Mini and Ellis are fast approaching the end of their careers. I don't think we could cope with them both going at the same time. We would lose too much experience and leadership in one go. Their departures need to be managed. Personally I would give Mini another year because he is fitter and we get more game time out of him than Ellis, who is increasingly injury prone and who we should let go at the end of this season.

Totally agree. Mini running like he does at tired defences, whilst himself staying fairly fresh for his stints in defence sounds ideal to me. I think he still has another year in him after this one, and not to forget we have a very good, relatively young 2nd rower ready made to step in and cement a starting spot for us in Dean Hadley IMO (not to mention the emergence of Fash & Turgut who've really impressed this year).

mini hasn't reached his previous high standards this season IMO. His defence has always been a bit suspect but he's less effective with ball in hand so far this season but may be how he's being played

I love to sign Mcgillvary, but would cost about 100k, no way will Pearson pay a transfer, particularly with the cap increase next year which will cost him.

How is our average crowd looking and comparing to last season, must be doing ok from away ticket sales as well?

I'll put £100 in. Who's with me?

Average game on game we are 1,429 up on last season (regular season fixtures). Leeds was almost 5,000 up, Cas and Catalans over 2,000 up. Only Salford was down (1,249) although last season's fixture was the opening game with a 'friend for a fiver' deal.

Looks like Fonua is nailed on leaving. Shame but not totally surprising.
Can see Michaels ending up at somewhere like Widnes.
The interesting one for me is if we offer Thompson a new deal.

I suppose game for game, it will go down a bit when you compare the Leigh and Rovers home games.

The away ticket money should make up for that loss though.

It may depend on what happens with Hadley, but if he comes back then I think Thompson will leave, I think it's the right decision when you look at the recent performances of Fash, Turgut and Thompson.

Not only are the youngsters outperforming him they offer much more value for money, is doubt Thompson will be on peanuts as he was a highly rated youngster when he signed.

As said I'd put Griffin on the wing if Fonua does leave. Don't see the point in signing BJB even if both Fonua and Michaels leave.

Thompsons definitely going. Will be an interesting off season with ins and outs. Westerman has offered to pay the extra £40k that Hull and Warrington can't agree on.

Griffin is a Radford type winger, so could easily see him playing there.
Could BJB also play centre to offer cover, or would we see him primarily as a winger?
I can also see Thompson leaving. Turgut will be a star, you can just see it.
Very interesting about Westerman though!

Have we also offered £40K to Wire to keep Lineham?

BJB was a fullback as a bain wasn't he? For the right price he'd be a good addition and probably see us as a chance to win things (no disrespect to Wakey). We won't ever replace Fonua directly but there are other strong wingers out there who can put in the hard yards up the middle, maybe we could bring Tom Briscoe home .

I can see Thommo ending up at Wire or Widnes. He has flashes of brilliance but not consistent enough. Wire were after him last year weren't they?

What does the Westerman £40k thing mean ? Are Wire after Thomson ? Or does Joe want to come back here ??

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