Im not sure how much people really know about players salaries.. But a friend of mine from another club told me that the top earners at warrington are

1. Monaghan
2. Asotasi
3. Hill
4. Myler
5. Westwood

If you're having a good rebuild, you have to lose a few of those.... 2 gone already and Monaghan with one foot out the door (if you believe the rumours)

Joel Monaghan, Gaz O'Brien, Roy Asotasi releases confirmed by club
Grix retiring as well makes this a big clear out.

Big loose and a right centre surely the priorities now? Grix, Monas & GOB leaving should leave a good chunk of cap space for two new players..

6 down. 1 in.

Who next? Eastmond? Chase? prop? Centre?

I'm slightly worried we'll be keeping Wheeler on as cover for centre/6...

What about sandow,gidley,lineham,Hughes,Dodds that's more than 1 in?

Are we not missing something here? In the cases of Joel and GOB, it has been the clubs decision to release them with a year left on their contracts. Unless they were prepared to walk away from those contracts then presumably we've had to reach settlements with them.

I think we certainly need additional recruitment as you suggest but wonder what's left in the pot. If we don't buy anyone else our right centre options would be Evans, Wheeler and King. I suppose if we got a third of a season each out of the first 2 that would give King a few games to bring him on..........

There is also the option of Jack Hughes, Currie & Ratchford at right centre. As long as it is not Wheeler.

Evans/Wheeler are not the answer to any issue in the club both too injury prone.

If Wheeler gets a gig next year with us then TS' mental state has to be questioned. Wheeler has done nothing to show he deserves an extension.

Currie has good hands and is fast for a big guy, Hughes is fast and a good defender. Is Hughes a better defender than Currie? I think Currie thinks and handles the ball better than Hughes, either one of these partnering Lineham will be good with the other one partnering the other winger.

I wouldn't be surprised to see GOB sign for a RU side

I'm not sure whether their contracts had options in the clubs favour or not....?

When we signed JMonas, we paid Hicks a one off settlement figure, which did not count on the 2011 salary cap as Hicks did not play in the 2011 season that he was contracted for. So there is a precedent already set for this....?

Plus O'Brien & Monas may already have two year deals sorted for 2016 elsewhere, so a pay off may not be needed?

Latest Guardian story suggests the club have made a decision to release him early, so certainly wasn't his call.

This is a proper dead wood culling exercise. Gutted for Joel in some respects but club wise I think we are doing right.

so, the squad for next year now is
Atkins
clark
currie
dwyer
england
evans b
evans r
harrison
hill
johnson
king g
king t
laithwaite
patton
penny
philbin
ratchford
russell
sandow
sims
westwood
wilde

plus
Gidley
Lineham
Hughes
Dodds


So 26 players there, i'd discount Wilde and Johnson at this point from the full first team squad, 24, that doesn't look a great squad at the moment, looks lopsided and will take some more signings as mentioned already to address a few issues or some positional changes as also already mentioned to level it out.

TBH i'd forgotten about laithwaite while typing this out. Whilst i've no idea if hes got the same issues as grix, we could well not be seeing him till half way through the season.

I got told a while ago that Ben Evans was on his way to Widnes, anybody heard anything?

No Wheeler FMC? Is that more in hope or expectation?