I forgot Jacob Trueman as well.

Hopefully next season we'll have

O Brien
Lumb
Ryan
Oakes
Olbison
Mellor
Crossley?
Pryce??
Any others promoted from the 19s.

Lest we forget Olbison ain't far off a testimonial year too, 2018 IIRC.

Paul Clough, Dale Ferguson and Lee Gaskell on Huddersfield's radar in today's T&A.

I can't blame any of them, Clough has done well.

More rumours from the T&A article:
Mitch Clark & Danny Addy - Hull KR
Dan Fleming & Steve Crossley - Toronto Wolfpack
Epalahame Lauaki, Etu Uaisele, Richard Mathers, Jonny Walker & Lucas Walshaw - released
Jay Pitts, Ethan Ryan, Matty Blythe & Tom Olbison - retained

Dane Chisholm to wear number 7 shirt.

After the plethora of props we signed up this season it seems most are buggering off! Only Sidlow and Kavanagh signed up for next season so far.

If Rohan Smith can somehow claw Matty Blythe back to where he was in 2013 and 2014 as one of our better centres then I might just get off his back. I also fully expect Smith to rip up our defensive patterns in the off season and start again.

So far if all the rumours are ture our squad should look something like below.

1. Moss
2. Clare
3. New centre
4. Welham
5. Caro/Ryan
6. Pryce
7. Chisholm
8. Kavanagh
9. 0'brien
10. Sidlow
11. Olbison
12. Pitts
13. Charnock?
14. Lumb
15. New prop
16. New prop
17. Haggerty

Thomas, Blythe, Keyes, Mellor, then sign up plenty of U19s.

When I saw that Clough was leaving i was gutted. But looking at that squad I'm a little optimistic. Ok we're losing a lot of players. Most we won't miss as they probably played more games for Keighley and Dewsbury than for us. Some men are key but it looks like we've the spine of the team sorted already with some absolute quality. When you think our spine at the beginning of thisbyear was Mathers/Addy/Gaskell... Next year it will be Moss/Pryce/Chisholm

Smith has already found some gems from the NRL in Chisholm and Moss. If he can find one or two more, we're looking like a much more balanced and probably better team.

Our hugely talented U19s can provide the depth.

Hopefully Smith has the money to spend.

Purtell is signed up for next year too, unless I've missed something, although in all the time we've been crap the last few weeks I haven't read or heard anyone saying we're missing Purtell.

Players currently contracted for next year, in squad number order, are the following:
Thomas, Caro, Purtell, Welham, Chisholm, O'Brien, Sidlow, Clare, Kavanagh, Halafihi, Haggerty, Lumb, Mendeika, Campbell, Lovegrove, Moss and Keyes.

The only way we're missing Purtell is that it means Blythe is in the team. Purtell is less poor than Blythe. However neither are good enough any more and the position is probably our weakest now we have Chisholm to play 7.

Think Purts is 'steady', more than a game breaker and, though that might [isound[/i to be a poor compliment, being 'steady' probably puts him well into the better half of our squad this season.

Weren't we linked with Armstrong from Leigh at one stage? Might be some truth as we badly need a centre and he'd be an improvement on Blythe or Purtell.
Roger also hinted about us signing a winger and prop from London. Not sure why we'd need another winger unless Williams is off. We could always try Clare as a centre and then our wingers could be Caro/Ryan/London winger.
Not sure who the London prop could be. Slyney?
If we need some more forwards I would certainly be after Verlinden from Workington. He is a real handful and every time I've seen him play he has caused the opposition all sorts of problems. Would certainly benefit from going full time, a bit like Mitch Clark.

As for second rowers, we could try and sign Philbin or maybe even make a play for Mitch Achurch if he's willing to swallow his pride, take a pay cut and drop down a division.