It's a shame but if we use his wage money wisely it can be turned into a good thing.
Not the best time to be changing the team around but hopefully Agar has been preparing for this for a while now.

A gamble as no pre season games played but Keinhorst at centre as Briscoe will probably be at 5 instead of Lynne IMHO.

Struggling RL club to struggling RU club where he didn't adapt well last time when he played for Wasps. It's got to be about the money for Lee Smith rather than career progression.

The rumours of Smith leaving started last year so hopefully he won't have been included as a key player in the season's preparations. Bit of an annoyance that he's pick up his salary over the off season when its seems he's been set to leave for the majority of it.

Craig Hall perhaps

MC said in the radio Leeds interview that depending on if a player left we could have another 3 maybe 4 players come in, didn't he? What size wage must LS have been on??

can't Keinhorst, Lynne and Briscoe cover centre? and isn't Kirmo a centre/second row?

not seen your full squad of late to be sure, but money would be better spent covering other areas, possibly?

Good luck Lee thanks for your efforts

Lee Smith resigned BEFORE the rest of the BoD and Agar found out about the financial troubles. Our former CEO was still playing Monopoly when he agreed to the wages so it's likely to have been a larger amount than we might have otherwise expected.

The first three you mention would be the likely ones to compete for that centre spot alongside Collis. Kirmond is a second row and hasn't played centre for over a year to my knowledge. Mariano did well at centre last year but he went over to the dark side unfortunately.
Need a stand off so hopefully Siejka will be on his way and there is money for him now..Sykes injury prone last year and is 33/34 and not got the pace of 5/6 years ago IMHO.

Another strong running proven specialist try scoring winger like Shaun Ainscough or Will Sharpe would be good with competition/cover for injuries also from Fox, Lynne and Briscoe. An extra bit of zip and biff out wide now Cockayne has gone would be good.

R.A. mentioned a few weeks ago that he'd like to bring in one more senior front rower as I think he'd like Tautai in the second row to utilise his pace out wide rather than as a prop.....Not a fan but Keith Mason now looking for a club via a Hull RLFC press release? Hull happy with Carvell....

Didn't Keith Mason go into acting?

Who is our kicker for next year?

Paul Sykes.

Of course I forgot about him. Any other useful back up kickers?