Horrible news if true but can't blame Manning if so.

We've really set the club a long way back by failing to make the top 4 last season.

Quote: thefaxfanman "Where've people heard this Manning news from? Would be gutted if it's true'" Time to be gutted I missed afraid. www.totalrl.com/batley-make-doub ... r-manning/

Quote: thefaxfanman "Where've people heard this Manning news from? Would be gutted if it's true'" Time to be gutted I missed afraid. www.totalrl.com/batley-make-doub ... r-manning/

1 Salty
2 Worrincy
3 Heaton
4 Tyrer
5 Sharp
6 Murrell
7 Moore
8 Calahane
9 Kaye
10 Tangata
11 Grady
12 Grix
13 Fairbank

14 Jonno
15 Ambler
16 Boyle
17 Haggerty

Put Barber on bench instead of Haggerty as he's not coming now and we are only Connor plus kids left..

Hate to say it but I would do a fev and take the dual reg with a top sl team go for top 4 and ssort the cash flow issues

I agree, I think we need dual reg now. Saying that though anyone who looks at our first choice squads and thinks we will be in a relegation struggle is having a laugh. We will compete for the top 4 once again. Good use of a dual reg agreement could put us back in that top 4 in a similar way that Fev made it last year.

Who are we going to DR with??

Not a fan of DR but I see both Fev and Batley, who finished with more money than us last year, have linked up again with Leeds and Cas respectively, so whether we like it or not we may have to at least consider it with a much smaller squad, more full time teams, and a real risk of injury and having to throw our kids in if that happens.
Maybe the answer to your question PB is Hull FC? Rawsthorne just gone there and we now have a tenuous link?

Those are my thoughts, I'm afraid that we have accept the inevitable, much as I do not either like or agree with it, that we have to use DR, we don't have the money or squad size and we are no longer even a big club in this division. It is getting to the stage where another poor season could signal the end of the club so we need to take drastic actions.

I think Hull are sticking with just Doncaster. Given that the top teams, Wigan, Saints, Hull and possibly Warrington are already taken, the lower teams I feel do not have much quality outside their main squads other than Leeds but even they are in a transitional period, it does not leave that much choice although I can think of one recently promoted team that I think a DR system could be perfect for us.

I would take leigh they uave enough proven champiomship quaility who wont get much game time. Who will be looking to leave when contracts expire. So will be beneficial to us and them

I happen to like the DR system,and at Hooker alone we have 4 very good players in Higham, Pelissier,Hood, and Foster, in the pack we have a fair few players to pick from, unless we get injuries I can't see Ben Reynolds being in the first 17, yet he is a very good leader at Championship level, I'm sure RM has a good relationship and contacts at Leigh, being a former Leigh player , so it could benefit both Clubs, remember if you don't ask, you don't get.

Good grief! Get me a beer!