Your four props? That would be a concern, especially the way I've seen your pack improve over the past year or so. Realistically, unless your board pull some good moves out the bag, you'd weant to hold onto 3 of these 4.

I wouldn't mind seeing Prescott at Saints, or young Cooper from Warrington.

Saints need to bolster the front row with one good signing, as most fans have commented. Who they replace gidley with is probably the most important move after that. Shenton would be good - pace, good defender and still time to develop further.

Deacon won't be leaving Wigan (at least he will not leave to play elsewhere). He signed for Wigan as a way into coaching. He is currently a player/assistant coach for this year and is expected to retire from playing at the end of the season and will then be an assistant coach for the rest of his contract. I could only see him leaving if a better (from his point of view) coaching opportunity came his way.

Would rather see us retain Buderus another year to help transition McShane into the full time 9 role and just let Diskin have his chance to 'star' at another SL team instead.

And sign LMS? No thanks...

Saints

Meli
Flannery
Fozzard
Gidley
Cunningham
Faasavalu
Hargreaves
Matty Smith
Ste Tyrer

so we are now missing this teams
- Catalans Dragons
- Crusaders Rugby League
- Hull Kingston Rovers
- Salford City Reds
- Wakefield Wildcats

I expect Fozzard, Gidley and Cunningham to all leave, probably the two loaned out players aswell, leaving the other four playing for contracts. Hargreaves should be kept on, Fa'asavalu probably will too as we are already short on forwards without releasing these two. Meli and Flannery are both decent players but I'd prefer to replace these from within and pick up another top forward.

my out of contract team would be:-
1. Paul Wellens
2. Scott Donald
3. Michael Shenton
4. Keith Senior
5. Francis Meli
6. Luke Dorn
7. Paul Deacon
8. Andy Coley
9. Kieron Cunningham
10. Iafeta Palea'asina
11. Harrison Hansen
12. Ali Lauitiiti
13. Craig Fitzgibbon

Subs:-
14. Matt Diskin
15. Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook
16. Mitchell Sargent
18. Steve Menzies

Hkr


Colbon
Webster (quota)
Walker
I'anson
Mills
Lovegrove (quota if he leaves hkr)
Wheeldon
Watts
Galea (quota)

Just seen LMS is available. I reckon there'll be a few clubs after him.

At least 3 of that team are likely to retire at the end of this season (Deacon,Cunningham & Menzies) and Wellens and Senior can't be too far off doing either. You'd have to have a fantastic set of youngsters coming through in 2012 to fill all the holes in that squad even if all 17 were playing next year.

How's he gto on for you since you signed him? He always impressed me when I saw him at FC (especially given his age), but I haven't heard much about him since he moved and can't recall seeing much of him.

Average, not big enough, had a great first season at Hull, not done much since.

How old is he now?

Salford -
Malcolm Alker - 2010
Karl Fitzpatrick - 2010
Ashley Gibson - 2010
Mark Henry - 2010
Daniel Holdworth - 2010
Lee Jewitt - 2010
Phillip Leuluai - 2010
Stuart Littler - 2010
Dean McGilvray - 2010
Ian Sibbit - 2010
Adam Sidlow - 2010
Jeremy Smith - 2010
Matty Smith - 2010 (1-Year Loan)
Marc Sneyd - 2010
Luke Swain - 2010
Willie Talau - 2010
Ste Tyrer - 2010 (1-Year Loan)
Ben Wood - 2010

Wouldn't mind Talau, Swain, Henry, Gibson, Jewitt and holdsworth on longer contracts.

Jamie Langley?

saints

mathew gidley (to retire)
franis meli (sign another year unless someone is available)(lomax/armstrongfoster)
matty smith (will be released)
nick fozzard (to retire)
maurie fassavalua (sign another ear or 2)
kieron cunningham (announced retirement)
chris flannery (sign another year if not we have dixon and ashurst)

and I suspect that all 5 will be leaving too.

also tyrer

hargreaves has another year and so does wellens

so next year are team should look like this

wellens, gardner, sheton/wheeler, soliola, meli, pryce, eastmond, gragham, roby, perry, puletua, wilkin, flannary

moore, hargreaves, fassavalue, clough

Bit early for that!!

Wierd.

With regards Flannery, I rate him as a squad player, he plays the game as a whole very well, but I can't help think that our squad is a bit heavy on his position, especially since the emergence of Dixon and Ashurst. If we did sign an extra prop, you'd be looking a puletua spending more time in the back row. I could see him moving on, especially as Dicko and Ashurst will cost less in wages.

Cross Richard Whiting off the Hull list as he has just signed for another 2 years which is great news for us, as he has been great this year, even on the wing.

hopfully Willie Manu will be next for us, big rumour that tickle is after leaving, and talk is he could be Huddersfield bound. Think he will end up at Warrington (replace Solomona) where he nearly went last year.

Not according to these reports:

St Helens' prop Bryn Hargreaves has signed a two-year contract that will see him remain at the club until 2010.
[urlhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_league/super_league/st_helens/7577506.stm[/url

Wellens, 27, has put pen to paper until 2010
[urlhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_league/super_league/st_helens/7149982.stm[/url

At Catalans the ones I know of are:

Dane Carlaw
Casey McGuire
Kane Bentley
Andrew Bentley