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Shame. One of our better props that. Wish him well for the future.

I suspect the club have known about this for a while, which is why they moved to sign Ben Evans.

I'm not expecting this to trigger anyone new coming in.

Bad news for the team but England's health is the most important factor. As others have said, JK must have known this was a potential outcome before picking up Ben Evans. I'd like to see us bring in another big forward but I can't think of anybody decent who is available at the moment. Perhaps we will wait and see if anyone becomes available over the next few weeks/months.

Shame, good luck to the lad.

What about Tom Olbison? Is he signed anywhere?

The bulls need a certain Matty wildie who can play in the halves and hooker, go get him mr Kear

www.bullssquadbooster.co.uk happy to help if anyone wants to join and help further

www.bullssquadbooster.co.uk happy to help if anyone wants to join and help further

We are certainly light up front, need at least 1 more prop and a hooker/halve

It's sad for the lad but his health must come first. I wish him nothing but the best for the future.

Where are these 2 or 3 Superlegue player Kear said would be joing after the cup game and before the sart of the season?

Why do we need another prop? We’ve got Crossley, Fleming, Evans, Walker, Scurr and Levy.

I assumed those places were filled by Evans,Walker and Sanderson. All ex SL players albeit some quite a while ago.

Reference was made to players coming in after the Fev game due to clubs not wanting their players cup tied.

Given Walker and Sanderson were un attached and Toulouse not being involved in the challenge cup obviously Kear wasnt referering to any or those 3.

Sadly it looks like false promises which is very dissapointing to say the least.

Or maybe they are still cup tied?

Plenty of injuries in SL so far, Kear did allude to loans from SL teams maybe due to said injuries clubs are wanting to keep hold of players.

There was talk of Smith from Wigan being a target now I’m not saying he was but look at the injuries and 3/4 line Wigan put out at the weekend and you could see that if this was on it might be now put back? Leeds another club with big injuries if we were lined up for any of their squad

Well if we are relying on SL loans to assemble a play off capable squad then we clearly aren't ready for SL anytime soon are we!

Majority of clubs who have finished in the playoffs/got promoted have loaned players from SL, I don't see a problem.
Hull KR had Jordan Abdull for full season in 2017.
Toronto had Brad Fash and Jack Logan in 2019
Both these clubs got promoted so I don't see the problem of SL loan players helping boost a squad.

As much as I am inclined to agree, Featherstone were lauded by some on how well they were doing and how they were an example to championship teams, despite being based on the same thing for years.

I guess it’s a case of needs must.

I have no major objection to the odd loan here and there to boost the squad but I get the impression that our recruitment is done and we are now relying on some players from SL. They might not materialise or if they do, it might only be short term cover.

To me, that isn't a side with realistic SL ambitions. To me we look like a decent Championship side with a chance of a play off spot but I think promotion is a bit optimistic. Which I'm fine enough with, but the club keep harping on about SL ambitions but I'm not sure the recruitment strategy matches those statements.

This I agree with but I think the club feel they have say we are promotion candidates even if they don’t think it’s realistic, to keep fans on side.

I think most fans are much more realistic these days but they are probably keen to avoid putting out a message that we are midtable championship because it does sell as well

people talk about SL ambition, if we did manage by some fluke to get promoted we don’t have to stick with same side!!!!!

My issue with Featherstone is that they had around 5 loanees plus dual reg whilst trying to gain promotion which in my opinion is wrong. The teams of Hull KR and Toronto only had 1 or 2 loans.

When we had 5-6 loans in 2017 we were kept in the Championship after liquidation and had to assemble a squad in pretty much 2 weeks. That was needs must. A promotion contender should not be having dual reg AND loans too.

Oh wow really?

As I say, I am quite content where we are, I just think it is time to move away from talking about SL and getting Bradford back to where we belong etc. It still gets trotted out in interviews with new players etc and that would be fine if we were investing to make that a realistic aim.

I guess our best hope might be that some of these young players all flourish around the same time and we hold onto them long enough to form a side good enough. But generally they seem to get picked off as soon as they show promise, which is understandable but frustrating.

The point I’m making is people are criticising for showing SL ambition but adding loan players. Budgeting unfortunately for most clubs means a sprinkling of top quality champ players padded out with journeymen or kids with potential that aren’t costing the earth. That’s what makes a champ squad unless you have money ala Leigh and are able to build a team which looked too good for this years championship. Surely there is nothing wrong with this .