Why?


Replacing 2 injury prone old second rowers with a younger, fitter, faster NRL GF winner and 2 rising youngsters of our own.

Replacing an ageing injury prone SH, with last years Dall M year, even with a year on Deacon, he is still a better player.

Replacing an inconsistent SO who has never hit the heights he should with a young player with everything to prove and who has a touch of class.

Handing 3 year contracts to 4 of our best upcoming youngsters including the 2 Burgess twins.

Replacing Terry Newton who was dire last year with another quality GF winning player.

Reardon and Sculthorpe both also have somehting to prove, although i'm not too happy about the latter, but I think he's a stop gap until Kopzcak is beter and Crossley, the Burgess twins and Lilycrop are ready to step up.

Doesn't look too bad to me, but you know, we must be looking to do even worse than last season, that really is McNamara's aim.

I have found the name of the prop we are signing for next season, it's James Graham.........however we are selling him straight away to Wigan in a similar move that took place a couple of years ago when Mickey Higham joined Wigan via Bradford, this is due to the fact that Saints will not sell Wigan a virus, this could be the reason for the press conference

Who said there is a press conference next week?

me.

It is official: www.mwse.com.au/default.aspx?s=a ... y&id=21271

It is official: www.mwse.com.au/default.aspx?s=a ... y&id=21271

Also on the BBC site

Very good signing he may not be there for long but he will make a big difference.

Class player.

£280,000 per year for three years is a lot for a 32 year old player.

He is class though am looking forward to seeing him plus Bradford will have alot of cap space I would think due to Burgess and Deacon an others moving on.

Did Warrington win the Challenge Cup or something? Just because he won the Lance Todd it doesnt make him the best SH in SL. I think th SH for both the Grand Final teams would have something to say about that

We, more than most clubs fans should be aware that these figures are often vastly inflated and wholely inaccurate.

He's a quality signing, one that for me, makes Bradford watchable again and I look forward to seeing how he goes there. He's not really got that stunning a backline running off him, but he'll get good go forward from their pack i'd imagine.

Enough said.

Really? I can't say I honestly saw Sean Long and Rob Burrow light up Old Trafford on Grand Final night.

I did see Michael Monaghan light up Wembley stadium on Challenge Cup Final afternoon though.

Remember that often in the media these figures are inflated, and, tbh, if he plays well, I couldn't care less if he was on 1/2 of our cap.

I'm looking forward to 2010 now.

I wish these forums had been around in the early 1990s.

Can you imagine what would have been said when we signed Davies...."good player in his day but past his best and paying that sort of money for a 31 year old is ridiculous..."

No need to go that far back. Wasn't a 29 years old Adrian Morley, burnt out and coming home for an easy life?

Great player, not too sure if its a great signing.

Quite comparable to our Langer signing...Bringing in a top scrum half, but surrounded pretty much by mediocrity.

Always get the feeling with signings like this that it is more about pleasing the fans, and selling slow moving season tickets....

The problem with Morley was the four year deal. Most clubs offered him a two year deal because they knew, that after 2008 he would be long past it. We were the only mugs who would let ourselves be roped into paying his wages in 2009, he couldn't even lift the Challenge Cup on his own he needed Briers to help.

PMSL

Quality again Sally

If Bradford is a club 'on the rise' then I guess Huddersfield and Hull KR are somewhere approaching Jupiter!

That quote could have been taken from Langer when he signed for us, with his mate Andrew Gee.

Sorry to be cynical, but the Orford move smells of a man purely looking for cash.

A bit like andrew johns then.

Deacon to Wigan now confirmed.
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We tried to sign him twice and he turned down the money to stay in the NRL, he would have been outstanding for us and i was really disappointed he never came. he used us to get better deals back home. he's now 32 and looking for a big pay day which you can't blame.

One of the main reasons for turning us down was his ambition to play SoO and for aus which never really materialised for some reason.

I hope Bradford get there moneys worth from him, but we've all seen how long it can take for an aussie to settle to life in the grim north of England compared to the beaches of sydney.

Actually, stuff him, hope he gets booed every game

Can't believe he's 30. It looks like you've signed a new ball boy in that picture.