I'm suddenly starting to get a bit worried.

Is it Chester? Have they seen enough of him they want to get away?

Is cancelling the Tenerife trip such a good thing in hindsight?

Do they do refunds on season passes?


Roll on February

If Costigan goes to Brisbane it will confirm that Bennett is officially senile.
At Newcastle he got rid of a heap of young guys and filled the roster with guys on the wrong side of 30 who were once great.
So far at Brisbane he has got rid of 3 or 4 great young prospects to make way for old favourites, and he is mostly got rid of props.
Costigan has had a great career, but he must be ready to retire now.
If he pops up at Brisbane, Bennett's 1.4 million dollar paycheck looks like the worst investment in RL history.

so roopy who is availble over in aus forward wise for kr to sign

Newcastle can't find any props.
Bennett let Hannet, Kennedy and another go from Brisbane and they all got snapped up.
We got young Jack Stockwell from Saints.
I hear Merrin from Saints is on the market for $800k a season - and he might get it in the current market. In the last few days old Willie Mason, Richie Faaoso and even Danny Wicks have got contracts.

Look like. Fui Fui Moi Moi at 35 looks a good prospect

He doesn't even look good in reserve grade these days.

There were fears that Weyman might stay in Aussie but apparently he is returning to Hull Kr next season.

the broncos were over or close to the salary cap though for next season, release younger players who probably would have salaries raised over the next few seasons and bring in over the hill players at a cheaper rate to fill the roster!

I will just have a quick look at the clubs accounts and get back to you. Give me 10 minutes.

I don't think it's finances, The overseas trip was a natural reaction to idea the team was 'too soft', it was one Radford did last year, whether its the right call or not I don't know.
There has obviously been a real drive by CC to change the culture of the club and maybe that has made the oldr heads think twice about whether they want to dig deep enough at there age. Costigan struggled preseason last year so maybe he's just thought I've had enough.
I wonder how much Stan going has affected Costigans decision. I can imagine he played a big part in getting him here.

All this has been coupled with the likes of having to lose the likes of Langley, Poore, D.Hodgeson and to a lesser extent Netherton who where all injured or had to retire.

Looking at ins and outs on a player for player basis they look like they will demand a similar salary, I suppose time will tell if we get like for likes in for the remaining spaces.

Whilst typing all that it does make me notice how poor a state we'd got into under CS, if you list the outs from this year there are probably only a couple who'd we would have really wanted to stay.

Totally agree with you.

Looking at the 'outs' there are adequate reasons for letting go or not renewing a significant number of those players.

Without a doubt it is a wholesale change of massive proportions but looking at the INs I do feel there is quality (not quantity), although I fear we might have to resort to quantity (not quality) to fill in the gaps considering the current players market.

The clubs finances are very good; they will operate at the top end of the SC, so no need for you to be concerned.

The off season wouldn't be the off season if there wasn't a few FC fans questioning our financial state. It's the law.

In serious need of some grunt now, we are looking very thin on the ground regarding lads who will do the horrible stuff, our back line looks exciting and superior to last year but if we cant get on the front foot we could be in bother. 3 props and a 9 for me.