Article in T&A today about Donaldson,if he's getting offered a new contract or not

He has been mentioned on here a time or two, he has his fans and some who are not his fans

Keeping it to a one word answer,so no arguments start on difference of opinions,should he get offered a new contract

I will start it off with a NO

YES

Yes

Donno is one of those we need to keep hold of. He's not had the best of luck with injuries [to say the least but that surely can't last forever. A fit and well James Donaldson will be a big asset for years to come, he is only 22 let's not forget.

YES

Yes for me, with Langley and Walker getting near the end of their carers he is just the sort if young player you need in the squad. Always shows good effort and defence.

Every other SL club would take Donaldson. Some very good judges across the sport rate Donaldson. We have Donaldson. He has loads of potential and has been held back by bad luck. I am personally sick of watching ex-Bulls starring for every other club. We would be nuts to let him go.

Agreed. Seems like every game I watch on Sky features ex-Bulls players playing really well. I'd hate to see Donaldson doing the same next season. The young ones are our future. We can't afford to bring in stars (and I'm not sure I want to anyway), so we need to invest in and nurture Donaldson and his contemporaries.

I don't know if I would agree that every other super league club would want Donaldson

Surely if that was the case he wouldn't be spending so much time at Dewsbury

Northernrelic states he shows good effort and defence,surely that should be a given if you want to be a super league player(yes I know in some games this season not all of our players shown that,Leeds at home especially)

It's the lack of anything with ball in hand that I'm on about,and you can't say he always takes it in,yes he does but his lack of size means he doesn't do anything to get excited about

Think it's time we looked at a better class of player not just average squad members

If every player was dumped at the end of their contracts because they had injuries, poor performance etc. We would have no team, no team spirit - nothing.
You need to nurture the future players - it's the only hope the Bulls have stopping in the SL1 and avoiding the drop at the end of 2014.

Yes and before we start again it would be a yes for Tom Olbison as well.

I am on the fence. I don't like him as a player personally but I do respect the fact that he can defend. He just has no go forward and we desperately need players that have that go forward or else we will continue to be battered by other packs.

I started a thread on this the other day but it got poo pooed!

Time to leave this forum as it's become an exclusive club and I'm an outsider.

YES

Don't go Maccbull, it's not an exclusive club,we are all gods children

Now if you was Joe Tamani I would probably say go on then go

Probably the best tackling technique out of anyone in our entire squad. Keep him.

YES.

Dumping lads at 21 is as stupid as it gets.

I agree, and added a bit for clarity on what I think.

Yes. Surely we should be keeping him, if only as a squad player. We must be something like 4 or 5 players short of a full squad, it would be stupid to let any of the present squad go (with the exception of Diskin), we should be adding to the squad.
We have let too many young homebred players go who come back to bite us. Whats the point in nurturing young players then letting them go, we might as well be a feeder club.

If you pay me £500 in used notes in a brown envelope i can definitely get you accepted into the club and then you'll be an insider. And extra pony and you're promoted to the Clique.

IIRC, they spelt it CLICK....



Whatever happened to them, btw? Don't say they set up a message board!

Perhaps if he hadn't suffered three consecutive ruptured cruciate ligaments he might not be gaining confidence and fitness elsewhere. He's only 21 and when we signed him, it was in the face of stiff competition from sveral major clubs. At his age, and given the obvious grit and determination to even be playing at all after those setbacks, I would be very happy to give him time to regain his full fitness, unless the medicos opined that he never will.


As said, he's only 21, and at 5'11" and 14 stone he's hardly a midget either.


He has showed outstanding promise which may or may not be fullfilled given his terrible run of serious injuries but when we signed him at about 17 he was in the very top echelon of signings and to dismiss him as "average" is, with respect, not logical. Whatever his future holds, he's never been that.

the clique? Why, we meet weekly at tigertot's mansion, but please don't tell anyone.

Yes. Give him another 2 or 3 years. Gets through a lot of tackles.

He's a decent squad player. Should improve. He's had little game time after all. Worth another deal unless we can get anyone much better.