I'd be more than happy if we went and got this lad, for me the best ball playing second rower in SL, not had anyone near as good as his since John Cartwright made his caeo. news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 461604.stm

I'd be more than happy if we went and got this lad, for me the best ball playing second rower in SL, not had anyone near as good as his since John Cartwright made his caeo. news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 461604.stm

sheesh good call MR

How much leeway do we have in the matter of salaries: our last set of signings were not cheap and most are still with us.

maybe we have missed out on our targets and have nothingt o announce?

maybe we arent rushing into things?

Maybe we are just quietly getting on with business and will announce a 'job lot' soon?

who knows. - hopefully we wont be dissappointed


in terms of money....Parish keeps saying we dont have much in the press....which is always a worry, as it may mean we miss out on targets....and of course we REALLY need a good first year of vitories if new saidum is to work. (for me I would have put last years investment into the team this year but hey ho...hindsight is great)

We should have baileys money...cashmeres money...henrys money and ratchfords money......so i would expect 4 'decent' signings....

Think we missed a great opportunity big time regards Peter Fox !! think he's a good player and would have been a great replacement for henry !

really? another winger? think williams and jodie wias 1st choice.With Clay and Gibson as back up is fine, don't need another one. Centre yes, hooker yes, prop and second row

Im sure that last year most of our signings were announced in the off season? I Could be wrong though. (blame my old age )

Lauititi has just signed for Wakefield. 2 yr deal.

Very different market between this year and last year...

Wakefield have probably been spending less than they could afford because they thought they were going down and wouldnt have been offering more than a one year contract last year. So now they are very active with probably a bit in the kitt - tehy will also know they have teh space in their structure as they were already planning to go down.

Widnes now know they are coming up and are active and will be bringing in almost a whole new squad I suspect.

Crusaders players have flooded the market so to speak.

Difficult to judge but because Wakefield and Widnes are in a pro-active position to sign people they are doing so in a market where there is lots of choice (Crusaders + all the off contract players) and are probably picking up some players at good value.

Last year we were amongst the most pro-active in a market when there were fewer overall movements. I think we'll have little scope to be so active again because we will already have people on contracts etc.

Parish - "We have got a few other players in mind but obviously money is a factor.”
from MEN article .

officially we spent big last season in order for this season to go well . it didn't but part of the issue was the injuries / Fitness to some key signings the well publicised disruption caused by the coaching reorganisation .

It's fairly evident we are not going onto the new ground spending to the limit of the salary cap . in fact I believe we will operate on the smallest salary next year in SL

Widnes, already stated they will be ' able to ' if required , Wakey as Mmp said are suddenly flush as , a) they were spending least as they were odds on the go out of SL , b) in anticipation of this pretty much their whole squad was on 1 yr deals or loanees from other clubs, so they've got a clean slate to rebuild.

so Matt's remitt is to turn the sow's ear into a silk purse with the existing players. a team performance that punches above it's weight .
any new signings have to deliver and be young & good enough to count for the full season , we cannot afford to sign 50% duffers & crocks next season.

This is SO dangerous for the 1st year at stadium....if we have a team which isnt winning matches....people WILL NOT come...we only get one chance to move to a new staidum and ride the positivity wave of that move...please dont let us balls it up by having a team getting beat every week!!!

How were we going to pay Phil Bailey? Ray Cashmere is going, how is the salary he was being paid being re-deployed? Stefan Ratchford was reportedly made a good offer, has that money disappeared? What is happening with Mark Henry? If he is not being retained then presumably his salary is freed up or is it the case that we are shrinking our salary budget?

Without Cashmere and looking at the strengthening that others are doing our pack looks like a wooden spoon pack.

And what happened to the Myler money?

Ahh the myler money I found it the other day...put it somewhere safe tho can't think where at the mo