Also Salford play Mellor at nine, then I think Shorrocks comes on, or sometimes the ex rovers half “ forgot his name” comes in at nine, in other words Salford, unlike us, do not have to play their young kids in great abundance like we do.

I suspect we are going to try and sign Byrne on the 1st December for the 2026 season, if that happens, think there is a chance he comes early, Wigan have a vast array of props, and could easily release him and promote from within. I doubt Wigan would be able to match the kind of money we could offer him for a 3 year deal.

They have Hill, Harvard, Mago, Dupree and Thompson, who would all get into most SL sides, add in Eseh and a couple of other lads they will have coming through, I think there is a good chance we can get Byrne for 2026, if not 2025.

It really does annoy me that as a club we continually pay players off without a replacement agreed.

No matter peoples thoughts on Pele, he was better than Gardner and we would’ve probably won more games with pele in our side. Last year we let 3 quota players leave and only really brough Jed in to replace them (King for one game).

This year we’ve paid off 3 and by the looks of it with no replacement lined up. Walker has no club to go to, why not let him train with us and look for a new club.

If he finds a new club we let him go, if, god forbid, Rapana or Moy go down with a long term injury we can keep him for the season.

All we seem to do is close one door without having another ready to walk through.

Should we lose Moy & Rapana. The option would be to use Hardaker but currently Litten is out so we then have to use someone like lane or Roman Dawson (who isn’t ready yet IMO)

You can make that argument for pretty much every position on the field.
Besides the 3 players being released have already been replaced. Rapana has replaced Walker, Cust has replaced Smith and Tindall was effectively replaced by Briscoe last year.

Can't keep someone on Walkers wage as 3rd choice, even as backup its not worth it, we have to do better with our cap management.

Last year, we did give up, but Pele was righly released, poor attitude, had to move those type of people out of the club.

Also isn't it still the case that if a player plays 1minute they count on the cap. I seem to remember we got stung years ago for Andy Last playing a game and then his coaching wage counted on the cap and took us over.

So paying some to be backup is pointless if you then can't actually play them in an emergency.