and yet, paradoxically, we have the money to offer the players we already have new contracts. Even players who leave appear to be offered new contracts ie Lunt, Kopczak. I fail to see anyone saying we should sign expensive players, merely better ones.

But yet we clearly aren't paying them what they think is enough -because those players have gone elsewhere for more money....

just a little curious Daz after your earlier post who the "they" are?
The club who you appear to be criticising for its poor marketing strtategy ............
or the fans/posters who are cautiously watching and waiting for the "encouraging news" and feel good factor ?

Either way you cant squeeze water - even out of a wet brick!
And the crowds wont increase as much as KD and us on here would like until we see some consistent improvement .....and silverware again .........but thats a well worn topic.....
Personally I was watching and waiting for us to do judst that after the LLS - but it wasnt to be!

Watching and waiting is the problem. We won silverware in the LLS- but we didn't increase our season ticket sales following that.

And you my friend do not know my circumstances or the people i am responsible for, So feel free to despair.

Which is completely irrelevant.

We still obviously have money to spend on players. If players want to play elsewhere for more money then that is their perogative. However it cannot be argued that the club cannot afford better players as long as extensions are offered to players we have.

It's not at all irrelevant- as you have no idea whether these extensions are more or less than what they are currently earning!

You are absolutely correct and I apologise, if your reason for not renewing automatically is financially related due to other commitments I apologise unreservedly and my comments are not aimed at you.

No apology necessary Mate, Even if money was no object, we all have out own criteria do we not.

What you say is true. We could have got rid of Larne Patrick and kept Hughes but we demanded a transfer fee of Wigan who would have kept him for nothing if we let him go instead we brought him back to the Giants and let Jack Hughes go to Wire.

We all know how that ended with Patrick but his body on the line, being happy and playing for us all through the 2016 season and helping us have a great season whilst Jack Hughes has achieved nothing this year (apart from a grand final and a Cc cup final with those no hopers at Wire ).GREAT BIT OF BUSINESS BY SOMEONE AT THE CLUB WAS THAT ONE.

But I guess jools and Meast will say that was nothing to do with the club, how do we know what went on behind closed doors and if our fans and Huddersfield were better the club could do anything it wanted.

IMHO we could have crowds of 10 k but we do bait have the right people at the top running things. Anderson was not the right coach and that was clear a long time ago.

Here we go again with the "let him go" line. Hughes said when he went he did so because Warrington was closer to home- he was obviously sick of commuting the M62 from Lancashire. The choice is not just down to the club- the players need to want to sign. For some it's just down to money, others have other considerations- as alluded to by jumbuck- just like supporters players have other commitments to their families!!! Some think their careers will be better served elsewhere....