Hopefully we are past the worse and renewed optimism about how the squad is shaping up, will lead to plenty of season tickets being bought for Christmas.
This maybe the key to the quality of halfback we sign.

All conjecture, but Gale would be by far and a way the pick of that bunch in my opinion. Always looked very good for London in not the best side, and I thought he would be destined for bigger and better things - but I believe he's took a couple of bad knocks.

Would be a fantastic signing for us to land if he did come available, but I fear he would be out of our price bracket as we are going for an import as we tend to do. Expect to see an imported half very soon.

Anyone got any gossip?

Well I think Katie at no.9 is seeing Ben at no.13 on our street but no one knows so don't say anything.

Not another guy 'in the know'.

The old lady at the local garage told me. FACT

Sounds like he could be Hull bound.

That's what LE reported this morning - then lo and behold, Bradford announce a friendly with Hull FC???

2 possibly 3 new signings over the next few weeks. Just contract stuff to be sorted, as per MC tonight.

Great stuff.

Great news, I'm getting more and more positive about next season!

Great news... Good grief Justin Poore must have been on a lot of money as since we've sold him we seem to be bringing in a number of players? I'm happy as long as we don't over stretch ourselves financially again.

Maybe Poore & Mellars combined wage could of sustained a small 3rd world country for 15 years

How many overseas pleyers are we allowed?

I reckon atleast 1 maybe even 2 of the proposed 3 signings will be french.

So if we are gonna possibly get three what positions do we need to cover?

Winger, utility back, scrum half (and resign goulding as cover)

I'm assuming they're gonna be relatively cheap options, maybe younger players, we can't afford three more relatively good quality signings...Can we?

I'm pretty sure the pack is complete. It's got some size and quite a bit of depth which I hadn't thought we'd have a few weeks ago. Think I'd go:

Anderson
McShane
Raleigh
Tautai
Kirmond
Ryan

With a bench of:

Moore
Ali
Wildie
D Smith

I'm just thinking that we need some size and grunt up front and although good in defence, washbrook didn't bring enough last season.

Trout, Anakin and Walshaw should be ahead of Tautai and Smith in the pecking order.

IMHO Kyle is too small and gets run over by bigger people too easily. Not seen enough of walshaw but a case could be made for Annakin. Think they suffered from no development when kear was head coach. I'm sure they will get opportunities when injuries arrive

Kyle is atleast 6ft 2 tall and he played games not knowing where hed be played - you need to prepare your body in different ways for different positions.
Annakin would be better than Washbrook at Loose Forward however does the 'little things' correctly.
Tautai would get the call before D Smith and Walshaw in my opinion, if he can cut out the errors which he forces upon himself. He is a very strong guy and has pace behind him he just trys too much and makes an error.

Tautai is a proven NRL standard player who like a trout and Annakin need to be told what position they will be expected to play. Tautai should be looking at starting second row with Kirmond with Ali coming off the bench. Annakin should be pushing for 13 with Ryan and Washbrook. Trout should be pushing for second row. I bet Trout in reality is about 5 foot 11 and 15 stone which isn't a problem for a mobile second row.

Trout is definitely 6ft 2 - there is no doubt about that.

And Rob burrow is 5'7