Samir, Davies, Uaisele and Ulugia are all contracted for next year so unless another club makes us an offer for them they will still be here in 2016.
3 out of the 4 haven't 'disappeared', they are on loan and playing regularly. Keighley have expressed an interest in signing Samir permanently but I'm not sure about Dewsbury or Batley wanting to keep Uaisele/Ulugia.
I've said elsewhere before now that I would want to keep Ulugia, if only for his utility value.

It would be nice to loose some of the weaker players in the squad and add some bit in the pack...

We def need a strong scrum half though I think the 8's would have been a different story if we did,

Is Sijeka only contracted for 1 year?

Siejka is under contract until the end of 2016.

I seem to recollect reading that Davies had been "released" back in July, though I can't remember where to or under what terms.

We need a good half back, pref Gaskall at stand off and reliable cover / competition for the place...

Addy has worked at it but he isn't a scrumhhalf..


I would like to see some Nasty big forwards as we were out gunned by Widnes in the forwards last week,..

I don't remember reading anything like that and I'm sure it would have been mentioned on here at the time - are you sure you didn't dream it?

Just like Adam Brook, then.

think assumption was that davies and probably ulugia were de-registered in july to allow signing of ryan and Nielsen on quota. Was never actually announced as such by club though.

On the subject of more props - can I just say that I place more emphasis on dog and determination than i do on sheer size. This is because I (sadly) go back to watching forwards like Jimmy Thompson and Colin Forsyth, who were not big even by 80s standards, but would walk into the pack any SL team today or any day. Because you can't teach what they had.

Also i am not up-to-speed on our youg players, but each new season the young forwards are another year older, bigger and uglier and they do grow at an alarming pace nowadays - do we have any obvious breakthrough candidates?

Here if only we could solve our recruitment problem at a stroke, by signing Alan Redfearn, Colin Forsyth and Jimmy Thompson, all three on this great pic, Redfearn throwing a reverse pass to Forsyth who crashed through two defenders to score a signature try, Jimmy in his trademark headband running the other line.

I do love browsing the Rugby League Heritage Project

FA which ground is this at

I was thinking Knowsley Road but doesn't look like they were playing against Saints