Massive difference there, Scott Moore is a terrible player and Lance Hohaia is a world cup winning international, Hull KR sign below average plodders and plenty of them, at that. The reason people single out Hull KR is because of the utter ridiculousness of the overseas signings they make too, Rhys Lovegrove for instance because of some loophole he isn't a quota player etc, that's all KR do is find loopholes and exploit them and that's what makes them the brunt of most jokes.

Most of the overseas players at KR are barely Super League level players and would be easily replaceable by recruiting English players instead (who no doubt would cost less too).



1. There are no "foreigners" in the England team - there are 22 English BORN players, 1 with an English family and one who is legally under the rules of RL British and in 2 years will be seen in the eyes of the law as British.

2. Actually, it's in the franchise criteria you have to produce your own players and reduce the number of overseas players.

Also, KR could put out this team in a game (overseas players in red), Hall, Welham, Webster, Hodgson, Green, Dobson, Newton, Withers, O'Hara, Mika, Paea, Galea

That's 10 overseas players out of 13 players and there's still one more (Lovegrove) for the bench!...that is a disgrace.

That's going back to the days before the RFL amended the rules so as to supposedly avoid this scenario.

Still, you can't blame Hull KR for taking advantage if the rules allow them to. Its up to the RFL to make the rules more robust and stop this fiasco. The rules say 5 Non-fed trained players and that should be the case with NO exemptions...

Well all I can say is that I'm very disappointed at our recruitment drive so far, Griffin and Nash are not going to break any pots and to miss out on Con Mika to Hull KR is very bad, why can we not attract players to Cas? How come Wakey, HKR and Harlequins can, those 3 have certainly signed better than Griffin and Nash, do we think Millward will come back from Oz with anyone decent?

I'd prefer to have your youth filtering through TBH.
My mate at work is a long standing cas fan, I recall him and "all" other cas fans slating TM because you were losing week in and week out.
What he couldn't see was the amount of young players he was blooding, fair enough it was hard work then, but it's stood you in good stead since.
Let's take last season as an example, (although you could use the last few) down at wakey, nowt to play for, team not very good and almost no youth players coming through!!!!
Small clubs such as wakey and cas, need to bring players through as it is our
lifeblood.
Be proud and thankful, i know which scenario I'd prefer!!

If Millward does convince anybody to come to Cas i would be pretty sure its an unknown player desperate for a chance, or somebody who has gone off the rails and nobody down under will touch him.

Think the bottom line is we are skint for 2012 and will only have more to spend when we finally wave bye bye to the financial drain that is Mcgoldrick & Hudson and at the end of next season we have more money to play around with.

Our 1st choice 17 would give anybody a game but its when injuries and suspensions kick in that i will panic.

Hope the coach can work some magic and that the strength and conditioning guy can do a great job too with the squad

mr millward may persuade mark gasnier to come out of retirement for a season or two.

Jodie Broughton a cas player now? www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/s ... _1_3871613 Hardaker and clubmate Chris Clarkson are both in the England Knights squad, along with Castleford Tigers’ Jodie Broughton.

Jodie Broughton a cas player now? www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/s ... _1_3871613 Hardaker and clubmate Chris Clarkson are both in the England Knights squad, along with Castleford Tigers’ Jodie Broughton.

There is a bit of a rumour that Lee Smith could be going to Wakey, does anyone think that he could a job for us in the centre.

i'm a lee smith fan and i would love him to stay at the rhinos,but if he has no future at our club and for whatever reason?
then i do hope that he moves to a club that will allow him to ply his trade each week wherever that may be

I'm not a big fan of Lee Smith at all - Just not sure why....

rumour on the new assistant coach ex-salford captain Malcolm Alker. Link: menmedia.co.uk/manchesterevening ... eague-club

rumour on the new assistant coach ex-salford captain Malcolm Alker. Link: menmedia.co.uk/manchesterevening ... eague-club

Latest (OOC + Released) List:

Bradford Bulls (Released) - Gareth Raynor, Marc Herbert.

Castleford Tigers (Released) - Martin Aspinwall.

Catalan Dragons (OOC) - Cyril Stacul, Sebastian Raguin, Tony Gigot.

Crusaders RL (Released) - Andy Bracek, Ben Flower (Huddersfield/Wigan), Gil Dudson (Wigan), Peter Lupton, Lee Williams, Jamie Murphy, Jordan Tansey, Gareth Thomas.

Harlequins RL (Released) - Danny Ward, Dave Williams, Mark Calderwood.

Huddersfield Giants (Released) - Gregg McNally.

Hull Kingston Rovers (OOC) - Dave Petersen.
Hull Kingston Rovers (Released) - Ben Fisher.

Hull FC (Released) - Epalahame Luaki (Wigan), Ewan Dowes (Wakefield), Sam Obst (Wakefield), Cameron Phelps, Mike Burnett, Martin Gleeson.

Leeds Rhinos (Released) - Keith Senior, Michael Coady, Rory Kettlewell.

Salford City Reds (Released) - Rob Parker.

Wakefield Wildcats (OOC) - Kevin Henderson, Jeremy Smith, Semi Tadulula (Castleford Tigers).

Warrington Wolves (OOC) - Lee Mitchell, Tyrone McCarthy.

Wigan Warriors (Released) - Karl Pryce.

Any update as to rumoured clubs for Martin Aspinwall at all?

To be honest I would have kept Aspinwall - we need squad players and he went ok when he played

Also Rob Parker did a decent job where needed - I'd give him a 1 year contract