The club never had any spare cap space the Bird deal was all dependant on Solomona being released.

I assume you actually mean Tupou?

You cant release a player and not expect to pay him, if he walked into another side and got a pay rise fair enough he might agree to being released from his contract without payment, but you cant just so bye bye no more money for you.

Nope Solomona.

You can if you trying to do him for breach of discipline.

Thats sacking them not releasing from contract, you cant sack someone for being overweight/unfit.

TBH it's the same thing realy they are still being released from their contract. Plus you can terminate a contract for being overweight and unfit it falls under the performance clause in the contract.

To be fair when he was on the pitch he was performing, unlike a load that are fit but aren`t.

I'm a big of Morrison but unfortunately he hasn't played enough. He will be on a decent wage up there too. With Morro, Newton and Cook going it does free up a fair bit of salary space.

The signing of Hall is a start, a good solid player who does plenty of work. L'Estrange would be a good replacement for Newton. The big area of recruitment next year has to be a top quality half and a game winning centre.

Plus I'd like more game time for the kids that are coming through. I don't want us to be signing any 'randoms' just to make the squad up, I'd rather give one of the kids a go.

I agree with that 100%. And I'd add that the rest of this season needs to include more game time for any reserve/academy players we think might be 1st teamers next season. We're not going to win anything this year (including two or three games on the spin) so we might as well use some of these remaining games to test out some ideas for next season when its appropriate. (IE play two prospects and give them 40 min each a game or similar but dont throw too many in the deep end at once.)

On the recruitment I've said before and I'll say again that IMHO the success or failure of our recruitment this off season starts and ends with 6/7/9. Get this wrong and we can forget next year.

Still no blog. I think the club may have told him to look elsewhere for another contract. I hope not, if fit, Morro would be exactly who we need on the pitch.