Think the crucial point is:

Would a top 4 team offer Tickle a deal in a similar ball-park to the one we are offering?

If the answer is no (as I suspect it is) then we shouldn't be offering him such a deal.

In our situation, it would be reasonable to overpay for a half-back, but not for a 30 year old second row.

Pretty much sums it up for me.

Fantastic goalkicker and solid in attack but prone to the odd lapse in defence.

Others can do just as good a job.

If there's only tickle, galea and briscoe not signed for next season then we won;t see massive additions to the squad. The seymour situation is complicated as teh club need to be seen to be supporting him so may make t difficult to replace him as I suspect was the plan

Don't forget OMeley going as well. Assuming we are not at full cap i can maybe see 3 players comimg in incl. a decent 7. Again, this does not include the seymour situation. Lets hope we can find the right players to complete the jigsaw. I honestly think we are not too far off and hopefully the next 4 games will show us!

Great goalkicker good player on his day but Hulls most penalised player in each and every season that hes played for the club so needs to be able to make up for the points/penalties he gives away by been able to kick