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Great. Bradford's answer to the problem of our international uncompetitiveness is to bring in a 31 year-old halfback on a 3 year contract which will make him almost certainly the best paid player at the club, while letting Sam Burgess go to Oz. I wonder if Burgess was asking more than quarter of a million per year ?



Orford says : "I always wanted to finish my career in England", and that sums up pretty much everything that's wrong with this signing, and signings like it.

So its down to us, and us only, to sort out our international competitiveness. We have produced Sam Burgess, who is one fo the best players England has got, he wanted to go, he wasn't pushed, and he will be a better player for it.



Orford will still be one of the best SH's in the league, and will complement some of the young, english players we've got coming through in Whitehead, Crookes, Donaldson, Olbison, Crossley, Tate & Hyde, whilst we look forward to seeing our younger English players who have already established themselves in Halley, Kopzcak, Worrincy and Sheriffe.

Could Bradford have signed a young British scrum half who was anywhere near as good as Orford? Do they have a young scrum half at the club who Orford will keep out of the team and who would have been a first team regular otherwise?



If the answer to both of these questions is 'no', then I don't see a problem with the signing. And, if anything, Sam Burgess going to Oz will increase our international competitiveness.

his nickname is the '' OX ''

Great player no doubt. But thats near enough 1/5 of their salary cap on one player.

Exactly.



The whole "signing Aussies will ruin our game" argument is complete and utter rubbish and I wish people would stop complaining about EVERY overseas signing and stating this reason, it's complete and utter rubbish.

crap signing

Bad signing imo.



Orford isn’t all he’s cracked up to be imo. He’s won the Daily M award a season back but other than that what else really has he done? Has he set the world alight playing for the green and golds? What about his origin performances over the years as well? What about his performances last season?



I’m not saying he aint gonna be a good SL half back but the wages he’s on are laughable imo. Putting all this cash into one 31 year old player is NEVER going to get Bradford back to where they once were sadly.



It seems they are going down the road my club was on a few seasons ago by looking to Aus to solve all their problems and it just won’t work.



Although not as good as a player they should imo have gone for Brough and built a team around him instead.

£840k for 3 years



aaaaahahahahahahahaha

Loads of players on that sort contract good signing for the bull but poor for English rugby.

Really? Like who?

Buderus

Barrett was aswell

Matt King

Stuart Fielden