He is a good player Jake but will never be world class as his lack of pace will always be his achilles heel especially at full back and his defence is poor but thats partly due to his lack of pace

With Watson's processes I am hopeful our wingers will be more successful at reading his passes.

connor is a class player. sorry to see him go, but we are moving in a different direction it would seem, can go missing in games and can spit his dummy out, But can win you games to, Maverick player, IMO when fit should always be in the England squad.

Russell has been very hit and miss, sometimes good, other times anonymous. I really wasn’t happy with him at the start of the year, and he seemed to play his best stuff with cogger, then went off a bit again when with fages. I agree they are too similar. He’s never going to be amazing. Same with his goal kicking, some days he nails every one from the touchline, other days he can’t even kick the sitters.
I really will be sorry to see English go, and really really hope this rumour isn’t true. A great prop forward who gives his absolute best to the C&G. You won’t get anything fancy from him, he won’t score many, no line running, no step, he runs direct, but always does that full pelt and is one of those weird guys that seems to relish the collision. Works hard in defence.
I have a great deal of respect for him both on and off the field. He went through a lot as a young forward as he was really close to Ronan Costello and what happened must have hit him very hard and yet he never ever shirks.

He’s 27. Hardly old.
He’s not a troublemaker, not sure where you get that idea from. He’s a wind up merchant of opposition players- but there’s no issue with Jake in the dressing room, or outside of the game either.
I’ll give you slow. But he’s always been that.

1. The brochure would have being designed long ago.

2. We generally dont need to try and sell tickets or shirts. We averaged over 10k before Connor and will after.

I'm really not sure about this, the one thing we needed more than anything in the halves was speed and the ability to run at the line, Conner does not possess this, it looks to me like there will be too many chiefs and not enough indians. If we had players like Field and French to feed off the distribution from Connor and Lolohea then WOW, but we don't... Will him and lolohea get in each others way? He is DEFINITELY not a centre, he's way too slow and for me has to play at 6, but alongside Fages.. not sure. I'm not sorry to see Russell go, hes not top SL standard, sad to see English go, but like many have said we have so many in that position and he was always a small prop with a massive haert which can only take you so far.

I see the Huddersfield Salary Cap is at Full Elasticity.

We have lost from last years squad
Lutele
Wardle
Levi
Senior L
Cogger
Ashall Bott
And in all probability Ashworth and Mason.

However I am fully expecting we may have to offload a couple more to get under the cap.

Also included at the start of last year was
Chester Butler
Oliver Roberts
Jon Luke Kirby
Ronan michaels
Robson stevens
None of those likely to be on huge amounts but still….
That’s potentially 13 fewer players we started with than at the start of last season, two of those 13 will have been very big earners and we have brought in 8.

I also forgot Oliver Roberts so there has certainly been a big clear out as well.

Roberts was probably on a hefty wedge, its why he stayed around so long, we signed him on a huge (5 year?!) deal right after the last world cup where he was pulling up trees for Ireland, and then did nothing for the next 4 years