We'll take him back, your club obviously don't need him.

To be honest not sure with Taylor but he looked to struggle after making a tackle in the opening 5 mins at Newcastle so maybe took a knock and is being rested to allowing time to recover.

First sub 10K crowd on Friday?

Little away support, don't see many walk ins and quite a few gone to Spain already.

Rawsthorne and Talanoa play one game each this weekend, I thought we couldn't play anymore youngsters due to the cap?

That's what a players Dad was telling people. Who knows, would be good to see him play though.

It's only the top 25 earners at the club who count on the cap, so perhaps Rawsthorne doesn't count towards it?

that's probably bang on

Would imagine a few don't count. Jack Wray might be worth a shout for a run out especially with Connor apparently carrying that hand injury.

radford said we'd had to send abdul, naughton and hadley out on loan due to the salary cap

That we had backloaded contracts last year so we could squeeze the whole squad in is having an effect this, that and AP was clearly not going to spend full whack on a marquee player for this and probably next also. When you hear Radford making a particular point to mention that the club only just broke even last year despite the CC win and the Bulldogs paying much of Pritchard's salary I think that came/comes as no surprise.

As previously mentioned I think we have a better balanced squad this year however. Connor is certainly offering more than Yeaman (& Griffin at moment in time), young forwards are having a chance to shine/more responsibility on Green/Thompson/Washbrook (as would be Hadley if he were playing)

Pritchard whilst he did have impact at times put more pressure on other players because he simply wasn't doing long enough stints, he also was hugely behind others like Thompson in the tackling stats, again that put pressure on other players to take up his slack during a game.

Should have plenty enough to see off Leigh but the mental attitude/preparation has to be so much better than against Saints. This is were were are falling down the most as it's clear we have the talent.

You mean like the Academy we tried to run , but got sick of having to cancel matches because the RFL refused to let us join the SL comp ?

That one ?

As you well know , you get 1 st pick of the juniors in your area , we don't , we've had players on our scholarship like Joe Burgess and Tommy Makinson , can we retain them ? No , so we were constantly try to make silk purses out of ( no disrespect ) sows ears

my heart bleeds.....really it does. Poor Gateshead Thunder.....you LUCKY SODS

If only Leigh had some fans.

And the few they do have are a really obnoxious bunch. I'd almost rather have Rovers back.

Not fair that. I was impressed with how friendly they were when we visited their place. That and they have a much better ground are only 2 (of many) reasons that I'd rather they stayed in SL at the dobbins expense.