Quote ="Magic Superbeetle"There is a list here: www.zerotackle.com/super-league/ ... tion-2013/ of players still uncontracted for the 2014 season (some errors are in there, a few wiganers like goulding are still in the list (since they didn't actually announced he'd re-signed, they just gave him a squad number ...) but it's as good as any I've found - as for championship I don't know ...'" The Zero Tackle lists are probably the best out there but there are a number of players on that list who have secured their futures for 2014. But there are plenty on the SL and NRL lists to target and get a core of quality players and supplement them with loanees. Spend over the odds in the key positions and fill the second-row and outside backs full of journeymen from the north or youngsters looking to gain experience.

Quote ="Magic Superbeetle"There is a list here: www.zerotackle.com/super-league/ ... tion-2013/ of players still uncontracted for the 2014 season (some errors are in there, a few wiganers like goulding are still in the list (since they didn't actually announced he'd re-signed, they just gave him a squad number ...) but it's as good as any I've found - as for championship I don't know ...'" The Zero Tackle lists are probably the best out there but there are a number of players on that list who have secured their futures for 2014. But there are plenty on the SL and NRL lists to target and get a core of quality players and supplement them with loanees. Spend over the odds in the key positions and fill the second-row and outside backs full of journeymen from the north or youngsters looking to gain experience.

Club site says new player signings to be announced early Jan.......it`s 5 weeks until we play Leeds in Bailey`s testimonial........we have to find enough to build a squad, get them fit and playing together (not to mention the back room staff required)........not looking good.

Tick tock Gus, tick tock

There's a few of lot likely to be available if the current shambles at Odsal continues.

Just had a look on the Bulls forum...Fans seem to think Sammut has now definately departed.....Us or Giants apparantly,with us favourites....and his twitter account says "one door closing ect"...

Good luck to him wherever he ends up.

God I hope its us. However if he's settled in Bradford and has a family he may prefer to stay where he lives and commute to Hudds.

League Express claim that Hemel approached St Helens to link up with them, but no one got back to them, perhaps with Christmas we have not thought of speaking with them, for what has been a good relationship!

Apparently we've released Jacob Emmitt to join Leigh. I said on the Salford board I'm surprised he hasn't joined the Broncos if hes surplus to requiements at out place, definitely a SL standard prop.

Sammuts got quite a few connections in London IIRC.

Would make my christmas if he came here. Can win games on his own this guy.

Thankfully not Witt now as that useless tool has left

But they did form quite an effective partnership at Crusaders

I don't think we'll get Sammut.

i cant see us getting many signings at all given what happened in the clear out and the way gus conducted himself

That's the spirit!

just been realistic

If a comment on the quality of the player market then yes. But strangely people sign for clubs and organisations despite previous history. Just look at the number of players still keen to sign for the vast majority of failed premier league clubs. Never mind the clubs elsewhere in the RL that have been through the mire.

£10,000 a week to play soccer at anfield and old Trafford with a chance of being picked up by another prem club in 2015 or trips to caravan park and bolted on championship rugby league in 2015 for £1,000 a week.......not forgetting moving 200 miles away from mums cooking hardly a comparison that stands on inspection.

Not sure you got the point. Portsmouth, Coventry, both Sheffields, Leeds. All have had management and Brighton is a great example of a club that had years of rather crap management but people still sign for them.

One of only 14 fully pro clubs we can still draw players if they ain't mummies boys. Two sides to the equation can and can't, depends which side you want to sit on.

I didn't bring tail end premier clubs to the table. All I did was point out the glaring difference between the bottom of the premiership with the "journey men" types who seem to get contracts at these clubs AND the London Broncos who currently have half a team in training with a handful of weeks until the season starts. I'd also point out that whilst fitness and tactics are important in soccer, fitness and tactics are EVERYTHING in top flight Rugby League. London Broncos will start the season well undercooked in both areas and will do well to be competitive with the other bottom tier clubs whilst getting absolutely hammered by the top tier. I'll cheer them on either way...it's a form of insanity!

We could not get decent players when we were stable and I cannot see many moving from the North given the current climate of LB management and our recent past.

I would rather hope that all players are already in training, regardless as to which Club they are at, so fitness at the start of the Season should not be an issue. Given previous discussions about how poor our training was players coming from other clubs could be a blessing as they will have come from a stricter culture than ours which should be beneficial. Those players without clubs are unlikley to be just lounging around.

In reality this far into pre-season neither can I but it doesn't mean it couldn't be achieved. We have had decent northern players in the past when we were actually stable - Orr, Wells, Purdham, Melling. And even when we weren't (or thought we were) - Tommy Lee.

To his credit Comical Ali always made himself available for scrutiny.

I bet he even arranged regular Iraqi POW forums.