The Transfer Rumour Mill Thread

[dkw]

1 hour ago, Davo5 said:

Get some Fiery Jack lineament rubbed in,he’ll be reet.

Oh man, horrible stuff. My first ever game for DPR at Wath Brow I had that slapped on, had little effect in the horizontal sleet though....

[Davo5]

2 minutes ago, GUBRATS said:

Depends where you put it ?

Yeah the old fiery Jack in the jockstrap always brought a tear to the eye,& not just from the victim

[GUBRATS]

2 minutes ago, Davo5 said:

Yeah the old fiery Jack in the jockstrap always brought a tear to the eye,& not just from the victim

Foreplay isn't it ?

[The Blues Ox]

5 hours ago, ShropshireBull said:

Should have a point to prove then.

Or laughing that he has not only been paid off but Bradford are paying him as well in what might be his last season as a pro.

[The Blues Ox]

As this is the rumor thread looks like theres a rumor that our intrepid Bradford fanboy reporter has been stealing ideas from the SARL reporter. I really can't do with either and don't like that style of "journalism" but I made for a funny read on Twitter.

[The Phantom Horseman]

3 minutes ago, The Blues Ox said:

As this is the rumor thread looks like theres a rumor that our intrepid Bradford fanboy reporter has been stealing ideas from the SARL reporter. I really can't do with either and don't like that style of "journalism" but I made for a funny read on Twitter.

It's a bit sad too, though isn't it? Until a couple of years ago most big RL transfer news stories were broken in League Express. If you'd said then that they'd quickly become engaged in a race-to-the-bottom with SARL nobody would have believed it.

Trouble is they know the more daft stuff they churn out, the more we're going to talk about it, they know what they're doing (and no I'm not linking to SARL's latest incisive piece, promoted by the tweet "Are Bradford the favourites for SL promotion").

[welshmagpie]

On 06/01/2023 at 13:42, dkw said:

Workingtons new Aussie landed this week, had his first training session in our standard horizontal freezing rain. Then had the standard "rabbit in headlights" first interview on the face book page ha ha.....

That the Ghanaian lad?

[welshmagpie]

A Greek domestic has signed for Tonneins in the French second tier. Great to see 

[dkw]

3 minutes ago, welshmagpie said:

That the Ghanaian lad?

Yeah, Sean Sabutey. Though he has Ghanaian and Irish heritage apparently, aiming for the Irish squad.

[LeytherRob]

10 hours ago, The Phantom Horseman said:

It's a bit sad too, though isn't it? Until a couple of years ago most big RL transfer news stories were broken in League Express. If you'd said then that they'd quickly become engaged in a race-to-the-bottom with SARL nobody would have believed it.

Trouble is they know the more daft stuff they churn out, the more we're going to talk about it, they know what they're doing (and no I'm not linking to SARL's latest incisive piece, promoted by the tweet "Are Bradford the favourites for SL promotion").

League Express and SARL are pretty much one and the same now, they share writing staff. LE hasn't been the same since Shaw, Bower et al all left for Reach

[welshmagpie]

17 hours ago, dkw said:

Yeah, Sean Sabutey. Though he has Ghanaian and Irish heritage apparently, aiming for the Irish squad.

Ghana have a more important year ahead - he needs to focus on them getting past Lebanon, South Africa and Nigeria for World Cup qualification. 
 

His choice though. 

[Snowys Backside]

On 06/01/2023 at 18:22, GUBRATS said:

Depends where you put it ?

You don't half become an expert in 'running on the spot' when placed around your nutsac  

[kiggy]

On 07/01/2023 at 11:37, The Phantom Horseman said:

It's a bit sad too, though isn't it? Until a couple of years ago most big RL transfer news stories were broken in League Express. If you'd said then that they'd quickly become engaged in a race-to-the-bottom with SARL nobody would have believed it.

Seems to me that most transfers are pre-empted by the players' agents via social media

[The Phantom Horseman]

2 minutes ago, kiggy said:

Seems to me that most transfers are pre-empted by the players' agents via social media

A lot are, though to me it seems fewer have been pre-empted in recent months.

At Fev for instance, of the 9 new signings, I think only one was "broken" by the "media". That was Kyle Evans on New Year's Day, when Fev stated on their SM channels at 12.48pm that they would announce a new signing at 2pm, but Mick Gledhill, who runs a weekly podcast with the SMTMUK team (who I think are Evans' agents), broke the news on Twitter at 1.11pm.

Generally though I agree if you mean those signings are pre-empted via journalists, as it seems logical that agents are the source of most of their info.

[sweaty craiq]

Have Leigh signed JWH today?

[The Phantom Horseman]

The rumoured signing of Andrew Bulman for Barrow has been confirmed this morning, 19 days after Whitehaven announced via their Facebook page that he had "asked for a release from his contract as he had fallen out of love with rugby and wanted to pursue opportunities away from the game"

[The Phantom Horseman]

1 hour ago, sweaty craiq said:

Have Leigh signed JWH today?

Hope not, or Halifax might be struggling at the full back position.

[Colin James]

30 minutes ago, The Phantom Horseman said:

The rumoured signing of Andrew Bulman for Barrow has been confirmed this morning, 19 days after Whitehaven announced via their Facebook page that he had "asked for a release from his contract as he had fallen out of love with rugby and wanted to pursue opportunities away from the game"

They put out a statement saying there was problems with paying players. Joining the dots he was probably able to leave after a breach of the terms of the contract (ie not being paid) but they don't want to shout that from the rooftops so came up with the opportunities away from the game story to try and save face.

[The Blues Ox]

3 hours ago, The Phantom Horseman said:

Hope not, or Halifax might be struggling at the full back position.

Yep very disappointing if true.

[Indigogo]

16 minutes ago, The Blues Ox said:

Yep very disappointing if true.

Where's the rumour come from?

[hindsfordleyther79]

5 hours ago, The Phantom Horseman said:

Hope not, or Halifax might be struggling at the full back position.

I don't think the JWH in question is the one that plays at Halifax.....

[Mumby Magic]

Might be a Bulls announcement tonight, Bulls Squad Numbers evening.

[The Phantom Horseman]

2 hours ago, hindsfordleyther79 said:

I don't think the JWH in question is the one that plays at Halifax.....

Just when I thought I'd set this one up beautifully for a SARL "exclusive"...

[LeytherRob]

1 hour ago, The Phantom Horseman said:

Just when I thought I'd set this one up beautifully for a SARL "exclusive"...

Too late, they're copy and pasting Matt Shaws article as we speak...

[Ragingbull]

3 hours ago, Mumby Magic said:

Might be a Bulls announcement tonight, Bulls Squad Numbers evening.

Nothing sadly