Confirmed as leaving, along with Danny Bridge, Jordan Burke, Gavin Bennion and James Saltonstall.

And some fair shake up of the backroom staff aswell ....


Thanks for your efforts to all those players and coaching staff leaving. ...
Yes even waterhouse. ...!

No surprises here with any of those leaving, wish them all the best especially Riley!

I did say sometime back that Sims is a direct replacement for Trent.
As I'm aware Sims was brought in to play 2nd row and cover prop but there is reason to see him playing his career out in the front row as I see it.

Coupled with the backroom staff ,that is some clear out & it will be interesting to see who fills these posts .

I bet there's a certain chair of the deck variety that is happy with this.

Riley and Waterhouse were certainly my 2 biggest gripes last season.. For completely opposing reasons though.... Riley was all heart but lacked positional intelligence. He did well to keep his place for as long as he did when you consider he kept making the same mistakes game after game... i wont repeat myself on Waterhouse.

Riley leaving is a bit said though, as he was a local lad that obviously loved playing for us... I wish him all the best at his next club and hope he has nice long injury free career.

I know it's dangerous to go against the grain on here, but I think Waterhouse has been a very good signing and performed particularly well in big matches.

I also had the misfortune to view an earlier post in the thread as I wasn't logged in and the solitary member of my Ignore List made an appearance.
Ashton Sims might have played a bit of back row earlier in his career, but he is definitely an out and out prop nowadays.
I very much doubt he has been signed to play left second row.

Mick Turner from Wigan will be head of strength and conditioning.
I did hint a while ago.

It may very well be true what Riddler says in his last sentence but he was bought as a direct replacement for Trent. But Sims has an extra feather in his cap than Trent and can play prop at an out and out level just like Morley did through much of his career.
But he was not brought in as a replacement for Big Roy.

There is more to it than meets the eye with these departures. I believe SJM is reducing his input into the club.

I don't how true ,but there was a rumour that John Clarke was coming onto the back room roster as well.

So asiteasy is staying then.

Looks like it

Unless we sack him