Priority for me would be Manu, Moa, Ogre. Would love all to stay but can't see that.

O'meley's stats are much better than moa's. More metres (total and average per carry), more carries and more tackles, including a lot of work from marker, less missed tackles, more offloads, less penalties. I think people are a bit premature in writing o'meley off

Moa has a lot of years left in him though,

O'Meley has about 2 at the most

I agree for me at minute O'Meley is a better prop one advantage moa does have is his age would love to see both stay but cant see it.

Isn't Manu's family all over this side and settled with kids at school? I hope Sam stays but if he wants to go back to his family I wouldn't blame him.

I think that it's great that Moa has decided to see out all of his contract, rather than quitting midway through and leaving his team in the lurch ala Tronc, Eastwood, etc.

I'd love for him to stay but I can completely understand if he wants to move back to be around his family.
If we could keep him for 1 or 2 more years on the same wages, not an increase, then I'd like O'Meley to stay. I think the influence of props like him and Lynch will be great for the development of our young props like Bowden and Green.

Moa is a must to try and keep hold of, best impact prop in the league.

Agreed. Ogre has been back to his best this season.

I would not keep Moa, alot better props available and he takes up a valualble quota place and he is on on a decent salary. I would keep O'Meley and put Ticklle to prop for a 20-30 minute stint and have Bawden as cover.

We could use the extra cash to get a a quality winger and Centre to replace Sharp / Turner / Martin and use Crooks as back up.
I an confident Gentle will do this

Why would we want to lose Sharp?

Not a fan of Tickle moving to prop either.

Potentially good news. Out of him and Ogre its a tough choice. Ogre is a better player but does not have long left in the game and would be more expensive.

I can see us needing to free Ogres money up.

Well I'm glad you're not in charge of recruitment is my response to that.

Assuming one of Moa and O'Meley stays I would be happy to push Tickle into the front row and have Bowden as 5th prop. If they both go then we will need a replacement. Otherwise I'd say a top class centre is our only major target along with some promising younger players (like when we got Jamie Ellis).

I'm really pleased with the squad as it is and I think we are good enough for top 4 this season. Next season we dont need to overhaul everything to continue progressing imo.

Indeed - the kid is unrecognisable from the player we were watching, head in hands many a time, last year.

That is exactly what is happening. O`meley is going to free up cap space . He is one of our top earners.

Who's to say we won't renegotiate O'Meleys contract?

Now we have a owner with a few more ideas we may even give one of our ooc players a 60k bonus this year and a lesser contract next.