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Dakink
05-04-06, 11:00 AM
from foxsports


Storm seeks Bulgarelli back-up
By Steve Ricketts
April 5, 2006

MELBOURNE has made a bid for former Canberra centre Jason Bulgarelli, who signed last month with Queensland Wizard Cup club Easts.

Easts are willing to dual register Bulgarelli with Storm, but the club is reluctant to release him if it means he will play for Queensland Cup rival Norths, Melbourne's feeder club.

Easts chief executive Darren Smith said yesterday he did not want to stand in the way of Bulgarelli's return to the NRL but the club also did not relish the idea of having the 29 year old as an opponent after negotiating a deal for 2006.

"We are waiting for Jason to get back to us," Smith said. "He only signed here a week ago and it was intended he would play his first match this month after he worked on his fitness.

"We have a lot of injuries in the club and he will come in handy."

A product of the Burdekin club in North Queensland, Bulgarelli played for Illawarra Steelers in the mid-1990s and represented Italy in the 2000 Emerging Nations World Cup.

But he had to wait until May, 2003 to make his NRL debut for Canberra after signing from Easts.

The Raiders sacked him late in 2004 when he was charged with drug offences.

Last year he played in country New South Wales, earning peanuts compared with his $120,000-a-year deal at the Raiders.

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Bulgarelli would come in handy for the Storm at State of Origin time if the club loses centres Matt King to NSW and Greg Inglis to Queensland, as is expected.

Melbourne has a bye this weekend but Inglis could switch to fullback - with Billy Slater facing a long ban for a kicking chargew - with Matt Geyer, Chris Walker and Jake Webster contenders for the centre spot.

Steve Turner, who played wing for the Storm last Sunday, is another fullback prospect.

The Courier-Mail

Either very astute from Bellamy or very dumb....

DeeGan
05-04-06, 11:12 AM
Geez - Bellamy cannot be concerned with depth surely?

At this point it seems a rather odd move though it is hard to question Craig Bellamy who is an astute league judge - there will be some interested Canberra fans looking at his one I guess :D

Super Cronk
05-04-06, 11:13 AM
*sigh*

Very dissapointed....first we get Walker and now we are after the worst rugby league player in the world. We have tons of players in reserve grades that are better then bulgarelli, hell even im better the "boogas" ill play for $10 a game!

Social Loafer
05-04-06, 02:19 PM
Just imagine on one side having Geyer and Inglis and the other having Boogs and Walker :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

Would be hilarious to see him line up againts the Raiders at Bruce :rotflmao:

The Original Idiot
05-04-06, 03:46 PM
The Storm have backs coming out of their ears. They don't really have any need for Bulgarelli.

Super Cronk
06-04-06, 08:11 AM
MELBOURNE has distanced itself from reports linking it to former Canberra Raiders centre Jason Bulgarelli.

Bulgarelli, who was sacked from the Raiders in 2004 when he was charged with drug offences, is playing for Easts in the Queensland Cup.

"No there isn't any interest there," Storm recruitment manager Peter O'Sullivan said.

"It (centre) is an area we are a bit stretched, but, at the moment, we are more inclined to give some of our kids a chance."

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,18724840%255E14823,00.html

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