Re: Jarrod Sanmut : Sat Dec 05, 2015 9:44 am  

I doubt anyone expects another season without a SH. Jimmy has 6 months (June) to earn a new contract. I am still not sure whether he will get another contract unless we are transformed this year. Mediocre performances like last season will soon have supporters shouting for Smithy to be signed up for October 2016.

Re: Jarrod Sanmut : Sun Dec 06, 2015 5:11 pm  

So we haven't unveiled Sammut today...what a dissapointment....in fact no scrum half.... I'm somewhat worried by this. An earlier post said he'd already signed for Workington...maybe this is the case. If Workington have kept him, well hats off to them, but you have to question why the Bulls have over looked an opportunity to acquire a good quality SH like Jarrod....what now?... I'm still hoping he is a free agent and we may yet sign him....but we appear to be very limited in our options.

[Bulliac]

Re: Jarrod Sanmut : Sun Dec 06, 2015 5:46 pm  

For what it's worth, I think it may be a good business plan to have someone [maybe Sammut?] already signed and ready to announce when the membership sales start flagging a bit.....I also think they seem to have someone who knows a bit about selling at the club these days. Or, to put it another way, I'm not counting anything out yet.

Re: Jarrod Sanmut : Sun Dec 06, 2015 6:47 pm  

Perhaps they're saving a few 'Xmas Presents' for us, I seem to recall Lauaki was revealed around that time last year. Though let's hope it's somebody more effective than Lauaki was for large parts of last season.

Re: Jarrod Sanmut : Sun Dec 06, 2015 6:55 pm  

I think Lauaki was a bit of a panic buy though wasn't he? Offerdahl pulled out and left us scrambling for another prop. I think in an ideal situation the club would have finished most of its transfer dealings before christmas.

Re: Jarrod Sanmut : Sun Dec 06, 2015 7:35 pm  

I like the optimism...yes there is still time to acquire a decent scrum half and as already speculated maybe we have signed someone yet to be revealed. I shall to try and remain positive.

Re: Jarrod Sanmut : Sun Dec 06, 2015 7:57 pm  

Other thing to bear in mind is with sjielka and mullaneys departures we have quota spots available. Maybe a case of we have someone signed and waiting on visa before announcing signing.

That said I still expect Sammut to be in a Bradford shirt next yr.

Re: Jarrod Sanmut : Mon Dec 07, 2015 9:06 am  

What's happened to purtell? He ran the show at our place in the 8's, you will go far better with a Gaskell/purtell half back pairing than Gaskell/Sammut! He goes hiding to much does jarrod.

Re: Jarrod Sanmut : Mon Dec 07, 2015 9:46 am  

I was told last week (same bloke that told me Mullaney wasn't training, which proved correct) that a 7 hasn't been signed yet and that the club were on the lookout for one. I noticed Gledhill also tweeted something recently about the club looking in Australia for a new 7, so that would marry up with what I was told.

To me, it looks like Addy or Purtell are the current option for 7 (probably Addy), and if they can find the right available scrum half, that plan then changes. I personally would rather go with Addy at 7 than blow money on a panic buy like Siejka again, although I appreciate we're screwed as soon as we have an injury or two to Addy, Gaskell or Thomas.

[Bullseye]

Re: Jarrod Sanmut : Mon Dec 07, 2015 12:38 pm  

Addy is nowhere near consistent enough, or quality enough to be one of our regular halfbacks to get us into SL. He may look good at Championship level but he’s not able to string quality performances together versus SL opposition – much like many of his teammates.

Purtell’s one good game at halfback away at Leigh looks increasingly like enough to get him the job fulltime. Mind you’ll he’s still a better option than Siejka.

Gaskell is more important than ever. I hope we do get a halfback in time for the season starting otherwise we’ll be in the same boat as last year.