I agree it is a big gamble but one worth taking from an FC point of view, especially when season pass sales at Hull are dropping very very rapidly. We paid over 100k for Joe Westerman and it is only in this season we are starting to reap some rewards from that s I doubt it will be an instant success but one I can see working more then it doesn't.

I believe the Doc has being had with Chase though, who to my knowledge has only played in one SL play off game. I suppose with the selling of Sneyd though he has got some of that money back.

Fact is Hull FC have paid £120k for a player that is on peanuts and has 12 months left to run on his contract. Granted he's had a decent half-a-season, but so have the majority of that Castleford team.

Just to put it into context, when Wigan signed Matty Smith from us they paid us £50k.

Yes, but we were a "distressed seller" at that point and that cash probably kept us afloat while we were digging down the back of the sofa to try & retrieve the Myler money!

I know what you are saying and agree to some extent. But like yourselves we can afford to pay the 100k+ so it is hardly a big deal from our point of view.

Because most of you are.

When did I say that selling Sneyd was deluded? I said that those of you thinking £100k is a good deal are deluded.

£100k for a cash strapped club would have been terrific business, but for a club with the cash to stock pile it isn't.

Most young players will probably go down the Sneyd route in the end for you anyway.

Or we could have paid it for England's future scrum half for years to come.

I see somebody's already pointed out the flaw in your Matty Smith argument.

Is 100k a lot of money for a player who may or may not be a one season wonder? Yes it is. However, we can easily afford it, we are desperate for a half back and whilst he could flop he just just as likely turn us into a top 4 club. So it's a gamble worth taking.

We only need to shift 7 or 8 hundred extra passes next year on the back of this and we're in profit already, and with a guy we can market as a proper scrum half that's not unlikely.

Disappointing to see him leave, although it was inevitable once he was loaned out that he wouldn't return to Salford.

In terms of the fee it is probably a good deal for burn clubs. As for the future, no one really knows how Sneyd will go although he waited long enough at Salford for the chance to have this current 'half a decent season' so you can't really blame him and his agent for being eager to get a deal sorted.

I think he will go well for Hull, whilst at least for a change we have the potential to bring in players of a similar or higher standard in his place, unlike when we have lost players in the past.

*both clubs

Your logic doesn't make sense.

Regardless of how wealthy a Club is, receiving a substantial fee for anyone is good business and not at all deluded. Are you trying to say that because Salford have disposable dosh it would only be a good deal if it was for a great deal more? Do I really need to identify the flaw in that argument too?

If you look around at most SL Clubs you'll find that there's plenty of turnover in their youth. You can't keep all of them after all, just the decent ones. Just look at Wigan, Saints, and Leeds. Teams that have been happy to offload youngsters by the bucketful. If Salford do the same it's somehow a negative though eh?

When considering the £120,000 transfer fee I think you have to take into account that Hull were bidding against others and this obviously pushed up the value. Personally I think the club have done OK to get this considering Sneyd only had 12 months left on his contract.

If we got this much for Marc it makes you wonder what Evalds and Theo could be worth at 23. It may be wise to put this money aside for extended new contracts for our best youngsters.

No flaw to it, he was a scrum half with little time left on his contract and was sold. Granted we werent in as comfortable financial position as we are now, but it's a reasonable comparison.

Tim Smith an ex NRL, Wigan and in-form Wakefield scrum half cost us £75k last season too. That situation alone shows you the risk associated with big value signings.

Right, to make it even more simpler for you, do you think MK would rather have £100k in his already bulging pockets or the form SH in his team next year?



This part's laughable, the juniors Wigan/Leeds/Saints get rid of are their second string youngsters as the best 7 or 8 are in their first team.

I think something else that people forget is that we also have Evalds and Mullaney on the books who have both played HB and in Mullaneys case he did rather well when he did starts in the halves until he got injured.

Has the generator run out of red in Castleford as they seem to have disappeared today, maybe they are out building an effigy of the Doc to burn.

Very good bit of business for Salford and potentially good bit of business for Hull,