Statement by Bradford Bulls

Following the announcement by the Rugby Football League that Iestyn Harris has been registered as a player with the Bradford Bulls, the Chairman of the Bulls, Chris Caisley said "We are grateful to the Rugby Football League for arriving at a speedy acceptance of Iestyn's registration. Whilst it was blindingly obvious that Iestyn is a contracted Bulls player there was a lot of misinformation being disseminated to the RFL and the media which clouded one very simple question, namely, which club had Iestyn signed a rugby league contract with? The truth is that, despite misleading statements to the contrary, there was only ever one such contract signed and registered with the RFL and that is the one we registered with them yesterday."

Caisley added, "As far as we are concerned that aspect of the matter is closed, although we are looking into the very serious associated matter of the defamatory comments made of our club yesterday by the Chief Executive of the Leeds Rugby League Club."