It all sounds to be getting dodgy to me. Peteru frees up 0.5 an overseas player? Jesus.

Heres a genuine question. We was over the cap in 2018 by £55k. We added Hurrell and Merrin at £175k each on the cap plus signed Luke Briscoe on peanuts probably admittedly. We upgraded contracts thru the year such as Handley, Newman and Dwyer and also added Ava, Martin, Lui etc to the mix in 2019. Where did we make savings to be under the cap in 2019? I would anticipate there is £650k minimum to save. Im not sure it adds up to me.

The cap and player contracts are way more complicated than adding and subtracting their salaries, that's why the Director of rugby role will become the norm, managing the cap is a full time job in itself.

Its not the NFL Charlie. It cant be that complicated to warrant a full time role. I agree that the contract situation will become more intricate in the future to fit players under the cap 1 year to allow them to earn more another but it pretty much is as simple as adding their salaries from what i can see.

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Ryan Hall, 120k.
Joel Moon 100k
Keith Galloway 120k
Kallum Watkins 150k
Brett Delaney 65k
Anthony Mullally 40k
Mitch Garbutt 90k
Jimmy Keinhorst 40k
Jordan Lilley 30k

Plus the cap has gone up by 100k a year each year since 2017.

Looks do-able. Not sure we gave Dwyer an increase rather than just an extension. He was struggling to get in the side in 18.

I would say those figures look fairly accurate Ghost tbh and they would balance out if not. Cheers.

Wasn't Hall on the cap in 2018? What about Watkins too?

Just about perhaps. The LMS suggestion wasn't a serious proposition, just a means of highlighting the sheer ordinariness of Amor. I'm genuinely surprised you rate him.

Well I'm sure there will be more speculation in tomorrow's League Express

Would be very underwhelmed with Amor. Would rather keep Singo to be honest. He looked the real deal back end 2017. Think just suffered along with the rest of the team. No forward looks good when they never get a rest, as we’ve had no last tackle plays .......

Singleton, Albert and Ferres on the outer according to the papers.

The Ablett deal was only ever philanthropy, and Singleton and Ferres must be £200k of cap between them. We can and must do much better.

Ferres will be on more than £100k

Ferres to Featherstone ,hope it's not duel reg

That’ll be 14 players left since November 2018. Go back a year too and 23 players since 2017. Huge turnaround.

2018 - Hall, Moon, Delaney, Garbutt, Keinhorst, Galloway, Lilley, Jordan-Roberts, Aston.
2019 - Watkins, Lolohea, Parcell, Singleton, Ablett, Ferres, Peteru, JJB, Golding, Mullally, Ormondroyd, Walters, Albert, Lunt.

I doubt it will be as much as £200k.