According to a poster on the Cas forum

Ryan Brierley - Hull FC bound.

Don't know too much about him, except he is a young FB or Halfback.

Puzzles are such fun - and a decent marketing tool, I'd guess.

The 7 definately won't include Watts and Pitts. I'd be very surprised if it included Arundel. McGoldrick is a possibility, albeit not a very clever one - possibly one of the ongoing ones? I'd be very surprised if Crookes [iisn't[/i one of them.

The curiosity for me is what'll happen with Seymour if/when Holdsworth and Chase are confirmed. He's not going to be easy to shift. I'm all for depth, but even so.

I would have thought these were all new sinings, no point teling us about the ones we already know.

If we are signing new half backs, I would have thought Seymour's future is already sorted away from Hull FC.

Agreed, but unless the wheels have been oiled with a big pile of cash, how? Even then, [iprecisely[/i how? Straight pay-off or as negative equity on a transfer, perhaps - 'we'll give you more for Holdsworth if you take Seymour as well'? It'd have to be a deal and destination that appealed to the player himself.

Spoke to a lad from Cas last night who reckons he will probably go to Salford or Leigh as that's where he's from. Reckons he's quick and skillfull but didn't stand out in preseason friendlies.

I'll drink to that

djb2708 on twitter seems to have good inside info, he says the release has already been agreed. We shall see.

I'm trying to set my expectations low so as not to be disappointed. Just getting Chase (with the already known players) would make us a vastly improved team, I really hope we sort his visa and if we can't he gets deported, if he can't work for us he shouldn't be able to work for Cas either!

I still see get Bateman either, if we had agreed a fee with Bradford then we can announce it. Why not drop that name in the season ticket brochure to get everyone's juices flowing ? Or an NRL name, start drip feeding them to work us up into a frenzy!

I think Bateman is one of the players that's not quite done but believe he has chosen to sign for us. I think AP wants maximum exposure hence announcing them all on one day.

I am intrigues as to how they will make the announcements, one big statement. Announce them one at a time. Should be interesting!

Remember when we released the squad numbers (IIRC) one at a time on Facebook? There was nearly a riot.

all on the same day to me, if they were annonced one at a time some would probably get less exposure as to say we signed chase the day after we annonced we signed someone like amour

hope am sat on the toilet when there announced,in case i get to exited lol

See the RFL have changed to anti-tampering deadline to May from next year, certainly seems a good call to me, stupid having it set to September imo.

Moa to Roosters has been confirmed by the club now.

If Tickle goes as expected am I right in saying Tom Briscoe would be the only major distraction ? Hopefully that can get sorted out early but I have a feeling it might not,especially if Tom wants to go to the NRL, would he get a contract sorted that early ?