Oh Dear I agree with Lister

There are other players OOC too....just mentioned those 4 as players in the positions we need to stregthen.

Be interesting to see where they end up....or if they just renew their current contracts.

Agree of my original list, Coley would be my main target.

Be interested to hear views on which of the two you would take on out of:

Jon Clarke V Julien Rinaldi
Andy Coley V Michael Korkidas
Ewan Dowes V Matt Cook
Chev Walker V Liam Colbon

I also think Powell is too general when he says about Northerners wanting to go back home. I'd say that is true when a player is 23 years old or younger and with a girlfriend/wife, close family & maybe a baby in the North. You can evidence this with guys like Chris Riley, Paul Sykes, Kevin Penny, Luke Gale, Matt James etc.

But the guys over 25 with a partner in London will likely only want a good secure contract - players like Purdo, Jon Wells etc were happy to stay for long periods and even Olly and Andy would no doubt have taken the deals offered to Randall and our hero Rodney Trotter.

It is also far easier to retain staff if you are a credible guy yourself and that the team mates are of a decent standard.

I have been sour for many weeks but I genuinely feel we have a decent 13 for next season. 4 more reasonable signings will give an experienced 17. I don't think the other 4 signings will necessarily be better than our youngsters but at least we get a choice as to when we field them.

No offence to anyone but it has been awful to watch Jamie O'Callaghan get pitched in to the first team every week when he was years away from being ready - this shouldn't happen again. Equally I don't really want to see a Dave Williams situation - he came through with Clubby, but Clubby has been in the first team since March 2006 and Dave has only played about 16 or 17 games in all that time. He should have gone full time years ago or been released. It will be hard for him at the age of 24 or so to suddenly play each week, he's been knocking about as an over age player in the under 20s for an eternity.

Cheers
Mark

Oops, honest mistake mate, apologies.

A very well written article none-the-less Streetboy, thank you and well done

Chad says in the Leeds programme "We [he and his family] are in the first steps of getting our English passports."

(No such things though Chad. If you emerge from the process successfully, you'll find that you have British passports.)

Presumably this would make him off-quota?

Chad would remain a Quota player until such time he both submits his passport to the RFL and gains the exemptions; after a successful review he will be off quota. It is not an automatic process - he must apply.

If he doesn't even know it is a British passport he should be disqualified

Quote: jbuzza "If he doesn't even know it is a British passport he should be disqualified He does say that they have to pass a "Life in the UK" test, which he reckons many British people would struggle with. lifeintheuktest.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/

Quote: jbuzza "If he doesn't even know it is a British passport he should be disqualified He does say that they have to pass a "Life in the UK" test, which he reckons many British people would struggle with. lifeintheuktest.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/

Bloody hell.....some of the things they ask I reckon 95% of normal Brits would struggle to answer.

Don't think Coley is an option, unless something has changedhttp://forums.rlfans.com/viewtopic.php?f

If there are three injuries or more to the top 17/18. Is there strength in depth with that squad?

Andy Coley is retiring to continue as a Quantity Surveyor. Listen to the BBC Manchester podcast, Rugby League Extra, from last Thursday. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0 ... aun_McRae/

Andy Coley is retiring to continue as a Quantity Surveyor. Listen to the BBC Manchester podcast, Rugby League Extra, from last Thursday. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0 ... aun_McRae/

I suspect if he becomes a UK national the club applies to the RFL for an "exemption" with the appropriate paperwork and the RFL say yes pretty darn quick.