A complete over-haul then?
How many would you let go and who would you target as replacements?
Iirc we have Disko,Bailey,Ali,Senior,Donald,Buderus all OOC at the end of the season all who started the season as 1st choice 17 players who else would you want to release because as i see it that's a big turn around already even if a couple stay.

Not necessarily a complete over haul. Is Diskin really out of contract at the end of the season?

The coach as to work with the contracts he's got. Its' people under contract that are his problem.

Out of those you have to let Donald, Senior and Buderus go. In an ideal world and you were confident of Buderus producing you would give him another year and let Diskin go. But whatever, the first 3 gives us a lot of cap space to play with.

In hindsight though we should have been in a position to let Kirke, Kylie, and possibly Webb go too. I would certainly let Kirke and Kylie go and bring in a quality prop.

I still think this team could be absolute world beaters with a quality half back to partner Danny, whether that is a scrum half or stand off. With the cap space created we could do that, but we have Burrow holding up the position.

I don't think Watkins will be ready for next season, and for the life of me don't want to see Senior for another year, so something needs to be planned there.

AFAIK yeh Disko is out of contract.
I can see yer point re-Kirke and that could still be possible if Manning "steps up" and the hopefull improvement of Ambler and Amor.
It certainly makes it interesting i think Mcshane will cover the loss of Buderus and the Senior situation is one that creates a situation for the coach and club to solve i.e Will they retain him?,Will coady prove he's worth a go? or you could sign someone new also they may consider switching Smith or Delaney.
As for HB i don't know the quality of the acadamy lads in that position but it would be nice to have "cover" but i don't think Burrow is done at all as we discussed earlier on another thread.

Totalloiner said Kirke wasnt good enough about a year ago. I argued he was. He was probably right tbh.

A year ago he was good enough, it's his form this year that has slumped alarmingly but he's not on his own in that regard.

Was he good enough because those around him were carrying him or was he really good enough?

I thought he was good enough but perhaps I was wrong. Unbelievable I know but it sometimes does happen

did kirke ever have a long enough run to look bad without breaking his leg and coming back for the playoffs?

Thought Kirke has made short, but significant, contributions to the last two GF's and been a solid squad player in the past. He's clearly not a starting back rower and looks to be off the pace this year. There are some guys that can lift their game in a champion team but drop a level when a team is playing poorly and not really offer much of a lift. When the team's playing well he seems to fit okay, and as we've seen this year when the team's struggling he struggles more than most.

Let's see what he looks like if we hit some form.

That was always my view.

He's jonny average who has been riding the coat tails of a great team.

The job he does, can be done by a kid. Jesus H, I reckon I could do 4 hit ups in a game.

Is he in the academy?

I think he is, although he's always got his Dad's carpentry firm to fall back on if it doesn't work out.

You're thinking of his step Dad. His real Father makes Damo look like a workaholic. He did 6 days graft ages ago and that's been it since. Lazy sod.

I always think of Kirke as a useful fringe player. I wouldn't play him every week but I think he's useful for rotation without risking a young lad.
Obviously he's out of form at the moment but I think that could be said of many players, and I'd agree that when the team steps up he seems to as well.