I see we’ve signed a young prop on loan from Warrington for a month.

It set me thinking about the loan signings we’ve made since our first promotion to SL. It is quite a list.

In all that time, have we ever loaned out a player to a SL club? Maybe i’m having a brain fade and there are one or more obvious examples i’m forgetting - but I can’t think of any. Actually, scratch that - I think we sent Jordan Cox to Huddersfield at one point. Any others?

Really annoyed that Sheens has effectively forced Atkin out by not playing him. Still youngish and improving.

Wonder whole will partner Abdul (and I'll be disappointed again if it's Drinkwater).

Paper talk but they say we after is partner at Salford that if it comes of could be a good move both know each other

Even with non-fed spots, you’re looking at fringe NRL players nowadays.

If we ended up with Masoe, Garbutt, Parcell, Quinlan, Drinkwater, Linnett and Hauraki that’d be a decent enough set of seven. Vaivai is contracted for 2020 though.

We haven’t offered Shaw a new contract either, but I assume that we’ll be looking for at least one of Dagger, Oakes or Wallis to get more game time. Plus there’s the rumour about Ethan Ryan.

It’s a challenge, but it’s the same for most clubs. The additional problems we have are consistently failing to produce anywhere near enough SL-standard players (hopefully that’ll change, but we’ve been hoping for the best part of a decade) and we’ve not finished higher than 8th in SL since 2011 and not higher than 10th since 2014. I doubt we’ll snap those streaks this year. That must harm our image with potential recruits.

We’ve loaned out a player to a SL team again!

Lannon to Salford with Daniel Murray coming the other way.

I think this suits both teams we’ve brought in 2 SRs and a prop and loaned a SR out

Harvey Livett now

Really pleased to get Livett on board - a quality young player. Hopefully sign him with chances limited at wire, never know.

A prop, a backrower and a quality utility loaned in gives us a good bit of depth for the next month at least which is good.
Regarding future signings theres not many real quality players available is there, unless you bring in a Marquee signing. So for us it'll probably be like for like as said above but hopefully better coaching than weve had for a few years though.

Livett is a really good bit of business for you. Real tidy player who can cover a number of positions. I'm surprised his game time at Warrington has been so limited.

I agree, very good signing, if Warrington are looking at releasing/selling him, I'd have him at Hull, good player, with lots of potential.

Warrington must be in very healthy state to be loaning out him and the other young lad.

I think Dean Hadley could do really well with you. Was really well liked at Trinity, won player of the year and was a pack leader.

He showed real potential with us before he went to Belle Vue and I was disappointed when he went there on loan. I thought we would be getting a much better player back than the one that left us but it just hasn’t worked out for Dean.
I just think he plays in the shadow of some of our pack. But if he could start to believe in himself and get his confidence back he could go great for you. There’s a very good Super League player and leader in there somewhere.
If he does what he did at Trinity, you’ll be more than happy.

I think over the years I and maybe others of us have gone from assuming the best in the face of trolling (‘if he was any good, why is he signing for Rovers?’) to assuming the worst even for players getting a decent reference.

I hope we stay up this year and he goes well. However, my base case is hoping we stay up in 2020 while watching lads like Hadley get trampled on by a bunch of massive Polynesians in derbies.

rather sign Henry Kimball Hadley

Looking at the remaining fixtures I think you’ll be ok. For me it looks like the trap door is waiting for the loser of the last game of the season between Trinity v Broncos.
Can’t see where a wins coming from for either of those apart from a narrow win for either of them in this final fixture.