A few teams have these but we don't so I thought I'd start one

Couple I've heard round & about:

Andy Lynch from Bradford
Paul Sykes from Bradford
Bob Beswick from Halifax
Sika Manu from Melbourne

And out:

Sione Faumuina - Huddersfield

wouldnt mind beswick or lynch...

dont really want sykes weve got two quality centres already as for manu ive never really seen him play

id rather us keep faumuina.. he just needs to stop trying so hard!! and do his job

They would all be good for us!!!

I think sione will come good for us tho when it gets a bit warmer

Can't say I've seen Sika Manu too many times but from what I've seen he would be a very good player, and he's a NZ international too so he can't be that bad.

Another I heard a while back that I forgot about is Michael Knowles to come back at the end of the season, he would be an improvement over Clayton, who's out of contract I believe?

Does anyone know all the Cas players who come off contract at the end of this season, the ones I can think of are: Faumuina, Evans, Higgins and Clayton.

Dixon, Evans, Wainwright, Clayton, Jones, Higgins, Feather, Boyle, Massey, Netherton, Ford, Faumuina, Cording according to Castigers.net

IMO We need to keep Dixon, Wainwright, Jones, Higgins, Feather, Boyle, Netherton and Ford possibly.

The rest I'm unsure about or certain that I want to be released. Evans counts on thte quota so it's whether we could find someone better than him at centre.

Remember our overseas numbers will need to be reduced as well.

The current limit of 8 is reduced to 6. We have 7 so going on OOC players, we could only retain one of Evans and Faumuina.

So if Evans and Faumuina stay, someone else will have to make way. If one of them stays we can't bring another in.

However, given most SL teams will be having to lose 2, we're arguably in a better position than others in this respect.

Also on the OOC players, I would hope for an announcement soon on TM's future. He is also OOC at the end of this season so I expect we'll soon announce his retention and then start work on retaining the players he wants.

I hope and think TM will stay on. He's seen the rough times down here and now the good times are in sight I think he'll want to finish the job he's started.

He better bloody stay.

Can't see us getting rid of evans he has been very good for us.

We need to keep Dixon,Jones,Feather,Boyle,Netherton and Ford but i think we could better than Higgins and Wainwright: dont get me wrong they are decent players but that's all they are decent and if we wanna get up there with the best of them we need to strenghten our squad when possible so keeping these two in my eyes would be making do.

For me id like to see Dixon, Evens, Jones, Higgins, Feather, Boyle, Massey, Neatherton and Ford all stay. I would have added Sione to that but with the overseas quota coming down id pick Evens over him so far.

Everyone seems to be signing players for next year already, i would of thought (hope) we would be looking at players for next season at the moment

Sika Manu would be nice

There could be another relaxation of the rules for players who've been here for a number of years as has happened in the past? I reckon Evans may be a case in point and that along with his Welsh nationality.

I reckon there may already be moves afoot to bend the rules once again, also got to hope negotiations are ongoing to re-sign the majority of players out of contract at the end of the season, plus another 3 or 4 to get our squad depth up to where it should be.