Precisely. It's the main area of strength in the squad.

you seem well in the know, please do feel free to enlighten us with your knowledge!

agreed, theres no doubt bird is a decent player but I feel we have good players playing in the positions he covers allready

9 month contract signed, according to today's [url=http://www.lindependant.com/articles/2009/02/27/20090227-Sports-Greg-Bird-est-bien-a-Perpignan.php5paper[/url.



Very disappointing news.

quite apart from anything else, he isn't even [ineeded[/i

indeed.

I'd hoped that the dirty [iquinzistes[/i might have priced us out of the market. Unreliable swines.

This will guarantee negative publicity in the papers this weekend. Mind, any publicity would be nice, you wouldn't know there's an SL round going on this weekend reading today's bloody papers.

Sorry can't read French is the paper report saying Bird has signed for you ??

Yes. 9-month contract

Likelihood of Hetherington making a barbed comment or two about the signing: 0.03%

Not read it yet, but can we pettition the french embassy to reject his visa application?

Any chance we could sell him to another SL club within 24 hours?

Guash reckons that Bird is one of the top 5 players in the NRL. Waiting to be registered with the SL, he won't play against Hull, has asked to play with UTC but has been given some time off instead, in preparation for playing against Cas ...



Je ne suis pas contemp du tout!

i told you so

He's wrong. Not even in the top five back row forwards.

Well, since no side in the NRL will touch him I don't think we could call him a top NRL player...



The spin is that he is getting away from the Antipodean papparazi.

I thought it was spelled 'judiciary'

You need to realise that he is one of the five biggest stars in the NRL. The pressure in Australia is enormous and he wants to get away from the papparazi. He's only 25 and in the meantime he has signed a 9 month contract with us.



The only worry is that he might actually believe what he's saying.

Yet to be approved by the RFL, so there's hope yet

Failing that he may well get incarcarated, which would take him off our books. Hope we have a clause for that in the contract.

Quote belgianxiii="belgianxiii"Well, since no side in the NRL will touch him I don't think we could call him a top NRL player... The spin is that he is getting away from the Antipodean papparazi.'" no . most nrl teams were lining up too sign him . but sharks and nrl said no .its not fair that the sharks have another nrl team have him so they dereg him www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/c ... 15,00.html

Quote belgianxiii="belgianxiii"Well, since no side in the NRL will touch him I don't think we could call him a top NRL player... The spin is that he is getting away from the Antipodean papparazi.'" no . most nrl teams were lining up too sign him . but sharks and nrl said no .its not fair that the sharks have another nrl team have him so they dereg him www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/c ... 15,00.html

Quote fredie="fredie"no . most nrl teams were lining up too sign him . but sharks and nrl said no .its not fair that the sharks have another nrl team have him so they dereg him www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/c ... 15,00.html'" WTF are you going on about??

Quote fredie="fredie"no . most nrl teams were lining up too sign him . but sharks and nrl said no .its not fair that the sharks have another nrl team have him so they dereg him www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/c ... 15,00.html'" WTF are you going on about??

he cannot play nrl this year

He is right you idiot. He's been banned from playing NRL this year. You don't think clubs would have being queuing up to sign him if he hadnt!



Also, since when was he a "backrow forward". He hasn't played second-row for a fair amount of time. I think he would be classed as a stand-off/ball playing loose forward. Carlaw usually starts at 13 anyway and he isn't a loose forward so I think its a good signing. The more quality and ability in a side, the better.

wasn't the intention of the club and superleague to reduce the number of imports/australian cast-offs! RL is meant to be family orientated and his actions were not exactly that!



all that is going to happen is young french player reduced to playing Elite 1 with UTC all because Bird was available! so what if he was available? the club doesn't need him and it goes against everything that has been coming out of the club for the last few years



the more foreigners in any superleague team the worse for England/GB or France, I trust you were suitably embarrassed by the showing of the northern hemisphere countries in the World Cup, I was.