I was under the impression we were full up to the cap.

So he's not trying now because we don't have two big props on the field?

By my information, we are comfortably under the cap and have been for 3 years. So much so that we could sign a couple of players and fit them in this season.

Even you aren't so stupid as to believe we can play without proper props and not makeweights. we have only one true prop in the club, and he's as much use as a chocolate fireguard. As I said, with [size2 BIG PROPS[/size he would look a lot better player in the second row.

Why aren't we in for soward then?

He's a halfback and looking for a loan spell until the end of the season. We could de-register Perry and sorted.

I know a couple of people, but none belong to the witches coven at the head of the club. You talk sense, so it probably hasn't occurred to them.

With soward on board and playing well it could really put us in with a shout this year. He's a top class player.

I might be imagining this but didn't the RFL say they wouldn't allow this after the willie mason incident? and wouldn't it be illegal to do that to perry with out he's permission? employment laws and all that...

I'm not 100% sure but I think you can de-register players but then you can re-register them again this year.

I don't see how it would effect the employment laws as he'd still be getting paid by saints.

I think i read on another article similar to this situation that you would be denying a player the chance to play by deregistering him, I am probably wrong. But who knows maybe perry would be happy to sit out the rest of the year and still get full pay.

You can de-register a player but you can't then re-register him in the same season without special permission from the rfl. De-registering an overseas player frees up a quota spot but does not create any space under the salary cap.

A club can deregister a player but cannot reregister them in the same season.

If that's the case, bye bye Josh. Of course, it will be Warrington or Leeds that sign Soward.

This stinks. I try and be positive. I try and beleive the lads in power know what they're doing, but for McManus to make a staement about like he did and then turn around an resign Laffranchi is a complete contradiction.

Laffranchi is essentially an expensive, less effective version of Paul Clough. He occasionally gets a decent offload, occasionally makes a big hit and scores the odd try with that switch close to the line that only he does with roby, but in the meantime gives us absolutely no go forward and no level of general aggression.

Very disappointing if true, we've got lots of younger home grown lads who are much, much better