Next season, if we fail to resign several players.

This would make me $hit myself if I saw it in League express.



Bradford Out:

Semi Tadulala
Ben Jeffries
Terry Newton
Andy Lynch
Morrison (Retire)
Menzies(Retire)
Matt Cook
Dave Halley
Matt James
David Solomona




Obviously, a lot will resign, and also some I wouldn't be sad to see leave. But the amount that are only contracted till 2009 is worrying.

Isn't McNamara also out of contract at the end of the season?

Lynch, maybe Cook and Halley are the only ones that Bradford need to hang on to. Unfortunately the rest will probably be too old or perhaps not up to it (pending appropriate replacements being found).

Too old: Tadulala, Newton, Morrison, Menzies, Solomona
Not good enough (?): Jeffries, ?Solomona, ?James - how long has he been on the edge of the first team?

What's most worrying is that Deacon is not on that list.

Definitely re-sign Morrison.

Agreed. Regardless of age, he still puts more effort in that any other player and is always one of the best 3 players on the field for us. I don't care if he's 75, if he plays like that.

Semi Tadulala Unless he starts getting better service he's not going to produce another 20+ tries a season
Ben Jeffries If we'd managed to get Bird, would probably have been relegated to back-up and maybe unlikely to sign a new deal.
Terry Newton Maybe injured this season. Could still do a job but could do without the pies
Andy Lynch The rock our pack is built on. Losing him would be a serious blow
Morrison (Retire) He doesn't quite seem the player he was last year, possibly sick of having to carry some of team's dead weight
Menzies(Retire) Yet to sparkle on the field. Perhaps a role on the coaching staff
Matt Cook seems to have matured over the last season or so. More willing to put in the graft and fight for his spot
Dave Halley his face doesn't seem to fit under mcnamara, unless he gets more game time he's likely to walk
Matt James Alot depends on his performances at fax. Would expect perhaps a year extention
David Solomona Our X-Lax, i'm sorry, x-factor player moments of genius followed by moments of moronic folly. If he could drop the extra weight would probably able to take his game to the next level

There's a lot of contracts up so could be a lot of upheaval if many are alloweed to leave. On the bright side it means that most should be trying hard to justify a SL contract whether with us or elsewhere.

I too would keep Morrison if he was still producing the goods, age is just a number.

So when is this likely to happen then??

Sounds like rebuilding is going to be the excuse for longer than I imagined.

When you get a decent coach, with some of those players....not a bad problem. There are some better out there, probably for cheaper, so it would open up some space on your salary cap.