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.

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

Think it's a very good signing for you guys, gets a lot of unfair criticism, misses a tackle and hundreds of people put it on social media, other players do this regularly and nothing said. Intresting where he plays for you guys, excellent centre, but wasted there and you have lots of competition. For me he is a 6, a lot of Hull fans don't think he can play there, but I think he will do well there if given a good run at 6. Defence isn't ad bad as people make out too, just not at fullback as pace is exposed.

If we sign a 7 and another forward its the right decision for us, given us 6 years of great service and hope he does we for you except against us.

Connor will be on alot less then he was at Hull, they are comcerns regarding how he returns from a knee operation. Hes had a couple of them now cant see Hudds paying him top dollar with that in mind. Depending on who you believe it is muted he could (the main word being could) spend upto 10 months on the sideline.

Still reckon youd rather him with you then against, magician 10 metres out.

It’s a lazy signing. He’s not even that good. It’s a typical hudds signing. God knows what they are paying him when you consider they gave fages 3 times what Saints were paying him

I've always thought Jake would be an excellent ball playing 13, he likes the niggle, would be less exposed defensively and could chime in as and when he wants in attack. He loves the niggle and has a physical presence. But I can't see Watson ever going with a ball playing loose. Yates is an outstanding loose forward for his meters and defence and I can't ever see us deviating from that

We're all missing you so much on the Wakey board we were going to throw a party for you leaving but we didn't know who to send it to

Watto has spoken about Connor’s injury. The 10 months bandied about is rubbish- the club have done their homework, it’s based on old treatment on this type of injury and not current. The timescale is 4-6 months dependent on the person. Connor has already had the surgery so treatment has already started. Liam sutcliffe had similar injury and was back within 6 months.
A full 40 minute interview to include a full discussion on this will be on giantstv tomorrow