At least £45k saved in wages. Could be come in handy should a player become available mid-season.

I don't think any club did that, this is all down to their parasite agent, a dreadful example of the breed.

No they weren't, that was just fake news cooked up by their agent, which a surprising number of posters on here seemed to fall for.

Both were offered deals, both were then offered enhanced deals, but they refused. At that point Trinity would have virtually given them away. We'd almost certainly have reduced any fee once negotiations broke down. Yet no club came forward, they were suckered.

Shame. Oddly to me it looks like Crofty has got the better deal, even though Shaw IMO seemed the better prospect. Croft could improve dramatically in Oz, not sure Shaw will in France!

Do you KNOW no-one was interested or THINK no-one was interested?

Croft was starting to put some good performances together for us back end of season. He certainly put on some muscle too. I was expecting him to become a good SL centre in a couple of seasons. Think he will go well at Brisbane feeder.

Should this not be posted under your other name unless it is just based on your own supposition or is it from the chip shop.

I thought Croft was progressing nicely since returning following his long injury layoff. Presumably the club still saw him as third choice centre at best, 4th if Langi was already pencilled in, and valued him accordingly.

I like Croft and would have been happy for him to play but the team has evolved while he was injured.

Thats the issue, how many centres can we èmploy. Also from what I saw of young Law on boxing day and what folk say about Ollie Pratt. These look two better prospects than Croft and could quickly eclipse him. Good luck to the kid but these things happen and the club moves on

Croft got big raps as a young centre too I recall. He’s some ways ahead of both now as to be expected. Croft will be a good SL centre I have no doubt. I expected he would be Lyne’s replacement but guess it’s not to be now.

Looks like Shaw scored for Villeneuve. https://mobile.twitter.com/VilleneuveXI ... 7966022656 Who knows they may come back, but development wise its important for them to get some game time. Hopefully their plight will be a lesson to the other young players to not accept blindly what their agent is telling them

Looks like Shaw scored for Villeneuve. https://mobile.twitter.com/VilleneuveXI ... 7966022656 Who knows they may come back, but development wise its important for them to get some game time. Hopefully their plight will be a lesson to the other young players to not accept blindly what their agent is telling them

PT is right on this one imho. From what I’ve seen I’m more impressed with Law than Pratt, but both are good for their age.

Truth is Croft was a 50/50 at best even before his agent cocked up. You watch him last year he could be mistake prone, far more so than Hall for example. He’d have struggled to get a starting place imho. I do agree he did improve a bit at the end of last year, there were glimpses.

Apparently we're looking to bring Shaw back too

So I'm not sure how good he is now.
Clearly bags of potential but for those that know him well, is he ready for first team?