yes actually!




HTH

you know the fine details of the event

Regardless of what story Bird and his seemingly masochistic girlfriend come up with to explain how the broken glass cut her face (including her eye), we do know that Bird attempted to shift the blame for what happened to his supposed "best friend," who was playing golf at the time. For this alone Bird faces another separate criminal charge.

Team spirit is essential for a successful rugby league team. A rugby league club'' team spirit is not helped by hiring a player who tries to get his "friends" to cop the blame for something that he did.

but u still dont know . the fine details . do you

Maybe linking in to the "Walter Out" topic, but if he moves for an etranger because of the loss of a couple backrowers, as opposed to picking from the choices available from UTC and the LER in general, thenthis will make him les of a coach than Potter.
We got to the Cup final with Potter, during an intensely injury ravaged season. Yes, we did sign foreign cover for Jones, but that is a key position, where we had no available cover. We have plenty of decent backrowers to blood, they should be the first choice.

Precisely. It's the main area of strength in the squad.

you seem well in the know, please do feel free to enlighten us with your knowledge!

agreed, theres no doubt bird is a decent player but I feel we have good players playing in the positions he covers allready

9 month contract signed, according to today's [url=http://www.lindependant.com/articles/2009/02/27/20090227-Sports-Greg-Bird-est-bien-a-Perpignan.php5paper[/url.

Very disappointing news.

quite apart from anything else, he isn't even [ineeded[/i

indeed.
I'd hoped that the dirty [iquinzistes[/i might have priced us out of the market. Unreliable swines.

This will guarantee negative publicity in the papers this weekend. Mind, any publicity would be nice, you wouldn't know there's an SL round going on this weekend reading today's bloody papers.

Sorry can't read French is the paper report saying Bird has signed for you ??

Yes. 9-month contract

Likelihood of Hetherington making a barbed comment or two about the signing: 0.03%

Not read it yet, but can we pettition the french embassy to reject his visa application?

Any chance we could sell him to another SL club within 24 hours?

Guash reckons that Bird is one of the top 5 players in the NRL. Waiting to be registered with the SL, he won't play against Hull, has asked to play with UTC but has been given some time off instead, in preparation for playing against Cas ...

Je ne suis pas contemp du tout!

i told you so

He's wrong. Not even in the top five back row forwards.

Well, since no side in the NRL will touch him I don't think we could call him a top NRL player...

The spin is that he is getting away from the Antipodean papparazi.

I thought it was spelled 'judiciary'

You need to realise that he is one of the five biggest stars in the NRL. The pressure in Australia is enormous and he wants to get away from the papparazi. He's only 25 and in the meantime he has signed a 9 month contract with us.

The only worry is that he might actually believe what he's saying.

Yet to be approved by the RFL, so there's hope yet

Failing that he may well get incarcarated, which would take him off our books. Hope we have a clause for that in the contract.