where do you get all this info from? ha i'd love to be in the know like that!

Hes probably are best prop at the moment

Very true but he isn't getting any younger and hopefully we can get a younger replacement who is just as good! whats happened to o'carrol at wigan?

[i wud keep ratchford at stand off and smiths not bin that great 4 my money and he must b on a few quid unless he cud do a decent job at hooker which a few said he was gud there against wigan uquotewhy would you get rid of smith?'"

Maybe so but he will be one of our top earners and if we need loot to keep the young uns he would be on my list to go.

very good point

wonder when Simms will be making one of his regular trips to Oz to speak to Greg Inglis/Israel Folau/Darren Lockyer etc etc ??

This is true from what i've heard too.

All the more reason for playing Sidlow regularly then not carrying water bottles

Update on Walkers form. Hmm. After his 1st half against Grand Final favourites St George, very good.

Thing is though, good wingers generally rely on favours from good centres. Maybe this should be the 1st area to improve or Walker could end up being an ornament. Looks the part, very expensive and stands motionless! Not a good move IMO.

It is in todays league express regardfing stapleton

ocarrol might be going to huddesfield with griffing going the other way

Best of luck to him shame really his salford stint only lasted 2 seasons

So, thus far, we're losing a grafting prop and a host of talented youngsters, and looking at bringing in an Aussie winger with a past that has included career threatening injuries and a battle with alcoholism. When can I renew my season ticket?

We seem to be caught in a 'catch 22' situation. A lot of our problems tend to stem from the obvious lack of money, we definately need to keep our young talented players because of the ruling (someone else has already mentioned on this post) and that is that with each season that passes, the Super League teams need to be showing a greater number of players that have come thru the academy system. Having said that, to keep them they need to be paid the going rate that the other Big Clubs can offer them, otherwise our youth is going to be cherrypicked by the wealthier clubs, which brings us back to the problem of our long awaited new Stadium, this is hopefully going to be a major boost of income for us, ie bigger sponsorship deals, and bigger crowds. But every time I drive over Barton Bridge I get downhearted because I don't see anything happening and just how long as this been in the making?

If the Stadium takes too long, I think our young players will be long gone, and then where will we be when the licences are up for renewal?

I want to be upbeat about the club progressing to be challenging for a top 4 spot, but I just can't see a light at the end of the tunnel, and from what I've read on here it sounds like all of Alan Hunte and Jim Readers work is being undone as our talented hopes for the future are picked off one by one.

As they said in the film; "SHOW ME THE MONEY"