It's not just crowds - sponsorship is very hard to come by and the actual cash even harder!

ah!

so therefore what we have is what we have got for this season?

mmm we sure dont need a lot of injuries then!

Backs to the wall - love it!

Think it's the same at every club this season.The injury list @ Leeds proves that point. The financial position out there is probably more severe than last year for many companies. So there's no miracle cure on the horizon.Anyone who can field a relatively experienced 17 every week will stand a chance.
We will have the odd hic-ups here and there but we do posess a group of players that cover most bases and our kids have also tasted a fair amount of game time to have confidence in them.

if true its bloody bad business we have lost Newton and Brough who must have being on big money i like the Gledhill signing but we now need a top class scrum half and a decent hooker
Cooke and Kirmond are poor signings when you look at who we have lost

We have lost our 2 best play makers and replaced them with players who will not dictate or turn a game

I get what you're saying, but it's never that straight forward - is it.

If Brough was on that much money, he surely would have stayed.

Was told at begining of the week he's heading back to Leeds................................by a loiner, we shall see!!!!

Fail to see how Newton can be classed as one of our two best playmakers!

They tried to get him on loan last week but it didn't come off. But if their injury problems don't clear up i'd expect them to keep trying.

So the rumoured loose forward is a none starter then??

Am i getting this???
We have lost Brough & Newton, and have brought in Cooke, Gledhill and Kirmond along with a few quid for the transfer fee. Kirmond is rumoured to be getting paid by Hudds and we are now saying that is what we have to go with as there is no cash left??

this is the same issue that im finding hard to understand! i can appreciate that the money we receieved doesn't have to go to improving the squad right away but when people say that we still can't afford to spend it is when i get concerned

Wasn't Cooke's contract paid up by Hull KR? If so, then surely we aren't paying him the same kind of cash Newton was on? In addition, we seem to have been prepared to up Brough's salary, so that cash must have been there?

Yes thats what I thought re Cooke salary. so we lose Brough & Newton wage say £120000 and sign kirmond and Gledhill say £70000 and we get cash from Hudds and so we have money in budget to spend

Did anyone think it would be easy running a SL club in these tough times?

It's only 6 months ago that the tax man was after a very large sum of money.