Re: Did someone hear a rumour? : Wed Jan 12, 2011 9:30 am  

slideby wrote:

you obviously havent seen the youngsters coming through at the bulls.

can you name any?

Re: Did someone hear a rumour? : Wed Jan 12, 2011 9:34 am  

slideby wrote:

you obviously havent seen the youngsters coming through at the bulls.

Bulls have some good young players but all the players they have signed for next season are hardly top players, I don't see why people are tipping Bradford to do so well next season.

Re: Did someone hear a rumour? : Wed Jan 12, 2011 9:35 am  

PAUL M wrote:

Bulls have some good young players but all the players they have signed for next season are hardly top players, I don't see why people are tipping Bradford to do so well next season.

They cannot do any worse, so I suppose the only way to go is up....I reckon a top 8 finish at least.

Re: Did someone hear a rumour? : Wed Jan 12, 2011 9:44 am  

jordanp wrote:

To be fair I wouldn't class Long as an "organising halfback" either, in fact Sammut reminds me of a young Longy, just has that spark about him and can do something special, that said would be pointless in signing him in my opinion if he only wants to stay a year, if we could get him long term would be a top signing.

Looks as though he is finally on his way here, good news for us. 2yr deal i hear.

Re: Did someone hear a rumour? : Wed Jan 12, 2011 10:08 am  

VerbalKint wrote:

Why not get him for a year? if Long and RH are missing for big chunks of the season which we all expect it could make the difference between 2011 been another very average making up the numbers sort of year or a pretty good challanging for a top 4 spot good run in the play offs sort of year.

If it's just for a year I'd rather take a gamble with Garath Moore from Batley, because even if we had Sammut for a year we wouldn't make the 4 in my opinion, long term we could build around him to challenge for the four, on a one year deal we would be back to square one on 2012 and the whole cycle would start again.

Re: Did someone hear a rumour? : Wed Jan 12, 2011 10:17 am  

slideby wrote:

you obviously havent seen the youngsters coming through at the bulls.

There have lost 3 of there best young players in the close season to Souths, Warrington and Huddersfield, the 2 backrowers they have look to have potential though.

Not sure about Briggs, maybe Agar rates Nicklas more than Briggs and Moore?

Re: Did someone hear a rumour? : Wed Jan 12, 2011 10:23 am  

berro's best mate wrote:

do you think that warrented a new 2 year deal????????

We had this debate at the time. Players are worth whatever a club will pay for them and clubs will generally pay more or offer longer deals for the roles that they need most. At the time with Yak, Radford and Dowes all scheduled to leave and with no other options available securing Radford was a must. With other interest in him we needed to offer a 2 year deal or be short of a prop.

In an ideal world i'm sure we'd have given Radford a 1 year deal and brought in a new prop in place of Dowes but it's all about who is available as replacements and we were obviously priced out of the market on some of our other targets.

Re: Did someone hear a rumour? : Wed Jan 12, 2011 10:30 am  

Big Dave T wrote:

In an ideal world i'm sure we'd have given Radford a 1 year deal and brought in a new prop in place of Dowes but it's all about who is available as replacements and we were obviously priced out of the market on some of our other targets.

Which is the single most frustrating thing about the timing of Berrigan going, with the available money we could have strengthened better.

Re: Did someone hear a rumour? : Wed Jan 12, 2011 10:31 am  

Standee wrote:

Which is the single most frustrating thing about the timing of Berrigan going, with the available money we could have strengthened better.

Having the money is one thing. Having a wage structure that's fairly inflexible is another i guess.

Re: Did someone hear a rumour? : Wed Jan 12, 2011 10:35 am  

Big Dave T wrote:

Having the money is one thing. Having a wage structure that's fairly inflexible is another i guess.

The problem with an inflexible wage structure is it ends up, in my experience, with some people earning more than they should, particularly the Local Authority model. You want to give someone a bit of a pay rise, you think they deserve another £1000 a year (for example) but the next step up on the scale gives them £1450, you have two options, keep them where they are (de-motivates them) or pay them the increased wage which is more than what you genuinely believe them to be worth.

Maybe FC have suffered the same in recent years.

I am a firm believer that your wages are a matter for you and the boss, nobody else.