34 games over 5 years, the blokes 22. Still a baby in terms of rugby. He’s also played 28 NRL games in the last 3 years and I believe played every game for the tigers this year. Just picking stats to suit a narrative.

He could be on 180k a year but it doesn’t really matter if the west tigers are paying 100K of that.

Satae staying with Les Dragons according to L’Indépendant for next year .

It’s been pretty much confirmed as not happening anyway but no way are the reported wages out of line with what others
are likely earning in SL. I don’t know what he’s on at Huddersfield but Clune (Our number one 7 target last season) only played a similar amount of games and is a fair bit older. Aussies command a decent wage to come here, and if you don’t pay you miss out. It’s not a million miles away from the reported wages of Trueman and Abdull. If a SL club does eventually pick up Sullivan I think it will be a good move.

Ignore him, he's a Rovers fan pretending to be a Hull fan, thinks he has the inside track and knows how much we are paying every player and who are the marquee players.

Only comes on here to tell us how much players are earning and puts a negative slant on it.

Not massively bothered about Satae, not sure we need another quota prop.

I'd still try and release Pele and go with Ese Ese, Sao, Ashworth, Fash, Aydin and maybe try for one more domestic prop. Gardiner, Laidlaw and Wainhouse as back up.

Sao, Ese Ese, Stewart, Asiata, Cartwright plus a hooker and centre.

Wonder if Whitehead or Bateman are still a possibility, gone quiet on these.

I reckon Cartwright will be class for Pele. Big on fitness which is what is holding him back. I’d be inclined to give him a second year which is brave considering it’s a quota spot. Think we definitely need another prop.

If Gardner comes anywhere near our 17 man squad next year we’ve got something wrong. He’ll be class in the championship I think as he’s pretty rounded. Just no parts of his game are good enough for SL.

With Sutty going, wonder who will be in the centres

Stewart and Cartwright In for the rest of the season

Maybe he saw that Cartwright is big on fitness and changed his mind.

Think our 5 props are good enough, probably need one more for depth. I'd definitely make an enquiry for Chan, even if on a lone year loan deal.

Stewart could be great for us. Goodbye, Wakka?

Unless we were releasing one of Sao, Pele or perish the thought Ese'ese then I really don't see what the point of signing Satae would be if he were available as we already have enough quota spots tied up and need quality elsewhere particularly at 9, back row and centre and even a half as have reservations of going with Trueman/Abdul as first choice halves purely on fitness/injury records.

I'd definitely look to release Okunbor who sadly just doesn't look anywhere near good enough, even more so when taking a quota spot. I'd give Pele a pre season under Cartwright who seems to be a stickler on fitness and training hard which is what Pele seems to be in need of.

If we keep Pele, that's one quota spot and we are desperate for a centre and hooker, think that's more important than a prop, particularly when we have 5 decent ones and Pele is a massive risk

He wanted out so I wonder if he said something out of turn and that’s why he got dropped. Or radically, could Stewart play centre for us? (This season or beyond)

Walker will be going, he will be a good salary and currently can't get in the worst Hull FC in years.

Think the writing is on the wall.

We might not have a lot of wriggle room with quota spots for next season anyway as according to the HDM article it seems to say Cartwright and Stewart are signed up for this season and beyond unless I’m interpreting that wrong.

If so they replace Hoy and Brown, Asiata will replace Carlos so to bring in another quota player we’d have to pay off either Okunbor, Sau or Pele.