According to Zerotackle.com we have 12 players out of contract

Chris Bailey, Mark Bryant, Michael Channing, Liam Colbon, Matthew Cook, Luke Dorn, David Howell, Alex Hurst, Will Lovell, Chris Melling, Chad Randall and Dan Sarginson

rlhttp://www.zerotackle.com/super-league/rugby-league/players/off-contract-2013/#ixzz2VkXdJNmZrl

However I think this an omission as I believe that Jamie O'Callgahan is also out of contract, as he was awarded a 3 year deal announced on 30 September 2010 and the club has never announced an extension since then.

And of course Gower has left.

Gower would have been on £100k-£200k and our highest paid player - this salary will be available.

Howell is believed to have signed a four year six figure (£100k+) contract in 2009 at the peak of his powers. His contract will not be renewed.

Randall is likely to be on a salary comparable to Howell, so that will be another £100k or so removed. He has played his last game for the club also.

Chris Bailey and Dan Sarginson are widely believed to be joining Huddersfield and Wigan, so that would free up another £100k-£150k.

Dorn is another likely to go, as are Colbon and Melling, with the club deliberately not renewing contracts and the possibility of sincere rival interest likely to see them go.

I'd estimate we will have about £650k as a minimum of salary to spend and this will largely be made up of players who have barely featured in 2013, so the squad will be enhanced for sure.

This will free up several spaces on the two overseas registers, although not as many as we would ideally like, as we should be deemed a club outside the heartlands and have the same ability as Catalans to sign players from anywhere.

Things will improve
Rammo

PS Powell won 3 from 20 last season, whilst Rea has 3 wins, 2 draws and a cup quarter final spot, how is that worse than Powell?

Can you not see the damage this club is doing to the game, forget SL, there are other teams just as poor as London but the huge disservice it does to all the juniors and amateurs in London and surrounding counties.
Every pathetic performance, every amateur decision made by this club damages and undermines every effort the amateur movement make, when LONDON is synonymous with rank amateurism the amateur game is tainted by proxy.

Can you not see that we won't be in a position to attract decent players.

I said that the results were well below par but the *performances* were worse than under Powell. Rea's team are surrendering games.

EDIT: 48, 64, 46, 30, 82 - an average of 54 points per game shipped across last 5 SL games.

And next year is the last of the 3 year franchise so we can only realistically offer a 1 year deal as we're all up in the air. I see Wakefield signed Tuson from Wigan on a 2 or 3 year deal, confidence from them I guess.

Whatever we're paying for him, we're definitely getting value for Bailey. Replacing him won't be easy.

Exactly, without the security of funding beyond next season I doubt we will be able to offer anything other than short term deals.

Not necessarily true. Many Aussies, especially those from Sydney, would like to live in London, because it is a great city with lots going on.

Only the dour Kiwis, who come from a boring, low key country, would find northern England an interesting place to live.

Yeah, northern clubs (rugby or otherwise) do find it difficult to attract overseas talent...

Arf! Arf!

Interestingly enough I was in Auckland (sorry GF I would have told ya to look at the Vulcans game on telly) for our game yesterday and had conversations with three people who were all involved with London at some point and were at the ground. 2 were players, one was in the back room staff. Interesting to note that one player and the staff member both said at different times that Rob Powell was actually a good coach. The other player was Richie Barnett who was there long before Powell.

As I said at the time, we fans can only judge coaches on the match results, without knowing how good a coach is.

Boosty...hope you can watch Monday Night with Matty Johns tonight...Craig Glower is going to be on it.

I miss The Footy Show...so bad, it was really good.

I would think the majority of players in the Championship or those earning less than £25k on the outer fringes of top clubs would join us for a relatively modest £50k salary, especially as the club operates a portfolio of shared houses, which would be fine for a younger man and be sufficiently attractive.

The key would be to work out which players are better than what we have and unlikely to ever be a first team regular at their existing club. Keinhorst at Leeds, George Williams at Wigan and the Evans twins at Wire are all players with potential and talent.

There is always talent to be discovered and the next Rob Purdham to be found

Not really had any luck so far, though Mark.

We've given lots of players in the lower leagues chances (which is to our credit) but sadly, few have made the grade (in fact, can only think of Purdo at the mo).

Even Andy Ellis is back in the Championship.

Bring back Jonny G and Big Mick (actually, what's happened to Mick Nanyn? Anyone know?)