Well if the fans see us do next seasons recuitment on the cheap i suspect the pitchforks will be out for pearson

Adam will be tapping into Grix to see what we can get from the bargain basement of the championship.

Personally I'd be disappointed, IF we used a marquee slot on a winger.
We need, 7, 9 & 3 -IMO

Davies wouldn't have been marquee money surely, high paid but marquee, he'd have been an ideal signing to replace McIntosh for next year

I would imagine McIntosh will get a contract extension.

Its a case or where do you start as weve some glaring needs such as a number 7 a looseforward and a new hooker.

On the other hand we have alot of average players that we need upgrades on, id say Mcintosh is one.

Id release him personally and let Lewis Martin come through, Barron looked alot better on his last outing alot stronger, we also have Litten as wing cover, think the Mcintosh wage can be put to better use elsewhere.

I wonder if Hull will have the same policy this year as last year, i.e. leave any annoucements until much later in the year.

Ese'ese was the first confirmed IIRC and that was mid August. Contrast that to Rovers. I think they have the right idea. Two good signings if they confirm Davies and it generates a feel good factor for the fanbase. I could cope more easily with another mediocre season if I knew now that we had top replacements announced for Houghton and Tuimavave.

id be happy if they announced they had a top class 7 signed for next season,we are missing one badly

When it is announced I'm not that concerned about. What bothers me is that we leave it too late and all our targets are snapped up and we are scrambling around for a replacement and end up with a hooker who can fill in at at scrum half when we have injuries.

yes,we need to be looking now,late last summer,hull went from looking for a 7 to about to sign a spine player.in other words we had left it to late for a good 7.

i could never see the point of signing both morgan smith and nu brown.1 of them fair enough,but both.no.

Let’s face it we won’t sign anyone of note. We will get beaten to the punch on anyone that’s worth having. We will just get what’s left. Harsh but true.

There's not much in the UK player pool as it is so when when you see clubs already signing quality players for next season. I does make you wonder who can we target for next season.

If we'd have paid the 250k fee for croft and Ackers, Pearson could have potentially made that back if it encouraged an extra 1000 fans to go to each game if we were playing better rugby (25 * 1000 * 13 is 325k), I've always thought it's a false economy doing things on the cheap as you end up losing revenue when fans don't turn up to games and buy merchandise, don't have prize money from finals etc

Less 50% to the SMC, leaves £162,500 so realistically you’d have to attract nearly 2,000 more fans to make a profit and I don’t think that’s going to happen especially if the Covid loan is £500k.