It leaves us very dependent on Gaskell remaining fit too, especially when we hit the eights.

Addy would be a far better choice at half back if he would just trust himself more. As it is, he's always a little hesitant and seems in two minds sometimes on the pitch

Is Addy capable of improvng any more? Is Sammut still as good ashe was in 2012/13?

Agree about Addy. He's just a split second too slow in making a decision for HB.

Sammut I would still take. Some players just fit at certain clubs.

Elliott Kear has signed for Salford

I would of taken him back

This. Look at the competition, (including the likely Super 8s competition) and we simply will get nowhere uness our halves can at least compete with those combinations. Purtell is probably my favourite Bulls player, and he does a job wherever he plays, but having him at scrum half as a first choice is just ludicrous.

If we go into next season with the squad as it is in terms of half back, then we're in a worse boat than last season. Seijka didn't work out but he was a last minute gamble that might have paid off, and Mullany could play 7, but now we have no-one except Addy, who whilst I really like needs to be playing 13 and is not consistently good enough at 7 against Mid 8 level sides IMHO. Purtell is a great pro who will put a shift in wherever he's asked I suspect, but hes an outside back, and that's where he should be playing. Lets play our backrowers in the backrow, our outside backs in the outside backs, and lets sign a halfback to play halfback...If Workington or Dewsbury sign Sammut then they'll have one of the top 4 half backs in the league. There was an interesting tweet from JS the other night though regarding boot colours....

Recent HMRC shenanigans suggest that we’re not exactly flush so I’m bracing myself for Purtell and Addy at halfback when Gaskell’s inevitably injured before the 2016 middle 8s.

don't worry bout HMRC, that was 'incorrectly lodged'!!!

Wouldn't read too much into that, the guy he was having a joke with is a Workington director.

Should never have been allowed to leave.

Don't worry, its the RLfans close season so Im not paying too much attention to anything, especially twitter! I'd like us to sign JS so I liked the tweet. But assuming he has signed with someone for 2016, and if I had to bet on who for I'd say Workington not us, how come its not been announced? That's a big signing for Workington if they pull it off.

Sammut's got more footwear than Imelda Marcos so I expect he’s got boots to suit every RL team in the world.

My understanding is the RA&B boots had the colours in the wrong order anyway...

RA&B boots. Training on mornings with Sam Bates. Dewsbury here he comes!

Bit rich considering somebody sharing the same user name sold Sam Burgess for about £20 about 12 - 18 months before his contract finished. And somebody who insisted Bradford wouldn't become a selling club.

I see Jarrod just posted on twitter about having his pot(s?) removed today, guessing thats to do with the wrist surgery I've heard about on some site or other( you never know if these things are real or not)...who knows, maybe this is what the delays have been about, perhaps a fitness test or two and he maybe joining the Bulls after all....

Jimmy has already met him and told him he's not needed. Sorry to end the dream.

And you would know, of course.

I'm genuinely interested to know how you know this? Would you care to elucidate.

First time i've heard of a coach meeting a player to tell him he's not wanted...

Although FWIW, i don't think we'll see Sammut in a Bulls shirt

Yeah, he met him at a motorway service station, at midnight, with his agent, and all were wearing dark glasses and Santa outfits, so that only the most observant of journalists, fans or neigh sayers could could possibly spot them..
Though I think the one with the dark beard may have given them away.

Jimmy also told everyone else at that service station he wasn't signing them.

Not in a service station but these "meeting" seem to be cropping up. I mean, it might be perfectly innocent but why was Ferres having a somewhat "interesting" discussion with Glenn Morrison when Jimmy was on England duty? It must be said that whatever Mr F was showing Glenn on his laptop was certainly of great interest to the big Aussie.