Now confirmed both going - real issue for us as both are key players, Andy has almost made himself 1st choice hooker. We need quality replacements.......

Huge holes to fill.

Hopefully Hendo has the money to do so as he keeps mentioning the club's budget in his recent interviews!

On a brighter note, 2 members of the current squad have signed on for next season (Guessing Pewhairangi & Evans)
And we have signed a player from Super League to be announced in due course.

Hope Api has signed.....I know his partner had visa problems so hopefully all sorted...need some good news after Bartheau and Ackers gone...

Going to need some huge signings to replace those 2... Considering who will be in the league next year as well, top 4 is already looking harder and harder to attain.

Interesting to see who we have signed, will need to be a huge talent to replace what we have lost

"within our budget" worries me. Feeling a bit downbeat over the Broncos at the moment. Key players going, a tougher league next season, talk of part time the year after. Need some good signings to keep up

I suspect we are preparing for a franchise rather than straight promotion. 2 top players

Maybe I am just a glass half full bloke but I am sure Hendo has got this under control. Neither player (both of whom I wish the very best of luck too), would, I imagine have had this conversation with him a few weeks ago, especially given the emotion being presented, so I reckon he will have been out there scouring the market. I think in an ideal world, he would have sealed the replacements before announcing the departures, but an apparent inadvertent social media post forced his hand today.

He had already stated that they had signed a player but would only announce once his playing commitments had ended. So that can be only 6 clubs and working on the basis of who is off contract I reckon Louis Anderson, Jason Batieri or Mikael Simon from Cats, longshot might be Hansen from Leigh, hopefully not Walters from Leigh, as all these appear to be off contract. My heart tells me a return of LMS and Clubb to their roots, who cares about contracts !!

Our challenge now is to firstly tie in all the remaining players to avoid uncertainty, and then replace a quality half and hooker. Step one tie in Api, then maybe consider Boudebza medium term, he certainly had it but does he still have it. Half back will be tricky as no obvious candidates over here, so maybe a gem from the RLWC, or worst case season long loan, or may be Gidley ?

In terms of budgets, hopefully DH will go large, but interestingly, listening to the Tim Sheens interview on BBC podcast, they didn’t spend big this season and they did ok.

As for I have only ever seen it mentioned by folk on here who I am sure aren't in the know.

Back to the leavers, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Will in a Cats jersey and Andy in a Leigh or Warrington jersey next season. The real shame is we didn’t get to say goodbye.

All I said was that I recalled (happy to be corrected) the General Manager and the Owner in discussions about funding and an initial 3 year period was agreed to. I do not claim to be "in the know" but I do recall (I am 90% sure) such an agreement being reached. Hughes is no longer working and whilst he is wealthy, continued benevolence towards the financial black hole that we are cannot continue in the long run.



If we do go Part Time then I don't see us returning to the top flight until there is a change in ownership...licence or no licence, without a "plan" a la Perez, there's really no point in us being "promoted'.

Ackers will be in white with a north American maple leaf accent

Ackers homesick and then joins Wolfpack. What a joke. We are a soft touch, should have got a fee.

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Spot on BTW......we do tend to just accept funding from our owner with no actual business acumen being shown......another in a long line of players we should have received a fee for.

You can't blame the lad.He can't keep paying for his digs,new contract 12 months ago left him little choice should other options come available.

I was under the impression that Toronto were going to have an English base in the Northwest next season, so perhaps not such an odd move for a player homesick for the M62 corridor.

Correct, but what about when they have their batch of games in Canada? At least a couple of months away from "home".

If they finish in the top 2 (which I expect) then 15 "home" games or about 29% of the year.....and I sincerely hope that they are made to play home and away week on week like the rest of the clubs..........I can understand Feb and early March being a non-starter, but after that, they should be treated exactly like everyone else and if the travel has an adverse effect, then that's their problem!