Rumours are often just that at this stage though.

But when we sign em on longer we have a pop,just saying

There always are rumours at this time of year as it is the peak contract sorting season. Most of them come to nothing. In addition to the ones you have listed i've heard ones for Scruton and Ryan as well. A lot of it is agents just trying to bump up their clients worth.

You would have to be a great salesman to talk up the worth of the majority of our squad. Most of them don't probably deserve what we're currently paying them

Probably 2 - Johnstone and Crowther for me.

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/33051939 Great news article. Smith must be inspirational to the squad. The bloke is a legend and the club are very lucky to have him. Hope BBC also use him for some pundit work as it'll be an improvement on the usual faces...

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/33051939 Great news article. Smith must be inspirational to the squad. The bloke is a legend and the club are very lucky to have him. Hope BBC also use him for some pundit work as it'll be an improvement on the usual faces...

Great interview.

He says all the right things and his experience shines throughout that interview. If he had more time I'd be confident of him turning things around. With such a short space of time I'm not sure he can.

Still if the players don't improve their performance and more importantly their attitude under his stewardship then it says a lot about them as individuals.

Let's think about this...

We can lose the rest of our regular season games and will be no worse than we are now - though it would be nice to win some to build confidence.

We need to beat the Championship sides to guarantee a place in the million pound game - beat another in that game & we are okay. We should have beat Leigh, Bradford might be okay, but the rest should be beatable.

Beat a Super League club in 8's and we will more than likely be okay without the million pound game. The other SL clubs are likely to be Salford & the Hull clubs. We have already beaten HKR, have a good record (home & away) against FC & we will see how we do against Salford on Sunday.

Plenty of time !

Owen
Anderson
McShane (most of the time)
Washbrook
Godinet
Crowther (when he's played)
Johnston
Annakin (when he's played)
Ashurst (unfortunately only in about 2 or 3 games)

I would add Scruton and Simon to that list.

Quite scary really, only 8 players out of a 27 man squad that have been reasonable and of those, we have 2 young lads and 2 that have barely played due to injury.
Having said that, Smith is a world class coach and he will certainly get some improvement our of the players that we have.

I still think that we will struggle on Sunday but, it's all about building confidence and getting some structure especially in defence.

Come on Trin !

I sort of agree with most of this but if a championship club do exceptionally well in the 7 games it could potentially be 2 super league clubs contesting the million pound game.

Think if we survive we may not have a squad next year. Other clubs are securing the best. What will be left if we survive middle 8s?

We've been there before. The squad that finished 2005 in style were largely gone by 2006, but they still did the job and will remember that campaign for the rest of their lives, as will we!

This squad now have the chance to create their own history and place in our list of great achievers! It's up to them now!