He could come here and play for a few weeks....an improvement surely.

Scott Naylor would stiffen up our defence on the fringes.

What else was said?

I was told we are looking at bringing Ben Jeffries in till end of season

Don't Leigh hold his registration though?

Is that it? three more new players one an x bull to see us through the 8s and Alex Mellor re-signed for 2 years?

must be bloody good players to be able to gel with the team a mere few weeks before the 8s start. smacks a bit of desperation to me, a squad variation on the chairmans vote of confidence " Steve has assembled a great squad " and a couple of weeks later, four new players in for the 8's. its his money.

It was a fans forum, what else were you expecting? I'd say Mellor signing up for another 2 years is very good news indeed.

No news on Odsal then?

Apparently 'We're close"

No, I didn't understand what that meant either...

I'm about 4 miles away so I guess that's reasonably close.

I assume it means that talks are advancing but nothing is signed yet so nothing can be confirmed. Sounds like we have a deal with the RFL in principal.

Seemed that way to me too.

I can understand some of the cynicism, but I think it's unwarranted, after all, club officials certainly aren't going to tell fans everything and they naturally have a vested interest in talking things up - hence no-one at the club is going to admit to giving up on being top of the league, even though no-one this side of sensible thinks it's very likely.

The news about Alex was very welcome plus the fact he'll be fit in three weeks. Also very welcome was the news that they are putting more into the academy after the financial disaster caused us to lose so many young players.

The chairman also re-iterated his promise that all decisions have to be cost effective, so to maintain our full time squad, no cheapo ticket prices. They are hoping to get the info for next season out soon.

I'm not cynical about Green at all. If he says he's been negotiating and things are progressing then that's fine with me. I dread to think how much money he's got sat in the Bulls up to right now and that gives him a lot of slack with me.

What I'm sure he realises is that what's been served up on the field is the absolute key to making this work. You cannot sell rubbish at any price.

yes very good news, but that was expected anyway given his performances. Strengthening the academy is something else that is important, so thats good news additional to the short term fixes.

Indeed.

Last night JL was praising the team for putting in the effort - even in defeat. Which is fair enough, though if it's not the players who are messing up then do we take that as a mea culpa from Jimmy? Of course, we then get players saying in the T&A "we haven't done what Jimmy told us", so obviously, that's him off the hook...

I still have the feeling..or at least the hope, that Jimmy is taking the long term view and treating this early season as a precursor to the real work, which is the eights so, after busting a gut in training for six months, he'll cut it down and leave some energy for the match on the weekend and then we'll blow them all away. Well, that's the idea...