It makes no difference having just moved here for him to be de-registered. All it does is take him off the cap for the year. He still gets his money as he is legally entitled to if I think that's where your thinking has gone towards.

A shame for Watts but Phelps to 6 seems a fair bet when he finally gets here having had some spells there at Wigan.

A shame really that two of our most natural replacements of our own in Gore and Tom Gilmore have been so unlucky with injury and illness as it may have been nice to throw one in. Not alot else to lose at the moment in what must rank as the ultimate 'worst case scenario' start to a season.

Hopefully Briscoe is back for this week and then Craven can push into the halves and White back to an interchange hooker. If he isn't then go with the same and give Jack Owens his SL debut.

Things really are getting tough at the moment.

I thought that de-registering a player just affected the O/S quota, by allowing you to fill the extra O/S quota spot gained by doing so, but didn’t allow you to wipe his wages from the Salary Cap?

I don't think we are anywhere near the SC anyway though.

When we de-registered Hulse that was to free up salary cap space IIRC.

I suppose it would make sense then. I had hoped that we were nowhere near the S/C though. But, if we need to de-register players to reduce it, we must be.

Seems as though Cullen and Betts have taken my advice.

I believe Gareth will be joining up with you soon.

We always knew you'd come good in the end John