Good signing and much needed size. Can he be recalled from his loan deal?

My Batley contact was not as enthusiastic about our new signing, in his opinion he did not create the havoc his size would suggest.He's from the right placeand will be open to improvement.

My understanding is that the club has exceeded £40k from season tickets sales already. They are well ahead of last year on numbers sold (around 70) up, but overall the revenue from the sales is down - circa £8k - due to the tickets being cheaper

However - whereas in the past the club may have been guilty of 'giving' away revenue to entice season ticket sales, this year a more sensible approach has been to exclude the 8's games at the end of the season, and the Summer Bash. Given that the club gets to keep its share of the Summer Bash sales, and that the end of season games are all pay they should more than recoup the £8k, and get a cash boost at the end of the season instead of it all being front loaded.

I can't recall seeing Maher play so will have to wait and see. 6ft 5 and 18 st plus Harry Kidd and you have the size to compete.

Still think it will come down to the half back role. It's not necessarily the player but as England are finding out its how that players style links and promotes others around them. That's what we have been searching for some time , the right combination. We will know it when we see it in action !
All I would say to RM is try a change as early as you can and don't dither if you think it's right for the team.

The main potential problem with not including the 8's in the season ticket is if we don't make the top 4. All pay, but the attendances will be awful if we're in the bottom 8's.

Yes you are right HxSparky I wouldn't have bothered turning up to Hx v Sheffield for the hub cap cup play off if I had been paying .

But I can see the rationale for the decision trying to get some money to cover the close season.

Top 4 is crucial.in fact it's too crucial .

No.Proper season long loan like Brandon Douglas last year,partly financed by Howard Posner,interestingly.

We should have confidence in our boys reaching the top 4. over the past 11 seasons we have only been out of the top for twice. I think that has been fairly good consistency for 11 seasons considering some of the problems that have happened
2007 - 3rd
2008 - 3rd
2009 - 2nd
2010 - 2nd
2011 - 6th
2012 - 3rd
2013 - 3rd
2014 - 3rd
2015 - 4th
2016 - 6th
2017 - 3rd.

Up the Fax !!!

We are vying with London/Toulouse/Fev for 3rd/4th place.To finish above 2 of them is the biggest ask yet forget the last 11 years.
Up the Fax !

Quote: mr t hall "No.Proper season long loan like Brandon Douglas last year,partly financed by Howard Posner,interestingly.'" You might want to check out the Castleford website... https://www.castlefordtigers.com/article.php?id=5723 " Tigers prop Will Maher has joined Halifax RLFC on a season long loan. The 22-year old will spend the full season with Castleford’s dual registration partners with the Tigers holding a call back clause." There was a similar clause last season when he was supposedly on a season-long loan at Batley, and there was a lot of moaning on the Batley forum on more than one occasion as a result.

Quote: mr t hall "No.Proper season long loan like Brandon Douglas last year,partly financed by Howard Posner,interestingly.'" You might want to check out the Castleford website... https://www.castlefordtigers.com/article.php?id=5723 " Tigers prop Will Maher has joined Halifax RLFC on a season long loan. The 22-year old will spend the full season with Castleford’s dual registration partners with the Tigers holding a call back clause." There was a similar clause last season when he was supposedly on a season-long loan at Batley, and there was a lot of moaning on the Batley forum on more than one occasion as a result.

That's interesting..Marshall was quoted as saying it was under the same arrangement as Brandon Douglas
loan last season and that had no callback clause.An early indication of the potential pitfalls of a DR agreement.This clause probably explains why the deal nearly fell through at the last minute and the courier pulled their report 24 hours.

All loans will have a call back clause, they would be mad not to.

Mad or not, loan players must be there for 28 days.

Them's the rules.

It's madness not to include the eights. You know you're going to get three or four games. Sell your season tickets when expectations are highest. In January.