Briscoe thought he was worth more than what he was and a certain Mr Cooke.

Agree with that. Hopefully Manu will chose to re-sign even if another club offers more money.

Aye, but Carvell hasn't done too badly out of jumping ship for the money.

TBF I think the 2 cases are more than a tad different. Briscoe gambled (or backed himself, depending upon how you look at it) on being picked for GB and then missed out when he probably would have stayed with the original offer after all. You can't really blame the lad for waiting a couple of months with what will have looked like a strong chance of a pay increase on the line.

IMO our old wage structure of rewarding representative honours over the player's value to the team was madness.

You mean less money ?

Cookes career spiralled down and out but Briscoe got a very good 4 years from Rovers. Not entirely bad when you look at how both clubs performed over those 4 years.

I'd love for Manu to stay as there isn't really another player like him in SL (except for Puletua, as Mrs B pointed out). However, if he did leave for more money - and you couldn't really blame him as it will be his last contract - it wouldn't be the end of the world as we would still have Ellis, Tickle, Westerman, Whiting, maybe Aspinwall, as well as Kent coming through who looks good.

Hull cant afford to lose O'meley, moa and manu in 1 season whether they signed ellis or not

I think his point was that they both peaked at Hull FC, both in terms of personal form and team results.

that was my thinking too but understand what he meant

Who's to say any of them will leave?

This is why there is little point is placing reliance on message forums.

No where has it stated that those three players are definately leaving.

Will all three stay? unlikely given the emergence of Bowden and the signing of Pitts / Ellis.

But people stressing out about it is largely pointless. Wait until the club or player formally announces something.

That depends very much on who they're replaced with. Ellis is at least as good as Manu, so no worries there. If Moa and O'Meley are replaced with players of equal or better quality, there'll be no cause for concern whatsoever.

thats it close the forum we got nowt to talk about

Expect a 2 year deal with an option of a third based on a percentage of games played by steamboat willie all in the clubs favour to be announced when it best suits the club, not the fans.

All this rather have Manu talk is rubbish. Ellis is by quite a distance the better player.