Partly yourself and partly an open question. It may be that I got the wrong end of your response (and if so I apologise). My point was we cant hold off signing guys up for next season (because we have an outside chance of going up) aswe may end up losing them (and if we don't go up, which lets face it we probably wont) it would leave us weaker for next season, again in the championship.

Correct me if I'm wrong but the following players are out of contract at the end of this year.
Who are we likely/would like to keep?

Slyney
Barthau
Foster
Thackray
Magrin
Walker
Macani
Kear
Harrison
Naiqama
Eliab
Stapleton

Slyney - yes
Barthau - yes
Foster - yes
Thackray - more down to him, can he keep going?
Magrin - probably, improving every game
Walker - not sure
Macani - probably
Kear - yes
Harrison - yes
Naiqama - again, may be up to him, solid, but lacks speed now. will Stapleton be back?
Eliab - i would like to see him play, give him a chance - lets see what he has got

Can Ioane not be added to that list as I thought he was 1 yr like Eliab and Stapleton ?

Ioane, Foster, Barthau, Kear - big yes

Magrin showed yesterday what he can do, Walker - yes

Thackray and Wes, bring a calming influence to the team ! Is that worth a contract, not sure, wouldnt be disappointed if they did resign

Macani - not sure, I cant recall him scoring a 'wingers' try, too much lateral running, lets hypothesise and Dixon was out of favour at HKR, would he slum it with us ?

Harrison - I just dont know, I am sure he gets though so much unnoticed work in a game, well I haven't noticed it.

Stapleton looked class v Oldham, Yowies, Eliabs video highlights looked class - if fit, settled, inclined I would say yes to both.

But who knows what is out there and which clubs are hovering like vultures.

We might have the Marque issue to deal with next season!!

Jarrod Hayne maybe!

Apologies, forgot about Stapleton, knew I'd miss one! Regarding Ioane, according to this he's on a 2-year deal m.nrl.com/ioane-heads-to-london- ... fault.aspx

Apologies, forgot about Stapleton, knew I'd miss one! Regarding Ioane, according to this he's on a 2-year deal m.nrl.com/ioane-heads-to-london- ... fault.aspx