8, cant see anything changing next year, his agent has been approached by another club, believes he is top 4 club material !!.
If he wants to leave then let him go as he wont have his heart in any game for us, however don't expect to go for free is going to cost you.
At least he has been honest and up front with wanting to leave rather than getting another club and buggering off

Can we think of any Bulls player who recently signed a new deal with us?

Perhaps he is thinking of the club by trying to raise money for the club (£100,000) by putting himself on the market.
No Sky monies this year, 50% Sky money next year - no brass to buy/tempt players. Shame it's come to this.

You don't seriously think that that is a possibility do you?

escare???Ha Ha.

So,let me get this straight, Eliot wants to leave the Bulls because of xyz,but you think Escare,with the Rugby League world at his feet,would sign for the Bulls???Maybe Sam Tomkins would sign as well?icon_smile.gif))))

Good luck with that.

You never know, stranger things happen at sea - ME and you must admit the Bulls seem to all at sea.

I think it was slightly tongue in cheek in response to me listing the 6 or 7 Catalan players they can give us for Elliott

Well, I'm struggling to see any kind of silver lining from this situation whatsoever, but at least if we do manage to get a fee for Whitehead then we will potentially be able to offer a similar fee for another player currently under contract somewhere else.
That would extend our available player pool somewhat. We can immediately rule out any non-fed trained players since our quota is already full. So no Hendo/Beaver/A.N.Other comebacks I am afraid.

I suspect we may well be flatly refused by Leeds if we made an approach, but I would like us to at least enquire about Liam Hood, Brad Singleton and even Liam McAvoy over at the Rhinos currently.
A player swap with Wire for Blythe and/or Evans would be ok with me as some people have suggested, but I'm honestly not sure how interested Wire are (or ever were for that matter).
There are currently no forwards on Salford's books that I would want to see us make a move for.
I think Wigan is a none starter because I would be very surprised if they are interested. Whitehead is not good enough to get in the Wigan 17.
Hull could be interested, perhaps we could take someone like Jay Pitts or maybe offer Danny Tickle asome kind of deal.

As a Bulls fan I am disappointed that he has decided his future isn't here midway through the season, so much for it being a really tight group! But he is free to hand in a transfer request and appears to have handled it reasonably professionally. I just hope there isn't more nonsense going on behind the scenes, we seem to have a fair few staff departures recently. Move on and try and get the best deal possible in the shortest amount of time now.

Not a bad shout for McAvoy, even a loan move would do us the world of good. He won't come back though, only just left us and is a Leeds lad.

Disappointed as he's got the potential to be a very good player but hasn't fulfilled this so far.
Best result for Bradford now is to get the best transfer fee possible, which given his age and the length of contract remaining it should be significant, and strengthen where we need to rather than swaps with whoever is surplus to requirement elsewhere.
If rumours were true, FC (along with a number of others) was interested in Featherstone's Anthony England but we were not in a position to pay a fee.

Each to their own I guess.

However, sticking with the nautical theme is it like rats deserting a sinking ship?

Bulls Boy I have sent you a PM

It's a sad day when I find out I am losing my job on a forum