It can't be that hard to find players in oz willing to come over and who would improve us. There must be literally 100's of them with so many teams and players over there. salford and leigh have done very well bringing over lesser known players.

I had hoped cartwright would have sorted out a couple of gems for us but seemingly not

I absolutely agree that a decent halfback pairing is key and will make or break the team for next year.
The overall quality in SL feels like its at an all time low and if you get the key positions right then breaking into 6th isn't a massive stretch over the next couple of years.

Just making the point that it's not necessarily as easy as waving a bunch of cash in someone's face.

Always said Jake we are just not proactive enough in the recruitment area
So far its just very lazy what Myler has done

How do you have the faintest clue what Myler has or hasn't done?

Dont think it matters what price the club end up selling passes because if the club dont pull out two or three quality signings they will be lucky to sell 5000
Apathy has hit the fans big time and if Saturdays attendance was a true relection of how many were in the ground it would be about 7000

Apart from Asiata all the players he has signed are bang average and in my mind very lazy recruitment.
Like others you could say that they were the only players available but how do you know?
Have you seen the arrival of a quality halfback as its a year since Clifford departed NO
Have you seen the arrival of a quality centre NO
Have you seen the arrival of a big mobile forward eirther front row or second row NO
The fact that it seems that he has passed the buck now onto Cartwright to find us players i dont think he has done very much positive recruitment at all

Are we just ignoring the signing of Abdull and Jed Cartwright then?

That article feels like it's laying the ground for us to an accept that it'll be a Cust and Abdul pairing in 2025

Haven't they already put up he monthly cost? Unlikely they'll do that and not put up the annual

There's definitely an argument to made that his recruitment thus far has been unsuccessful, especially if its measured against an aim of being a top 6 side next year. Perhaps less so if you reduce those aims slightly.

It's just the lazy comment I found odd, for all we know he has been solidly working 12 hours day contacting every agent in the southern hemisphere but to little avail or he might have been getting unreal scores on Minesweeper and just ringing a couple of blokes in Leigh instead. We have no way of knowing.

IS RECRUITMENT FINISHED? NO!

I’m sure the part about Truman leaving wasn’t in the original article then edited in a couple of hours later,which seems a bit odd

No it wasn't. That's why I asked where it was. It was purely about the half back situation without Trueman in it.

Very strange.

So at the minute we were promised 3 marquee players by Pearson.

As if yet only one for next year

asiata and abdul. I'm not worried about how many marquee signings we have, more the quality of player. No point throwing marquee money at the wrong player

But quality players usually get marquee money.

I'll be surprised if Abdull is a marquee.

Wakey have a big announcement at 7 tonight. Wonder if it's trueman after the article got edited.