Rumoured to Hull too - but I cannot see him staying in the UK, with his Mrs being in Australia

Depends on if he can get another club in Aus. He's on a big salary and although Wests are willing to pay a chunk of it for a superleague club I doubt they will be as keen to do so for another NRL team. I suppose its down to what level he wants to play at and balancing that against his family life in the short term. He might just take the money for the next 2 years and go to the beach!

Bateman’s career has been a bit of a mess in recent years. He’s looked poor for Wests and was at best OK at Wigan, that is probably generous considering the coin he was on.

A friend of mine who used to be at Bradford and played with Sam Burgess thought he would go back to Wire and Leeds had no chance.

Brisbane also rumoured.

I did notice though that Bentley was training in a top with 18 on the back , so maybe …., who knows

Are you sure that wasn't his initials JB?

Salford are skint again, apparently. They need to find 500k from somewhere.

I wonder if we'll put a bid in for someone like Watkins

I may be 90% cabbaged Vic, but hopefully can still distinguish between letters and numbers.
On rhinos site, scroll down the news until the article on Langley, Bentley on there ,

I’d love to see Kallum come back.

They've beaten the odds in what they've achieved on the field and credit to Salford there but how can they be a viable club financially when they rely so heavily on supporter donations and selling their assets and are still in trouble.

Really feel for their supporters who may not be great in terms of numbers, but certainly are in the terms of the backing they give their club. This seems to be a yearly occurrence and you wonder how long the other clubs will think it is tenable. On a practical and selfish note I'm not sure we'd have the cap space to land Watkins should he even be amenable to such a move.

None of the teams in the league are financially viable.
Salford's problem is they don't have anyone able to plug the gap.

He’s just wearing a spare playing shirt from last season, they wear these in training sometimes.

5 of Salfords pack used to play for Leeds so it would hardly be a progressive step!

I would be happy to have Callum back but he's on a large salary so I doubt we could afford him.

Sneeeeeyd would have been the better option, were he available and had we not just picked up connor.

Can't we just be optimistic with the cards we have with Croft passing up an Nrl contract in favour of the Rhinos surely we have the best 6 and 7 in the competition.

Looks like Perth will be joining the NRL in 2026 or 2027 after all.

Perth were never in doubt for 2027, NRL wouldn't let that slip away. Considering blease has said he expects a decision from Arthur before Xmas, I suspect he waiting to see what happens with Perth

Be funny if Arthur didn`t get the job at Perth after announcing he was leaving us.
Although I`m sure he would wait for confirmation before handing in his notice.

All joking aside, I think we should be going for Sneyd.
Pay a small fee to Salford to help them out.
He's still got 2-3 decent years left.
We could release Frawley and have an OQ spot for centre / back row.

All depends if Frawley wants to go.
If he does then yes great idea and we have our goalkicker sorted as well.

I rate Sneyed but he will be 34 come the start of the season so probably only 1/ 2 years left in him.Releasing Frawley will be easier said than done plus I think Arthur quite likes him.Not convinced even if this happened we would have enough cap space to sign another quota player.

Keith Senior to the Bulls turncoat

I'd take Sneyd over Frawley without a doubt.

Good to see Sivo and Palasia have arrived in the UK. I think that's everybody ready for pre-season.

Looks like Salford are going to be forced to sell a couple of players next week. Will be interesting to see how it plays out.