I think Hyde will stay as well meaning he could play in the halves with Moore and Wildie playing at hooker.

Paul Johnson will certainly get a Super league contract.

To be fair (or unfair?) this has been the scenario throughout our Super League life, if not before. When Nigel Wright, Gaz Ellis even Poching were enticed away we were all similarly gutted. Maybe this could be the last assett stripping before we start afresh.

You could well be right but I think it will hurt more this time because with the change of ownership we all thought the stripping of our assets were over. I am not blaming Glover for this because his hands are tied until after the 26th.

They can plan, but we have contracts!

And we all know what they mean these days!

Anyway i'm sure they'll be a relegation clause in there somewhere, there usually is.

No - they have contracts for both divisions.

I had a share certificate for the club but it didn't do me any good

Good. Lets hope they don't become 'unsettled' at the end of the month then.

If their contracts are valid for both divisions then even if they become unsettled then we will be able to command a fee for them.

Yep which is better than them leaving for nothing. But its not the money angle thats bothering me here, its the fact that contract or not they will probably end up leaving anyway or we will have unhappy players on our hands thanks to the actions of their agents. And its the way the uncertainty over franchising is allowing my club to be raped and pillaged and we can do little about it. I've had enough of the game and how its run and the likehood of me continuing to support the game after this season is diminishing rapidly, whatever division we are in.

Didn't Andrew Glover publicly state the "No more players will be leaving"

He said words to the effect that we didn't need to sell players anymore and wouldn't be vulnerable to this type of raid ever again.

We have to be ruthless here and nobody can leave until the 26th if we stay in the league then we will be ok and we can build ! Shudds are vultures I hate them they steel all our players and we still beat them. RFL need to stop this is a F*cking joke for god sake. 26th is d day we can build from there once we stay in the league !Which we will !!!

If they are out of contract there is not a lot that we can do about it.