What I found bizarre and worrying is that he as an option for an extra year.

Hopefully it is not a one way option i.e. it can only be exercised if both parties agree

Thompson is simptimatic of where the club is in terms of recruitment - he should be nowhere near a top club.

Utter disgrace if he is even being considered for another contract.

Against Salford we gave away 8 set restarts and we got 3.
Don’t know who gave them away.
We also lost possession twice by not playing the ball properly, 1 each for Tetevano and Thompson. Plus both got sin binned although thought Thomason’s was harsh.
The collective impact of those 12 pieces of indiscipline lost us the game and the coach his job. Not saying we need Brian McD back but he would have sat down with both and explained how they are letting down their teammates and asking how they intend to make up for it.
Time both gave it some thought.

You’ve Got it. Get B Mac back !

Not quite what I said Shabba, but you never know 50/1 bet

Regarding quality,I just dont think our salary cap can compete with NRL so we are getting the ones that are surplus to requirements.

I also think home grown talent isn't good enough to stretch to 12 teams and there seems to be a struggle getting the u18s to advance into first team.

Tet is an interesting one. He's the big aggressive prop we needed when we signed him. It's kind of unfortunate that the game has moved to outlaw a lot of the elements of the game where he played on the edge. He now looks like a liability because the game has moved on, and we haven't been able to train it out of him.

Still a decent player IMO

High and late tackles have always been outlawed. Hes just dumb especially when cameras are on him.

Park the stadium to one side for a moment. The senior squad and overall club coaching situation is as bad now as it was in 1996 when GH and Paul Caddick took over. We have a good group of young kids coming through, but our senior players and coaches are so far away from what is required to support and develop those kids we risk wasting their talent.

The club need to come out and be honest with the fans about where we are at and how we plan to move forwards, otherwise they will lose interest and it actually gets worse from here…

Club strikes me as a bit greedy and short sighted. I’m appalled to hear about the lack of support for our junior and reserve grades. And to hear that the kids who played at halftime had to pay entrance fee……what!
I can accept any defeat, but want to see things run a bit better for the foundation, and for fans…..

Really? I'll be honest, I don't look at the stats much. But daft bans aside, he seems to run the ball in quite fast four or five times a game. I'd say hard if he made a few more metres following contact. Maybe overly subjective on my part but he's rarely a dominant figure

I think too much as been spent on upgrading the ground and not on good players

But the club probably hasn't spent as much on players salaries in its history as this season. The board spent relatively big because they saw it as an opportunity given other clubs might be cutting their cloth carefully after Covid and lower tv money.

It's the quality of what that playing group is producing that's the issue. And whether they just aren't as good as had been thought/as they're being paid or if it's a performance issue which could perhaps be addressed. I'm sure it's a bit of both in reality.