The rule is if you don't have a contract for next year by 1 May then you are free to talk to other clubs. The club is being a responsible employer by reminding people of their rights. It doesn't mean they are not in negotiation with the players.

...No, but you can let them play for the contracts! If we don't lose another game we're in the qualifiers. If we lose 1 more, then it'll be touch and go, but we have a pretty good +/- which should be 100+ over Leigh after the coming weekend.
If we can't offer guaranteed contracts, surely we can offer contracts dependent on where we finish.......it seems crass that we could be traveling to Barrow at the end of July and not know what our squad will look like for the following season until the final whistle?

If we fail to make the Qualifiers then I can see us as part-time from next season, because the frugal way in which we haven't offered contracts points to a dramatic reduction in funding either way....

You do know that any player in the last year of his contract at any club in the UK gets that letter don't you?

It means absolutely nothing. Clubs are duty bound to send it out.

Several of those players have new deals agreed and several will never be offered a new deal even if they offered to play for £1 a week.

Interesting.

All those names seem to be good lads, but I am not aparty to behind the scenes.

For me retain if poss: Kear, Pitts, Spencer, Sammut, Battye, Cunningham, Dixon, Evans, Harrison

And give Fleming a chance !!!

Hey plum we agree, can’t argue with that list.