No real surprise, We already know he is going to try and do it on the cheap. Best thing we can do now is just try and get the best young English players and nurture them into a group of winners. Im a bit disappointed though that we didn't go for Gaskell. We will have to start being that English core that brought us so much success in the late 80's early 90's. If the league can somehow survive and get stronger then we are in prime position to have a future of home grown stars. Warrington will very soon be finding themselves in a similar position to us and they haven't recruited any replacements for their ageing players yet. Saints have pretty much gone through it and seem to be happy with what they have, And imo they have a good group (not sure about Jordan Turner though) Hull look as though they are trying to emulate Warrington and will be up and around the top, Leeds have done their usual stick rather than twist on the transfer front. (if it aint broken it doesn't need fixing)

Best thing we can do is try and use this as a transitional year and see how Wane copes with having to use his brain a lot more. It should give us plenty more clues on how he is as a coach this term.

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BTW, big-name NRL stars are really only newsworthy to RL fans. In that sense the lack of signings from RU is a much bigger deal for the rest of the population. Just look at all the hoop-la when Thomas signed for the Crusaders.

I was pretty sure you were saying signing overseas players was to the detriment of our own home grown young talent. If not sorry I got the wrong end of the stick.