Think Chadwick was doing a solid job until Hope rocked up- slow affordable progress. Although it was good fun for half a season, this short period of indulging Hope's ego has left the club in a very precarious position. I also seem to remember that last years board of directors resisted Hope's advances last season, but felt they had no choice for this season- may be they were worried it may all end up like this.

Even if a few of the luxury players were off-loaded, I get the feeling a lot of the 'squad' players had their wages bumped up by Hope compared to what they were previously on. The consolation that can be taken from the situation is the Leeds game- a second string was put out there, and that team would be competitive in Champ 1.

Can see Hemmingway & Ballard going soon as would imagine they are on big wages & can get a club elsewhere pretty easily. I would say that Hobson would go as well, but he is facing a long suspension, so no other club will want him in the short term. Would like to keep hold of Ainscough as he is awesome, but again can imagine a number of clubs will be after him and we won't be able to afford his wages. No idea what we will do with Marsh & Best as we have yet to see much of them this year, but obviously have been paying them. Halliwell can go tomorrow as far as i'm concerned. Hope we can keep Holland on as I can't imagine that he was paid much at Wigan before he came across permanently.

Perhaps the Wigan dual-reg players will stay on which will provide a strong backbone to the team during the re-shuffle of players that will happen between now and the end of the season. I would imagine MC is leaving as isn't he now full-time and obviously the club will not be able to afford to keep him in a job after the end of the season.

Considering the above, some of the rest may stay on for the rest of the season as there is still a good chance we can stay in the play-offs and perhaps even get promotion.

Very few players at this level are on any sort of serious contract, so even those that were contracted aren't going to be likely to get the same money anywhere else in CC1.

If we can revert to the sort of match terms on offer last season I suspect a good number of the players will stay, as they won't get better terms anywhere else.

Those contracted on OTT money (by CC1 standards) though will undoubtedly look to get fixed up elsewhere, which isn't a surprise. Let's face it, the only reason players such as Hemingway, Ballard etc were attracted to Panthers was because of the contracted terms offered, they will soon be back in the Championship I'd have thought.

We'll just have to wait and see but I do expect we'll have a slightly different looking team on Sunday.

Dont know the ins and outs so i guess it lets wait and see. Think MC has been a big influence on attracting players so maybe that should be our main concern at the moment and to keep the club afloat and running. Not long left to go in the season so lets see what we can achieve then hope the club come up with a good business plan to run the club within its means.

Bobby was at Leigh when we almost went to the wall years back and had to sell hilton park to survive. The man's bad news. I hope you guys sort things out, RL needs Blackpool.

thanks pal

Good luck to you all , it`s bad news indeed.Why don`t you post info about your games on all sites ,I am sure you would get some of the rugby league family attending if their own club hasn`t got a game.It`s a good day out at Blackpool and we havn`t a home game for a month you have nothing to lose.