If Pryce stays and is preferred at centre, I'd take a look at Dimitri Pelo, once of Catalan and currently at Canberra, for another wing option.

And let Gale decide if he prefers 6 or 7. We signed him as a scrum-half and has excelled there, but is it his position of choice?

Good news from that article is that appears kopczak is only contracted player not to transfer. Puts paid to gale to hudds and Bateman to wire rumours.

What about Beaver as Asst coach?

He has signed1 year extra at Catalan

He certainly had a tough start in his NRL career, he must have spent a fair bit of time dealing with high bombs and being pushed back over the line. especially in the early games.

[url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportbulls/9935536.Bradford_Bulls__Bateman_contract_talks_under_way/bateman contract talks, crookes gone official[/url

"Interim Bulls chief executive Gary Tasker yesterday met with John Bateman ’s agent in a bid to thrash out a new long-term deal for Super League’s best young player.....in a bid to secure the teenager’s future for several more years"


Thats the sort of news that would shift season tickets if we can get it done! Excellent that we can hopefully start to make progress on things like this.


"Meanwhile, Jason Crookes' move to Hull on a three-year deal has finally been confirmed today."

Not new, but now official.

Agreed this is excellent news. His agent also acts for Elliot Whitehead and it says in the article that John (and by inference his agent )wants to stay. Another Gary Tasker quote is :
“Although it’s been well documented that we’ve only got 16 players under contract right now, there is a strong core to that group.

“When I’ve been speaking to agents in recent weeks, you realise that some of those players are the envy of all the big clubs.

That could be agents "bigging up" their case but I suspect there's more than a grain of truth in the remark.
My only disappointment with the article for me is that Tasker is probably leaving -- but may be available as a consultant. I think he's done a tremendous job these past few months and would have made an excellent CEO.

I've just read on [url=http://www.sportinglife.com/rugby-league/news/article/480/8091359/crookes-on-move-to-hullthis[/url article than Bryn Hargreaves is retiring?! That can't be right surely?

Yep he's off to the the USA to pursue another career apparently.

Wow. Good on him I guess, bit of a surprise that.

Huddersfield have released a few players. David Fa'alogo would be worth a one year deal at 32. Also Adam Walker is a young prop at 21 with plenty of potential. Huddersfield wanted to keep him, but he turned their offer down. I believe he's from Bradford too, although I'm nott 100% sure on that.

Fa'alogo's a poor injury record and quota I suspect.

Two good reasons not to sign him. I guess he wouldn't be cheap.

He is from Bradford. My son went to school with him

"In the case of Walker, he has also rejected a new contract, with the club having invoked RFL regulations which stipulate any club acquiring his services pay a compensation fee equivalent to the six years’ development the club have put into him."

Some kind of swap deal for Kopczak maybe?

Kopout's been at the Bulls for nearly 10 years by my reckoning. Should be a decent fee from him at the end of the protracted legal wrangling that's bound to take place.

If i recall walker was on our scholarship along with his brother jonathan now at cas.

Adams a good grafter, i would enquire about doing a deal involving patrick first if not walker and cash would do.

kopczak is over 24 so we dont get the automatic fee for developing him. Any transfer fee would be dependent on proving an illegal approach. Seem to remember that when wakey got done for approaching robinson they got a points deduction and wigan got nothing, although in that case the transfer never actually happened. Be surprised if we see any money from this as kopczak was perfectly entitled to refuse the transfer of his contract. Only dodgy bit is whether he was approached by another club whilst under contract and proving that.

I don't know how true it is, but a friend of mine seems to think that we'll lose a minimum of two players from our quota, with the number more likely to be three. He also says that we have a VERY exciting replacement already lined up for one of these players. If he's as in the know as he makes out, it would really show that OK means business.

My understanding is that we have 4 overseas players on contract-- Kearney L'estrange Lulia and Purtell. There is one more place for next year and everyone has been assuming that Cummins would opt for Manokafoa over Sammut (whose Crusaders exemption has expired). To lose 2 let alone 3 of BK HL Manuo or KL would I think be a massive setback. I know there's not much room for sentiment but if AP is given the all clear then he should be kept.
Personally I'd hope that beefy 1's friend is wrong as I would hate to lose a significant part of what Tasker has called the core of the team ----however exciting the sole replacement might be

He was in our academy set up with his twin brother Johny who's at Castleford. They were both dropped when we signed the Burgess's because they were the better prospect according to our staff at the time.

I thought Jonny was older.

Could maybe see an argument for losing kearney and l'estrange with kear and o'brien taking their positions from within existing squad. Third one could be purtell depending on his fitness. would hate to lose any of them so hope its just a rumour. Also is he including manuokafoa and sammut in our quota players in which case they could be part of the 2-3 going.

Given hull deal seems to have fallen through could exciting player lined up be chase? would slot in nicely alongside gale, assuming he could calm down off the pitch. Cant see OK paying the sort off money cas will want though.

Dont think we want chase, think he has had 1 or 2 good seasons but problems follow him around, and he is far to inconsistant