Matt Shaw saying Wire romured be after Liam Knight. 

He'll get another SL deal easy.

I get the impression that should we be able to find a way to keep him then he would choose to stay rather than sign elsewhere. He appears to be loving his time here. Unless Wire offer money that he just can't refuse.

Clubs are having a meeting next week about the quota numbers for next season. I guess the club will know whether they can keep Knight not to long after.this. 

Mates with the Burgess family.

I was told the club are fairly confident Bell will be off quota next season. Cartwright wants Knight here next season and Knight is keen to stay. So think as long as the quota situation is resolved it?s likely he?ll be here next season. 


Re the quota system I think it?s something the game here has to go with to open up the player pool numbers. However what also needs to addressed on the back of it is youth development & academies as part of the SL requirement. 
The quota change shouldn?t be seen as a permanent one more a bit of a temporary arrangement until the home grown player pool has grown sufficiently. 

I've said for a while, any players developed through your own academy should only have half their salary count on the cap. It would give clubs (especially ones that neglect their youth system) incentive to develop players internally and therefore increase the player pool.

I wonder who won't be staying. If we keep Knight then that's Bell, Bailey and batchelor on top of pryce. Seems likely a fair chunk of salary there.  Surely we can't be that much under?


Lane going we know, maybe it's ashworth or Knight? Briscoe also ooc 

Batchelor ourpt for 2 months with a bad hamstring tear

Or another example of Shaw putting out a negative piece on FC?

Maybe not over paying players help too...still have cap space for this season 

Wouldn't be surprised if Lane takes up a fair chuck of cap space, he's the last remaining player along with Ligi of the era of handing out crazy deals, Pryce I assume will be marquee. 

Think what we've seen under Myler is that the cap management has been much improved and how bad it was prior to his arrival. Think when you look at the squads of the top teams over the last few years in terms of quality and depth and they were under cap, then you look at ours over the same periods we should not have been any where near the full cap.  


So not sure we'd need to see many departures in that sense, plus the likely departures of Holmes, Ligi, Watts etc at the end of the season.