Re: gareth carvell : Wed Feb 12, 2014 3:59 pm  

Welcome back Gareth. Looking forward to seeing you in the black and white shirt again.

Re: gareth carvell : Wed Feb 12, 2014 4:03 pm  

No Chris the record one with the 1500 give away tickets (well almost give away anyway) That should get Easty on here!!!

Re: gareth carvell : Wed Feb 12, 2014 4:10 pm  

Very good signing.
Paea & Carvell
We'll finally have some go forward.

Re: gareth carvell : Wed Feb 12, 2014 4:41 pm  

I'm delighted to see Garreth back at the club. I enjoyed watching him grow from a naive young prop who couldn't catch a slow moving balloon to being one of the most respected props in the league. Looking forward to seeing him play in Black & White again.

Re: gareth carvell : Wed Feb 12, 2014 4:42 pm  

Welcome back Garreth, looking forward to Friday now - weather looks poop, hopefully suits us more than the Dragons.

Re: gareth carvell : Wed Feb 12, 2014 6:56 pm  

Kosh wrote:

Judging by Twitter there will shortly be a queue of Rovers fans emailing the BBC to question the lack of coverage of their 'record crowd' news.

Only because they've given 1000's of tickets away

Re: gareth carvell : Wed Feb 12, 2014 6:57 pm  

Great news on carvell. Just what we need and, as has been said, ridiculous that we weren't in for him when he left warrington. Will make a massive difference to our forwards but we still need better service out of dummy half to get the forwards on the front foot. IMO heremaia should start as he would get us moving forward from the off

Re: gareth carvell : Wed Feb 12, 2014 7:34 pm  

Bulls statement. Looks like this could get messy... http://www.bradfordbulls.co.uk/news/art ... -statement Hope we're more certain of this than the Harris farce haha!

Bulls statement. Looks like this could get messy... http://www.bradfordbulls.co.uk/news/art ... -statement Hope we're more certain of this than the Harris farce haha!

Re: gareth carvell : Wed Feb 12, 2014 7:41 pm  

This is it, should it be removed......

The Bradford Bulls have today been informed that the sports governing body, The Rugby Football League, has confirmed they have registered former England international Garreth Carvell with East Yorkshire outfit, Hull FC.

The club can confirm that this is a breach of contractual terms with the Bulls and is now taking legal action.

A spokeperson for the club stated:

“This information has come as a great surprise to all of us at the club. We believed that due to Gareth taking wages since last year and the fact that he still now has a club sponsored car we would be able to come to an understanding that would work out for all. We have now been left with no alternative but to take legal action.

“A letter was sent to Carvell last week from the clubs HR specialist, ‘Elcons’ explaining that they did not accept his refusal to transfer to Bradford Bulls 2014 Ltd, adding that his playing contract will only allow him to resign if the club is guilty of serious and persistent breach of the terms and conditions of this agreement. The spokesperson added “We are of the opinion that no such breach has taken place and therefore we assert that he was not entitled to resign from his position as the transfer of his employment in itself does not constitute a serious or persistent breach of the terms and conditions of his agreement.”

“The letter went on to explain the Agreement, which was entered into last year, is with “the Club” being referred to as “Bradford Bulls”. The change in ownership does not affect this Agreement given that Bradford Bulls remains as the "Club.“ The letter finished off by requesting that Carvell return to work/training immediately.

“The club’s board will now turn back to the governing body to request guidance in this matter as well as moving forward with their own legal action. The board in no way wants to restrict a player from plying their trade but this and recent situations like this, could set an extremely dangerous precedent in regards to player contracts and, if all parties are not made accountable, they be viewed as ‘not worth the paper they’re written on’.

“Here at the Provident Stadium we will continue to focus on the opening game of the season this week against the Castleford Tigers.”

Re: gareth carvell : Wed Feb 12, 2014 7:44 pm  

Bull Mania wrote: Bulls statement. Looks like this could get messy... http://www.bradfordbulls.co.uk/news/art ... -statement Hope we're more certain of this than the Harris farce haha! If Bradford did anything at all to change his agreed working conditions especially his wage it's grounds for constructive dismissal. Most Bradford can get is lost of earnings which can't be demonstrated here in my opinion. In short, reckon Bradford will make some noise about it, then employment solicitors will get involved, they try to claim loss of earnings, Carvel will decline and then it will get dropped. Happens all time, it's almost templated.

Bull Mania wrote: Bulls statement. Looks like this could get messy... http://www.bradfordbulls.co.uk/news/art ... -statement Hope we're more certain of this than the Harris farce haha! If Bradford did anything at all to change his agreed working conditions especially his wage it's grounds for constructive dismissal. Most Bradford can get is lost of earnings which can't be demonstrated here in my opinion. In short, reckon Bradford will make some noise about it, then employment solicitors will get involved, they try to claim loss of earnings, Carvel will decline and then it will get dropped. Happens all time, it's almost templated.