Failing Dixon/Escare,

Riley(Warrington)--Broughton(Salford) are both OOC.

Now they would do nicely,but I suspect there may be a few in for Riley.

He's a riley good player! Sorry couldn't resist.

No seriously he is really good

I can't understand why the t&a would run that piece about Ainscough if there was no chance of him coming back. Why pick him out amongst all the other ex-Bradford players?
Also, he keeps being mentioned in tweets from the official Bulls twitter feed. It might be just a coincidence, but again he is the only ex-player being mentioned/asked to retweet info etc. Why him and nobody else?

We won't get Dixon or Escare, not a chance. Riley I would take, but he won't be cheap and I imagine he would have his pick of offers.

Riley and Dixon are the quickest wingers in Super League.Imagine what firepower a team would have with them two out wide.

Riley, Foster and Donno on the left.
Dixon, Blythe and Bateman on the right.

Would be fairly decent.

Would have a decent change of landing Broughton, cant see salford keeping him especially as they have their heads up in the clouds.

Any news on Gaskell??? We still looking at him as he would be cover and also a good centre.

Wouldn't send shivers down my spine playing against the above, only Blythe and Bateman could pose an issue.

Given Warrington seem to be going though a similar building process, it wouldn't surprise me to see Blythe playing 1st team for them next year.

I think Bateman plays better in the left, Imo.

Rebuilding is what has been going on since we came out of admin.

Talk of the likes of Escare, Mannering, Matulino etc coming is total insanity. The club are skint. We get half the sky money of everyone else too. That's why we have only 4 fulltime backroom staff working with the players.

Some folk on here need to take a reality check.

100% correct.

Well we can all go on about who we would like to see pulling on a Bulls shirt - but look at from the players point of view: most would like to be in a top four club like Mr Whitehead, most would be rightfully wary of a club which nearly went under less than a year ago, and the terraces are not exactly buzzing at the moment.

So as Bullseye says - a bit a realism, lets see if FC can put a stronger squad togather for next year, lets see if we can strengthen the backroom team, lets see if Robbie can work some magic and attract some more funds into the club. So what do I think would be a reasonable target for next year - top 8 placing and winning more than half our games - from last year that would be a major achievement.

Exactly and escare has signed 2 years at cats.

Broughtons already signed for Hudds. Koucash basically told the Salford fans at a fans forum a while back.

Dale Ferguson to be announced in the morning apparently.

Thats my point when I started this thread I would like to know "realistically" who we could sign AND who we could lose in order to improve next year.

Escare and alot from aus we hve no hope in hell of getring anywhere near but I beliege there are some decent players out there who will come in and do a good job for us, would like to hear everyone's thoughts on who we could sign that would inprove our team and also add depth to our squad.

Spot on Bullseye. We aren't going to be signing any superstars like Escare. In fact i was shocked we managed to land a player like Carvell. Dale Fergusons are the types of players we will be signing. Honest hard grafters who will improve the team.

For me Ainscough is a no brainer. We desperately need some speed. Not just attacking wise, but so we also have someone other than Kear to chase down the opposition when they make a break. Think Cummins made an error letting him go. His enthusiasm his infectious.

Cummins didn't let Ainscough go, he rejected the contract offer.

Practically let him go with the offer he gave Ainscough. And tbf we have paid for not having pace out wide. Only Kear who's fast.

Hasn't there been a change in Ainey's circumstances or so I read somewhere? Course, it might be Bullsheet of the lowest order and I won't pretend to know what FC would think about it anyway, but to me, if he is now able to come for the original offer, or somewhere near, his enthusiasm alone is worth a fair bit.

I'd take him back if we could afford him, but FC knows a fair bit about wing play so I'd go with his judgement.

Aincough is not good enough. Platt & Kear & Forster are all better. We have enough wingers.

If Platt was good enough FC would have offered him a deal to stay.

Yes he has pace and shows his heart. But he isnt good enough. Fact. NL1 player at best.

We have enough wingers with Foster and Kear?

Surely we need back up?

We have Platt & Wood who can play on the wing & Centre.

We do need another Centre though.

I presume you meant to say Ainscough and not Platt???

With Lulia going our current options for threequarters are:

Kearney
Naughton
Foster
Kear
Wood
Purtell
Platt

We're going to need to add a few to that - two have never even played a SL game.

I wouldn't be surprised to see Purtell hang up his boots at the end of the season. Mind you if we put one K. Dixon in there then that's half the problems solved

I agree, Purtell looks quite jaded.

Keiron Dixon would be an exciting addition but we'd seriously need two centres that know how to defend as without Purtell, Lulia or Blythe our centres are the worst in SL.

Keeping Blythe has to be a major priority.

The story was run due to a slow news day. The details of Ainscough's offer is easy enough to find and it clearly lays out what FC considers him worth in terms of a player. That he's, at best a backup player, and as such not worth a great deal of money