It's always good to have something to look forward to - so how about a Bulls v Rhinos game to finish the season - at Odsal of course

Somehow, I doubt that'll be the case. And if it is, I think there'll be people at Leeds and the RFL up in arms about the possibility of Leeds going down

I don't think that will be the million pound game. I think it will be Leeds away at Leigh, Leigh are going the whole season unbeaten

Someone on the Leeds board has just raised an interesting point - could Leeds use the dual reg system to cover for their injuries?
Typically the dual reg system involves SL players moving to the lower league club, but in theory it could work the other way.

It would make a hell of a story, some lad from Fev playing in the WCC!

Followed by an immediate change in promotion/relegation system?!

Trouble is a featherstone player isn't going to be match ready to play superleague.

You'd probably have them play a couple of matches for Fearherstone first.

Well the Bulls have got the monkey on their back now, two wins from two, joint top, never mind though, Leigh are coming across in two weeks to knock it off

Strange bunch those Leigh fans.

The baffling thing is that they genuinely seem surprised that they cop it from opposition fans when it all goes wrong for them.

Thick skinned or just thick?

Ladies and Gentleman please make your way to the "bantering" room the "banter" is served.

Love banter me. Classic #bantz

That's assuming Leigh don't cock it up again

Oh Leigh have a new secret weapon. They've drafted in additional volunteers around their ground who've all had intense training in the heimlich manoeuvre. So no need to worry about choking this year

The concern with Leeds at the moment is they may decide they do need a new half back. Do Leigh and the Bulls need to be concerned about this as we both have a decent half that Leeds may look at?

I can't see Leeds been interested in Addy

Dunno about that - have you checked out his goalkicking record?

Missed the most important one though

Huddersfield now after Brierly. I wasn't talking about Addey. He didn't even cross my mind. We do have another decent half back in his last season though. How much would that harm us if he was persuaded to leave.

Who knows? Gaskell is one of the class players of the comp, no doubt about that, but we still got to the MPG largely without him, and we lost it with him.

Also says in LE that we are interested in him, wonder how seriously we are interested?

It's alright being interested, and I'd be disappointed if we weren't, but logic suggests that, all things being equal, he's going to take an offer from SL assuming there is one on the table. I would always expect any player to do the best for himself and his family - it's a short life as a pro sportsman so it has to maximised.

I think the only reason he would come to us would be to [ireally[/i pig off Beaumont and, to be fair, he must be pretty unchuffed to up and leave in the first place. I wouldn't get my hopes up though....

Depends how he views the offer at Hudds, short term f/b and/or interchange hooker

Depends on a few things, to be fair; is Hudds the only SL offer, are the SL offers actually the ones offering the most money - who knows, an offer from a championship club [imay[/i be the biggest - unlikely as it sounds. Of course, there are also the words of the prospective coach and what his plans may be for position etc. I'm guessing he's been on a decent whack at Leigh to stay in the second tier anyway so what his expectations are is anyone's guess. I'd love to see him at Odsal though, no doubts.

Arguably a Championship Club (as long as they could afford it) are in a better position to offer bigger money. Since the late call was made on expanding the salary cap for Championship teams, all except Leigh are more likely to have a fair amount on the cap they're not using, than Super League teams who've been playing towards a £1.8 million cap for 12 months.

Whether that money is available and you qualify for the 50% relevant thing, is another story entirely. But in theory, Champs clubs have more space on their caps.

To be fair, whilst I take your original point, far from being, "another story", the 50% bit is really just another part of exactly the same calculation.

I can't though see beyond us in our division having anything like the money to [i:26crg62gpossibly[/i probably more expensive, so I'm not totally sure we are in such a position either.

As for SL clubs, they could farm out the odd player on loan to open up the possibility of recruitment, as I guess, so could we, though they would presumably have more to offer than us in that department. Hudds, for instance, could lose more from their cap than us by loaning out players to clubs at the bottom end of SL, whereas we would hopefully be wanting to retain any and all of our SL quality players.

If an SL club were to do that, of course, it may offer possibilities to such as us to take loanees, as well as clubs in the bottom 4 of SL. We live in interesting times!

I would also put the question "is Brierly the quality scrum half we need?" or is he a good poaching half who may not have the skills to guide us round the field.
Interesting to see the Wakey fans complaining about their recent signing from Cas who many on here wanted. Signing a new SH is a big decision and I can see why we are holding back till we are absolutely certain this time.

I don't understand people saying Huddersfield might be short on cap space.

Quite apart from anything, they'll have whatever salary Luke Robinson was on, and I wouldn't have thought that would be peanuts as he was a relatively recent GB International