Mick Potter himself has said that some players are talking to other clubs. It may just be the out of contract ones (they have 16 OOC players) but from what I read on the Bradford forum they are all available to move.

Would like to think we would be interested in Kopczak. Is Manuokafoa quota exempt? I think Jason Crookes is on his way to Hull FC.

The kiwi centre looks very good

Kopczak, Gale and Ta'ai have all signed for Huddersfield have they not?

He does, with any luck he could replace Meli.





I have no idea. They certainly need forwards though.

Does anyone have a idea who these supposedly two new players are??

I cant help but feel we missed a trick not getting Liam Watts, fair enough has offield issues, but i think he is the type of player saints need.

Both Martin Gleeson and Scott Moore had off field issues. In the day of the salary cap can a club, of our status, really afford to roll the dice on somebody who doesn't even have a track record of superlative performances?

Totally Agree with your point, But not always do players with previous issues off the field go down the Martin Gleeson route. Sometimes some of the best players in the league only become avaible due to offield issues, previous examples Joel Monaghan (one of the best wingers in the league) and Greg Bird (One of the best players i've seen in superleague which nearly took Catalan to a grand finial on his own)

Granted the players who continue with their offield antics probaly outweigh the one's who turn it around. But when players come along with talent like Watts in a postion we need why not have a punt on him? Obviosuly due to the issues we could have used his contract terms to suit ourselves. i.e A short term deal.

If we take that kind of high and mighty attitude we might miss out on the next Sean Long. Some of our best ever players have been very much in the naughty boy category.

Maybe I got 2+2=5, but Gaskell playing fullback for the U20's was an interesting change. He's always been at SO

Not been on here for while so don't know if it has been mentioned but I heard we are looking at Josh Griffin from Cas.

That was mentioned a while ago.
Brown coached him at hudds, didn't he?
The general concencous is big and good going forward, but very suspect defensively. Apparently has been showing good form in the centres for Cas, as opposed to his more usual wing birth.

He did. I think he only played 2/3 matches though before moving on.

Has anything budged on Scott Taylor of HKR?

I heard someone saw him looking around a masionette in parr that was in need of work....

What are you saying? That we're interested in signing him? He's a fantastic prospect, that's for certain.

He turned down his extension at HKR and a move at the end of the season was implied, it was big news a couple of weeks ago, but no-one seems to have moved on it.

I think he's Leeds bound.

He certainly wont be Saints bound, that's for sure.

Doubt we'd be able to pull that one off unfortunately.

Why not if Leeds can?

Leeds are willing to pay fees. Although he's declined an extension, he's still under contract.

I assume it'd be tricky logistically too.

Hull FC or Leeds would be the front runners, I'd assume.

Are we going to be doing any other business for next season? It's all gone quiet...

Like with the Hill to Warrington thing, how significant a fee is that likely to be? I'm sure we could afford it for a player who looks set to be one of the best forwards in Super League and who could be at the club he moves to for 10+ years.

If we're unwilling to match the ambition of these clubs, it will end up with us behind them every year.

It doesn't look likely to me.

Off contract I believe we have:

Flannery
Wellens
Clough
Dixon
Hale
Shenton

Wellens will stay for certain unfortunately and Clough too? Has he signed a new deal yet?

So it looks like Flannery, Dixon, Hale and Shenton replaced by Manu and Turner. Typical Saints in terms of numbers in and out and I think Manu will be having all of Flannery's, Hale's and Dixon's salaries and probably eating into Shenton's as well.

Flannery and Shenton have officially gone for 2013, and probably Dixon too?

I'd say Laffranchi could fill Dixon's shoes if we bring in a prop (which I hope), Manu replacing Flannery and Turner replacing Shenton...but will we actually bring in a prop? Probably doubtful.