Canterbury Bulldogs director of football Phil Gould has seemingly given strong indication that Franklin Pele will be released, and that the club won’t sign Connor Watson.
Gould revealed last week on 100% Footy that the Bulldogs had already met with Watson and his management, and were due to have more meetings during the week just gone.
“He is a very good player, and we have spoken to him,” Gould said at the time.
“He is off-contract at the end of the year with the Roosters and it was my mail that he was considering a UK offer. I thought he was too good to be going to the UK at this time.
“I’ve had some conversations with him, I’ve discussed his injury. That’s in the hands of the Roosters at the moment. He is under contract [with] them and they are rehabbing the injury.
“Naturally, if we went forward with some sort of contract talks, we would want some sort of protection that the rehab was done properly and he was right to play next year, but our own medical advice is that he will…