For god sake move on, different club hugely different ambitions. Does Powell seem the kind of bloke who panics. He’s been coaching for 20 years now and whilst at Cas he produced one of the best attacking teams to ever Grace SL on a fairly limited budget. Warrington didn’t work out but that’s one glitch, all coaches have those, even Wayne Bennett.

The club is totally different now, we really do our research before we sign players. We won't get it right everything but I am sure we will get far more right than wrong. In the past we were to ready and gullible to believe the guff peddled by agents trying to off load their players. These days Steve Mills performs hours of research on all our signings which is a far more professional approach.

Yeah totally agree on Booth. He looks a great prospect, and some of the tries he’s scored in the reserves at centre have been top class. Just don’t think he’d be good enough cover at fullback in SL next year. Walmsley could potentially do it, but he still looks like a winger playing fullback to me.

If rumours are to be believed and we’ve already signed Trueman, Rourke, Storton and Matty Russell then I like how our squad’s shaping up for next year already. Would like to see one more worldie backrower sign, then I think we’d be good enough on paper to make a charge at top 8/6.

https://x.com/WTrinityRL/status/1824144025324229000 New signing to be announced tomorrow.

https://x.com/WTrinityRL/status/1824144025324229000 New signing to be announced tomorrow.

I'm giggling at the idea that Booth has "decent speed" - he's absolutely rapid!!

Also worthy of note - we aren't announcing our marquee signings until we are confirmed to be IN Superleague.

Any signing announced until then is a bonus.

I’m not sure how you get to that given we have already announced 2 of them.

ME's plan is a long term one, and not a short term one.

Those supporters who are expecting a Cleary, need to come back down to earth an be a little more realistic, we need to remember where we are right now, league wise, and as it stands, were not guaranteed super league just yet.

What we are bringing in mostly, is younger players, with a decent standard, which will hopefully make us a more competetive side for the future.

Going back to ME, what he is doing for the club in terms of players off the field, such as the facilities, ie recovery rooms etc, this can only abode well for the future, in terms attracting players from here and the NRL, that are of a higher calibre. Hopefully, this word will be spread among players, both here and over there. Also further development to the stadium will aid this.

Bang on.
Next year is all about consolidation and being competitive.
Just outside playoffs in first season back would be perfectly fine for me.....as long as we are competitive and building.
SL is a big step up from where we are. It'll take a bit of getting used to.

All good stuff.
Whoever is announced tomorrow will be a quality player I'm sure.
The excitement created at Trinity since ME took over is incredible.
I would think we will have a team to be proud of next season - no we arent going to win as many games next season as this one but the atmosphere at home games will be hyper I reckon.
I can't remember such hysteria about Trinity since the 1960's it really is that good!

I think you are all playing it down a little and hope the club have slightly more ambition.
When you have ben part of a club with no ambition and very little hope for so long it's easy to lower your expectations.
I honestly believe the club will challenge for the top six

Wouldn’t have Cleary given, he’s always injured . Maybe bob an offer in for Moses

I would like us to be looking at a top line Centre, think with Thornley going, Pratt still very untested at SL level and in my opinion Croft finding his level in the Championship a quality centre is needed as much as any other position.

Anything is a step up compared to last year. I believe ME will be gunning for a playoff spot in the same way Leigh did. Whether that’s achievable is a different story. Either way, it’ll be nice not getting panned most weeks and not worrying about the club going Pete Tong!

Cam Scott? Corey Hall? Seem to be stacked at centre. Don't think Croft makes the cut though.

Top 10-8 and I will be made up.

You have to remember most of our new signings from this year are young, and haven’t played at this level never mind SL level.

The philosophy this year has been to take players out of a part time environment and give them a year in a full time environment to get them up to speed for a potential return to SL.

There are a lot of unknowns in the squad for 2025 even with some of the higher profile signings and lots of them are lads who have been on the fringes of match day 17 with their current squads.

The 2 marquee lads (so far) are very exciting and players we could only dream of signing 12 months ago and obviously bring proven quality to the squad and I am aware that we will have done our homework but we will be running with 2 new halves hopefully a new 9 and maybe even a new 1.

Mr Carter did some very positive things for the club however I used to cringe with some of his comments prior to the season saying he felt we had a real chance of a top 5 finish etc, it probably worked to get a few more few the gate early doors but soon caused probably more to turn away when it was clear that wasn’t going to be the case.

If we can consolidate our position being comfortably out of the bottom 2 plus the improved facilities etc it will be easier to attract players for the next tier of quality. We have our marquee guys but we have had to pay over market value to get them, however they are statement signings.

Cas due to their uncertain position are really struggling to recruit for next year with targets signing elsewhere for less money than Cas are offering because they are worried about the clubs status next year.

The positivity at the club at the moment is fantastic but to keep this momentum up I think it’s also very important for the club to maybe under promise in 2025 and over deliver. 6th or 7th in 2025 would be a remarkable return to SL in my opinion.

8th-10th for me is more realistic and quality play even in defeat, that we will invariably see a lot more of again in 2025, would be a great platform for the club to really kick on to that next level in 2026-2027.