I don't understand the ins and outs of contract negotiation, etc, but does that mean we wont / have not yet made a contract offer ?

Can you remind me who the off contract players are.

I am sure you are a sound source, but this info seems from the very heart of the organisation. How do you get to know this stuff ?

Elliot Kear
James Cunningham
Matt Davis
Sadiq Adebiyi
Robert Butler
Jacob Ogden
Eddie Battye
Daniel Harrison
Tom Spencer
Jay Pitts
Michael Channing
Jarrod Sammut
Kieran Dixon
Api Pewhairangi
Kameron Pearce-Paul
Ben Evans
Matt Davies
Will Lovell
James Meadows

I make it 19 players out of contract at the end of the season?
Unless mistaken.

List of players off contract published on League express twitter account today

Just bought League Express


So players on the ‘Not Yet Determined’ list for all full time clubs / also an Off Contract list (i.e. defo not staying with current club, inc S Tomkins, Manu V)

Cas (10/0) inc
Catalans (15/0) inc Aiton, Anderson, Casty, Williame
Hudds (8/0) inc Mamo, Hinchcliffe
Hull FC (5/0) inc Minichello
Hull KR (19/0) inc Blair, Carney, Masoe, Scruton
Leeds (1/0)
Leigh (8/0) inc Hall, Mortimer, Dawson
Broncos (13/0) Kear, Lovell, KPP, Api, Pitts, Spencer, Sammut, Battye, Channing, Cunningham, Dixon, Evans, Harrison
Salford (7/0) inc Burgess, Huaraki, Littlejohn
Saints (7/0) inc Peyroux
Toronto (6/1)
Toulouse (3/0) inc Pettybourne, Mika
Wakefield (8/0) inc Mason Caton-Brown !!
Warrington (5/1) inc Westwood, Patton, Brown, Crosby
Widnes (9/0) inc Gilmore
Wigan (2/6)

Quite a worry if they have already been told they can go elsewhere if they wish. Question is where did you get the information that players had received a letter?

Bit of a worry that we wont have any players next season!!!!!!!

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.

It could be something as simple as the club saying "Look, we don't know what league we're going to be in next season - and thanks to the RFL we don't even know what the leagues are going to look like - so as things stand we're waiting until October to make decisions on contracts".

...OR IT COULD BE SOMETHING ELSE......but at the risk of me being accused of Hughes Bashing for the sake of it or my wife being insulted, I'll go no further

The difference between finishing 4th and 5th is £500,000. The points lost, which was partially due to the injuries to senior pro's has put us in a very precarious position. You can't give players speculative contracts .

...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.