It's been a few weeks since Wales blobbed out, it's probably about time to announce another loan for Evans? He and Kear must be about ready to return to pre-season training now?

Oh, and today's T&A is Cummins saying there are things in the pipeline for new signings but nothing ready to announce.

... in fact today's T&A also talks about a few things stalling the loan for Evans, I should probably read the whole article first...

Chev 13

Chev has the 13 shirt?! God help us...

I heard Donno and Addy were squabbling over it like children, so old man Chev sorted it by doing what any other grandad would do.

What! Got them one each..in different colours?

Should this now be renamed who will go!

There have been murmurings for a few months - probably as he's one of our best players - and I was also told he doesn't always see eye-to-eye with Cummins, but I fully expect Sammut to be leaving us.

Things just [iseem[/i that way.

I fully expect rumours linked to our better players to be all over the place for the next season or so. Some will be complete rubbish, some may be true. So long as the new owners are honest and open with the fans while all this is going on.

If players want to leave then fine, I can't blame them given the uncertainty. We just need to make sure we still have a club left once they're gone.

Sammut to Warrington is the first one I've heard this morning. The source isn't a rumour monger, but I don't know where he's got his info from.

With the sudden retirement of Briers and losing the likes of Morley, they're the only top end club that I can see having the cap space really.

Sammut won't come cheap. I'd be surprised if Wire had enough cap space at this stage of pre-season to fit him in.
In addition to that, they don't really need him. With Ratchford, Myler and GoB as backup I don't see where he fits in.

My initial thoughts were that Saints would be after him in a flash. A quick look on the Saints board suggests they all think the same. Their squad for next season is very impressive - they just need a decent 6 and it's a trophy winning squad imo.

Unfortunately I doubt we'll have the cap space, but you're right - a 6 and we're laughing. I actually think we're potentially a trophy winning squad even if we don't sign a 6 - Walsh will take all of the pressure off whoever plays 6 (Hohaia/Wheeler/Wilkin).

Anway, more on topic I hope everything works out for your club; the fans have gone through a lot recently and they are well overdue some good news. Your situation is very similar to Saints IMO, we're just fortunate that McManus came along when we were hemorrhaging cash in an old stadium.

Yeah, they've lost a couple of senior players but surely they've surely also upgraded a few of the younger players too. With those swings and roundabouts I'd guess they'd struggle to fit a player of Sammut's stature, and obvious cost, under the cap at this stage.

Lets just hope we can keep hold of the players brought in. If we manage to avoid losing any players from the squad i believe we look slightly stronger on the field.

Its a BIG if though.

Someone on the Wire board suggests that they have over 300k available on their cap. Can't see it myself, but Carvell, Briers, Morley, Hodgson, Cooper must have been on a fair chunk between them.