take away the anger of the lastweeks result and this seasons form so far who do you think the club keep from the current squad.for me personaly on this seasons form so far i would keep Kavanagha,flynn,tyrer,finnigan,allen,haggerty junior,varkulis,thackery....kavanagha and flynn not sl experiance but will be good enough tyrer and finnigan have good sl experiance and will be good squad players due to being able to cover many posistions allen and haggerty good grafters and will work hard varkulis has made a big step up to the front row and his doing well and thackery can do well with a good scrum half i have left all the young and widnes born lads out there because they are a shoe in surely.Good times ahead with good investment

They'd be squad players at the very best. I've no doubt whatsoever that the contacts of Terry O'Connor, Betts, Cassidy etc will be working hard to get a good squad of Super League standard. Although there might be a slight Wigan bias in the Widnes team next season having re-read those names!

Craven
Flynn
Thacks
Finnigan
Heckenberg

Having watched your team here at Leigh last Sunday I would have P45's prepared for all your squad and be issuing them now. You might as well play your under 19's and save some cash for next season.
As for Hunslet being a good team: only when compared to yourselves.
On a brighter note I hope you do well next season but think that you may be the whipping boys for the first two years until some decent SL players come out of contract.

No doubt we are going to need at least 10 new players but so would any team in our league going to SL.

That is very true mate.

I would say these and add Kavanagh and Allen if improves, plus some more youngsters like Mullaley,Alex Brown,Gore,Gilmore,Jack Owens etc.I think I,Anson will get better once played a few more games.

Agreed, whats the deal with Mulallys contract at Brisbane?

Contracted to Widnes until the end of 2012 so officially on a season long loan at Brisbane.

Heard tonight ie Friday you are asking Noble for next season.

Should fill your team and present coach with confidence for Thursday.

Never mind you are supporting a Superleague club. I'm not.

I wouldn't be pesamistic about Super League, alot of those players will stay, they're young and can develop....... Just don't sign Chris Hill and Taylor off us You should of gone up 3 years ago anyways!!!

Wouldn't keep Thacks I don't think he's SL quality.

I'd give a chance to

Flynn
Kav
Heck(unless he's quota)
Finnegan
Plus the kids

Possibly

Allen
Tyrer
Varks
Kurt
Scully

I would deffo have a look around top Champ players as well as top class aussies.

On current form and over the past couple of seasons, you'd have to say it can't be many. How many players have we had in the Championship team of the year in recent years? In 2007 we had stand out players like Ollie Wilks, Damian Blanch, Scott Grix. They stood out in this division and have proved since then that they could make the step up. With having so few stand out players now, I don't think you can make a solid claim that many could make the step up. Even experienced players like Finnigan haven't stood out IMO and no reason (at the moment) to think the club would be looking to him to play and do well in SL.

My list would be very much open to change depening on how players go over the next few months, but here's what I'd go with at the mo:

Paddy
Heckenburg
Craven
Plus the most of youngsters like Mullally, Kelly, Lunt, Scott etc.

As a seperate point, I'd get rid of I'Anson, Pickersgill and Ropati tomorrow if we could, with Leuluai on his last chance. Some of the players performances over the past couple of weeks have been so bad, they should count themselves very lucky if they given any game over the coming weeks. As suggested already, the fact we have got the nod now, there's no reason why Betts can't give more chances to the youngsters. IMO there's no point wasting the rest of the season playing players who are not going to get given a SL contract.