Re: 2018 Bradford Bulls : Thu Nov 30, 2017 9:54 pm  

Salford have just announced the signing of one of Fiji’s world cup players. It says in the article he played in all their world cup games and only played twice for Gold Coast Titans before that. They say he could make his debut as early as Jan in their pre-season games subject to visa arrival.

Is this the start of many world cup signings being announced by English clubs? Presumably if Chalmers was “all over” the world cup as he said he would be then we may be making some announcements soon? Doubt it would be anyone that has actually played for an NRL club but if they played 3 times for their country then they should get a visa right?

Hope so.

Re: 2018 Bradford Bulls : Thu Nov 30, 2017 10:21 pm  

Sheffield announced the Magrin signing today btw. Would have liked to have kept him if possible but the sad fact is that if someone else wants one of our players, chances are they will leave. Ethan Ryan seems to be an exception to that rule.

Re: 2018 Bradford Bulls : Thu Nov 30, 2017 10:27 pm  

psychostring wrote:

Salford have just announced the signing of one of Fiji’s world cup players. It says in the article he played in all their world cup games and only played twice for Gold Coast Titans before that. They say he could make his debut as early as Jan in their pre-season games subject to visa arrival.

Is this the start of many world cup signings being announced by English clubs? Presumably if Chalmers was “all over” the world cup as he said he would be then we may be making some announcements soon? Doubt it would be anyone that has actually played for an NRL club but if they played 3 times for their country then they should get a visa right?

Hope so.

I can't be the only one expecting to see "Bulls sign World Cup star" and when clicking the link, it's Shane Toal, Steve Parry, Andrew Gay or Courtney Davies.

Re: 2018 Bradford Bulls : Fri Dec 01, 2017 8:56 am  

I don't think we will sign anyone from world cup.

Re: 2018 Bradford Bulls : Fri Dec 01, 2017 10:03 am  

Think we have a great starting 17 which is stronger than any other in the league. But its a long old season and being the Bulls, we can expect plenty of long term injuries, probably to both half backs. So we desperately need some depth. If we want to achieve promotion, we need a strong squad, not just 17.

Regarding the loan signings. Im OK with them so far as i can't see them being recalled, whereas last year, we all knew Larroyer, Lilley etc would get called back at some point as they were all on the fringes of the first team.

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Re: 2018 Bradford Bulls : Fri Dec 01, 2017 10:07 am  

Bull Mania wrote:

Regarding the loan signings. Im OK with them so far as i can't see them being recalled, whereas last year, we all knew Larroyer, Lilley etc would get called back at some point as they were all on the fringes of the first team.

Shame the owners didn't see the same possibility of players being recalled before Easter last year eh? We might not have ended up in C1.

Anyway, yes, I agree completely we do need to reinforce the squad. I'm hoping a lot of positive news is around the corner as things seem to have gone a bit quiet.

Re: 2018 Bradford Bulls : Fri Dec 01, 2017 11:22 am  

Bullseye wrote:

Shame the owners didn't see the same possibility of players being recalled before Easter last year eh? We might not have ended up in C1.

Anyway, yes, I agree completely we do need to reinforce the squad. I'm hoping a lot of positive news is around the corner as things seem to have gone a bit quiet.

Maybe they're saving any good news for after the early bird deadline in the hope they can squeeze even more money out of the fans by convincing them to buy when it's £50 more.

[Bullseye]

Re: 2018 Bradford Bulls : Fri Dec 01, 2017 11:36 am  

That assumes some sort of plan exists.

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Re: 2018 Bradford Bulls : Fri Dec 01, 2017 11:39 am  

Bullseye wrote:

Shame the owners didn't see the same possibility of players being recalled before Easter last year eh? We might not have ended up in C1.

Anyway, yes, I agree completely we do need to reinforce the squad. I'm hoping a lot of positive news is around the corner as things seem to have gone a bit quiet.

To be utterly fair on last season, I suspect the owners knew only too well what might happen but could do sod all about it. We got whoever was available (and was prepared to come..), and it was all done in a rush anyway with little time to consider any consequences, well, other than the consequences of not signing anybody.

That excuse won't wash this time round though so it's finger out time, as of about three weeks ago.

Re: 2018 Bradford Bulls : Fri Dec 01, 2017 12:31 pm  

My guess is there won't be any more signings announced until the new head coach is announced. I'm guessing the signings up to now had tooveys input at some level, and ac probably wants a coach in place before any more player announcements. Was today the deadline for the coaching applications?