Can live with this one. Couldn't fault his effort or finishing but can be costly in defence.

While I agree Ben is probably the least important loss in terms of actual ability lets not forget his spirit and fight which I think would have been important in arguably our hardest SL season.
He would have definitely been up for it next season and I was hoping he might stay.

Oh well, lets hope we don't have to sell anyone else and we get a few players coming our way soon

Losing Ben is a loss to us. His effort and enthusiasm were second to none and he has that bit of mongrelm in him that would have been priceless in a relegation battle. Yes he had the odd mistake in him defensively but he chewed up many meters going forward and bagged plenty of tries. He deserved his knights called up and was a popular bloke in the dressing room, integral to the much-lauded team spirit we had generated. He'll be missed.

All that said i'm more annoyed about Liam Kaye leaving. What the point in bringing through the kids through the ranks to the first team, watch them have some success there and then offer them an pittence to stay, leaving them no real alternative to leave so they can make a living wage. Makes the club 1873 an utter waste of time, i'm not paying in so other teams can reap the benefits.

Mellars gone, have i missed this?

Been released by 'mutual consent'. I guess we must have giving some form of pay off, doubt he will have walked for nothing.

In the current economic climate, we are doing well to realise any transfer fees for the players that we have sold.
Even though there is undoubted quality in the likes of Poore, Charlie, T.Smith and Aiton, it's quite unusual for teams to pay transfer fees.
Does this mean that the respective new clubs feel that they have each got a bargain ?

And also players we haven't paid a transfer fee for, so it could be argued turning £0 into £200k plus is something of a business success in the present climate and our present situation.
I'll add the caveat that i'd prefer to not be in such a situation but we are where we are and for the reasons we are, best to make a positive out of it though.

I don't know if im happy or not.
Hes been paid for not doing anything for two years so a pay off is nothing out of the ordinary but when he's played i've seen a bit of something in him that might have benefited us this season.
Hey ho!

He wasn't the worst player to have pulled on the shirt thats for sure its just he wasn't worth the reported near 100K he was given. That wasn't his fault though, he was hardly going to offer to take less! If we'd have been paying him 30-40K he'd have been a decent guy to keep around the squad. I imagine he has fixed himself up with something back home and we are paying the difference.

Couldn't fault his effort but was shocking in defense. Being a local lad gave him a bit of a teflon coating. Probably had his best game for us in that last match v Cas where he came in off his wing as part of a game plan rather than on his own initiative.

I haven't seen anything official to say Kay or Mellars have gone?
Is it an RLFans fact or really a fact?

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