I know it's a long way off yet but what would you change about the current squad for 2013? I'm just interested in your thoughts.



Personally I would get rid of Sibbit, Walker and Jeffries (all off contract at end of 2012). Cover these losses by playing Olbison, Addy and either McAvoy/Murphy more.

Sell Sykes to Wakefield.

Keep Platt for his last year.



I would also bring back Briggs and Southernwood back from their loans and let Gale, Sammut, Briggs and Southernwood fight for a place in the team. Starting halves obviously Sammut and Gale.



Sign all other off contract players up ASAP. Except Pryce (let him prove he wants it first).



And last be not least sign Potter for 2-3 years.

Probably agree with most of that

keeping Sammut will mean losing Nas. Still not sure who I want to keep more. Impressed with both.



If briggs can come back and do the job we hoped he would then I would keep Nas. Either player will get snapped up by someone next year though.

We should keep Manuokafoa, our pack is starting to look pretty good. That would mean losing Sammut, but so be it. The players i'd let go would be Walker, Jeffries, Sibbit, Ainscough, Joseph, and Sammut. Then sign a 6, maybe try a season long loan deal for Lee Gaskell, another forward and a centre/winger.

What makes you think any of these players would even want to stay at bulls???

Well they look to be enjoying playing with one another for the Bulls at the moment. There may be the odd exception but the squad looks pretty happy to me right now.

Briggs is out of contract too and will be very surprised if he gets a new deal.

I agree, don't think we need to change to much to be honest, 2/3 really good signings IMO. I'd look to keep Manase as it is now, so if we could get a really good stand off with some pace and the ability to get some ball to the three quarters that would be a massive step in the right direction. I'd like to see us sign a couple of really good wingers, Crookes has been good this year and I'd like to see him get back in the side to show us what he can do, but if we could get some lads similar to Luke George and Josh Charnley then with 2 good wingers and a really good 6 we'd be well on our way to being able to trouble the likes of Wigan, Hudds and Wolves.



Our fringe young backrowers, Olbison, Donaldson, Addy have been around for a good 4 years or so now are more than capable of coming in and doing jobs so I see no need for old heads like Walker, Sibbit, Joseph etc etc any more. Hopefully get rid of PLatt and Sykes too.





Then theres McAvoy and Murphy and Ball, all in the 1st team squad aswell. Then there's Southerwood and Briggs(maybe, but unsure) too. All in all, providing we get our young lads signed up for next season and and beyond then weve got a young squad with lots of potential. It's safe to say that I'm really happy with how this squad is developing to be honest.



1. Brett Kearney

2. Elliot Kear

3. Adrian Purtell

4. Keith Lulia

5. Jason Crookes

6.

7. Luke Gale

8. Craig Kopczak

9. Matt Diskin

10. Bryn Hargreaves

11. Olivier Elima

12. John Bateman

13. Jamie Lanlgey

14. Heath L'estrange

15. Tom Burgess

16. Manese Manuokafoa

17. Elliot Whitehead

18. Nick Scruton

19. Danny Addy

20. James Donaldson

21. Adam O'Brien

22. Cain Southernwood

23. Tom Olbsion

24. Liam McAvoy

25. Jobe Murphy

26. Alex Ball

27. Karl Pryce



Anybody have any idea of some lads that are available at the end of the year or which lads could come in from our academy and look to put some pressure on the players already here?

Agreed, we definitely need to move away from big turnover of players each season. And from what we've seen so far this year a big clear out isn't required anyway. I suspect we might need to reduce the depth in the squad to bring in a couple of quality players. But I also suspect we might be paying some pretty average players more than their worth.



Potter has on the whole made some shrewd signings, but without a quota spot likely to be free we need to keep hold of people like Elima. The decision on Manase v Jarrod might well depend on which replacements are available if both players continuing playing well.

What about Gary Wheeler for stand off. Saints have Hohiha and Gaskell, and it looks like Nathan Brown wants Jordan Turner to play centre for them.

i can't see gary wheeler coming, he's only 22 and saints wont want to get rid of a young lad, its like us getting rid of whitehead, it just wont happen.

1. Kearney

2. Kear

3. Purtell

4. Lulia

5. Crookes

6. Briggs

7. Gale

8. Kopczak

9. L'estrange

10 . Manuokafoa

11. Elima

12. Whitehea

13. Langley

14. O'Brien

15. Hargreaves

16. Bateman

17. Burgess

18. Scruton

19. Olbison

20. Platt

21. Pryce

22. Ainscough

23. Donaldson

24. Joseph

25. Addy

26. Murphy

27. McAvoy

28. Ball

29. Southernwood

30. New Signing