Re: Transfer Talk V5 : Tue Nov 19, 2024 11:52 am  

JG280738 wrote:

Terrell May has signed for Wests that means they need to shift Bateman

Manly can’t take Bateman as don’t have space on the cap - not sure who mentioned we might be in for Bateman a while ago but does feel like that info could play out to be correct

Rumoured to Hull too - but I cannot see him staying in the UK, with his Mrs being in Australia

Re: Transfer Talk V5 : Tue Nov 19, 2024 12:14 pm  

Depends on if he can get another club in Aus. He's on a big salary and although Wests are willing to pay a chunk of it for a superleague club I doubt they will be as keen to do so for another NRL team. I suppose its down to what level he wants to play at and balancing that against his family life in the short term. He might just take the money for the next 2 years and go to the beach!

Re: Transfer Talk V5 : Tue Nov 19, 2024 5:06 pm  

Bateman’s career has been a bit of a mess in recent years. He’s looked poor for Wests and was at best OK at Wigan, that is probably generous considering the coin he was on.

A friend of mine who used to be at Bradford and played with Sam Burgess thought he would go back to Wire and Leeds had no chance.

Brisbane also rumoured.

I did notice though that Bentley was training in a top with 18 on the back , so maybe …., who knows

Re: Transfer Talk V5 : Wed Nov 20, 2024 4:03 pm  

Are you sure that wasn't his initials JB?

Re: Transfer Talk V5 : Wed Nov 20, 2024 7:06 pm  

Salford are skint again, apparently. They need to find 500k from somewhere.

I wonder if we'll put a bid in for someone like Watkins

Re: Transfer Talk V5 : Wed Nov 20, 2024 7:36 pm  

Vic Mackie wrote:

Are you sure that wasn't his initials JB?

I may be 90% cabbaged Vic, but hopefully can still distinguish between letters and numbers.
On rhinos site, scroll down the news until the article on Langley, Bentley on there ,

Re: Transfer Talk V5 : Wed Nov 20, 2024 7:38 pm  

Jack Burton wrote:

Salford are skint again, apparently. They need to find 500k from somewhere.

I wonder if we'll put a bid in for someone like Watkins

I’d love to see Kallum come back.

Re: Transfer Talk V5 : Wed Nov 20, 2024 7:55 pm  

They've beaten the odds in what they've achieved on the field and credit to Salford there but how can they be a viable club financially when they rely so heavily on supporter donations and selling their assets and are still in trouble.

Re: Transfer Talk V5 : Wed Nov 20, 2024 8:35 pm  

Seth wrote:

They've beaten the odds in what they've achieved on the field and credit to Salford there but how can they be a viable club financially when they rely so heavily on supporter donations and selling their assets and are still in trouble.

Really feel for their supporters who may not be great in terms of numbers, but certainly are in the terms of the backing they give their club. This seems to be a yearly occurrence and you wonder how long the other clubs will think it is tenable. On a practical and selfish note I'm not sure we'd have the cap space to land Watkins should he even be amenable to such a move.

Re: Transfer Talk V5 : Wed Nov 20, 2024 9:21 pm  

Seth wrote:

They've beaten the odds in what they've achieved on the field and credit to Salford there but how can they be a viable club financially when they rely so heavily on supporter donations and selling their assets and are still in trouble.

None of the teams in the league are financially viable.
Salford's problem is they don't have anyone able to plug the gap.