Pinched from Saints Board.....


Paul Sykes
Semi Tadulala
Ben Jeffries
Terry Newton
Andy Lynch
Steve Menzies
Glenn Morrison
Matt Cook
Dave Halley
Matt James
David Solomona
James Donaldson
Duane Straugheir
Danny Orr
Gareth Haggerty
Daniel Heckenberg
Danny Ward
Motu Tony
Chris Thorman
Peter Cusack
Richard Whiting
Graeme Horne
Jamie Thackray
Thomas Lee
Sam Moa
Daniel Fitzhenry
Chaz I'Anson
Makali Aizue
Jason Netherton
Rhys Lovegrove
Ryan Esders
Stanley Gene
Jason Cayless
Matt Gidley
Lee Gilmour
Keiron Cunningham
Sean Long
shaun Ainscough
George Carmont
Phill Bailey
Mark Flanagan
Cameron Phelps
Tim Smith
Andy Coley
Karl Pryce
Paul Johnson
Paul Rauhihi
Lee Briers
Vinnie Anderson
Steve Pickersgill
Mike Cooper

There's a lot of Bradford players on that list.
I really hope we retain Newton, Lynch and Halley, there's a few others I'd like to aswell.
Who would you have?

Phelps
Cayless
Gidley
Sam Moa
Carmont
Ainscough
Tim Smith

Yet Deacon still has a contract.

Bulls to resign:

Paul Sykes
Ben Jeffries
Terry Newton
Andy Lynch
Steve Menzies
Glenn Morrison
James Donaldson
Duane Straugheir

For me the jury is still out on:

Matt Cook
Dave Halley
Matt James

The rest: release.

As for the other players out there, it doesn't really set you on fire does it!

Of interest for me would be: Thorman, Orr, Lee, Gidley and Fitzhenry.

I'd re-sign Halley and Cook, not sure about James. Morro and Menzies we may have to choose between in which case the Beaver as Morro is becoming increasingly injury prone.

I'd like to see a bit more of James. He certainly look good in the brief spells we saw him.

Cook and Halley, can we take them any further?

Mr. Norfolk didn't copy the last player on the list - Chris Bridge. On ability I'd be interested in him - if his attitude has improved. Would he count as home grown?

Also, isn't Dobson on an option deal at HKR. Their chaps seem to think that Saints may be interested in him for next season.

He certainly would be of interest, although every club would be I assume.

He has to be a priority for them!

Not sure if he's a centre, where he currently is at Wire. Definitely got the talent, hope he doesn't end up as a Richard Horne, with no definite position.

I'd have Long and Ainscough. Think Wigan will re-sign Ainscough though, and have a sneaky feeling that Long will end up at Salford with McRae as the replacement for Richie Myler. We should re-sign Sykes, Newton, Lynch, Menzies, Donaldson, Cook, Halley and James.

Curious to know why the three opinions ventured so far do not countenance re-signing Tadulala. We currently have one specialist winger contracted for next season - Sherrife. Doesn't sound like a situation where we can turn away a generally sound player who is likely to bag 15-20 tries.

That list does not look complete to me. No Leeds players on it e.g. Lee Smith for starters

Missed him.
Yep, I'd have him too!!!

How long will he spend on the pitch though?
Depends if anyone else is lined up I suppose.

In origin, I believe it's pirated from sites that have squad listings. I presume that there isn't one on the Leeds site (or Cas, Catalans, Celtic, Salford, Wakefield...).

I see Thorman is on that list. I seem to recall some on here (FA?) reckoned he would have made a good signing for Bradford.

After last night's performance you can see why Huddersfield got rid of him, his tackling technique & defensive play in general is woeful.

I would still have him!

With Tadulala it's a tough one, but due to age i'd put Halley on that wing and start looking for another FB and try to fob Platt off to someone else.

Unless we come up with another quality winger, then I'd keep Taddy till we do. Its not either keeping him or Halley cos at the moment we have only those two.
Offloading Platt could be difficult.

Absolutely, unless we can recruit another destructive winger I think Semi has at least another 1/2 years left in him. I don't particularly rate Halley on the wing, I personally feel he is slightly more effective at FB. Although I still have reservations about his defence one on one to be our long term answer there.

I do feel a little more at ease with Halley at the back though.

I do agree, but as Halley has played more at FB his one and one will improve, and I enjoy watching him there and love to see his kick returns. I hope we sign Halley on a 3 yr because I do believe he is a good player, and if we let him go we will be letting one of the fastest players in the league go and may come back to bite us.

From that list there, i would resign.

Paul Sykes
Semi Tadulala
Ben Jeffries
Terry Newton
Andy Lynch
Steve Menzies
Matt Cook
Dave Halley
James Donaldson

And I would sign from the list

Jamie Thackray
Jason Cayless
Karl Pryce
Chris Bridge

I dont think we need much else to be honest. We need are desperatley in need of an aggresive prop forward and 'in my book' we should let Morrow go and move Burgess to second row, then we need another two aggresive prop forwards that's where Thackray and Cayless come in for me. I also think we need a good centre, and no matter what people think of Karl Pryce he has all the skills in the world, he's fast and he's strong and he's a damn good rugby player when he applies himself. Get him fit, get him ready to go and he'll tear the house down. This would then allow us to move Sykes to FB, which again in my books is his best position. The team generally look confident and safe with Syko at the back. Then on to Chris Bridge, this is another player who has bags of ability, and with regular game time in a playmaking position I believe Chris Bridge would thrive. Play him alongside Jeffries and we'll have two very creative players in our half positions. They are the players I would like to see us sign and if we managed to sign them all this is the team I would like to see take to the field next season.

Sykes. Halley. Nero. Pryce. Tadulala. Bridge. Jeffries. Cayless. Newton. Lynch. Burgess. Menzies. Langley. Subs. Scruton. Thackray. Cook. Rinaldi/Godwin

Re-sign:

Tadulala
Newton
Lynch
Menzies
Cook Halley

I would perhaps re-sign Sykes, but i think his defence isn't the best, but he's probably the best we can get at the moment

Plays I would like to see signed from that list:

Vinnie Anderson.

Don't really rate the rest, except the obvious (Gidley)
Why don't we go in to bring Flanagan back to us? Heard he's doing very well at Wigan reserves, and they arn't giving him the chance to step up, because of Tompkins. I'd be interested. Anyone else?

The thing is, us amongst most teams can not afford to sign 4 superstars every term, simply because of salary cap restrictions, so we've got to be willing to take a chance on players that are either struggling to get a game at their clubs or have been naughty boys, these guys can't afford to demand mega bucks but some have them have great potential and talent and if it can be nutured correctly it could and often proves to be bargain buiness. That's why I have suggested we go for Pryce and Bridge, both of who we all know are very talented players, but they can not demand the wages, Pryce because of his injury status and Bridge because of his behaviour 'apparently', this would then 'probably' leave us a decent amount of SC to strengthen other areas.

I reckon he'll go to Celtics or Cas next year. Only a guess though!

If he goes, it'll be to a bigger club.