International honours i'd say

Systems in place??

Can you elaborate?

Do you mean not paying over the odds, on a lengthy deal, limiting you going forward?

I'd imagine that having Senior, Coady, Watkins and Delaney signed up means they don't need him. Much the same with Ashley Gibson, simply not room under the salary cap or he's elected to take a two year deal with us as opposed to a one year deal with them

This is similar to fox,murrell and scruton where we had a good squad and that's taken into account when new deals are negotiated.
Sometimes players accept the terms and stay to fight for a spot and on other occasions they accept the better offer and leave it's that straight forward and although like i said before i'd of liked him to stay and it could bite us GH has been very successfull in running the club this way.

or even more plausible, cover for chev who is likely to be out all next season

Do you see Chev being offered a new deal?

If he was to be paid off, which is a possibility, I should imagine the pay off and Ratu's wages won't be too far off....which in fairness is probably good business as at least you get a player on the pitch for the same money.

If paying both.............

they can also just de register him and then give him a 1yr contract if he makes it back to prove himself worthy of another contract

How does the de-registering work??....would that make Chev a free agent??

yes. but i would feel that they may negotiate some form of informal agreement for him to see his last year out, hence the 1 yr option when back from injury

Hopefully will get ahead of Welham who is dire when it counts and is without doubt not a top 4 player..

Looks like a pretty good signing to me, would doubt he'll be on big money and if Friday showed us anything it was we are very light in the backs in we pick up an injury. Add to that the fact that Webster looks permanently on the verge of pulling up injured and Chev is gone for at least next season (i would assume) then a right centre seems the obvious choice. Afterall what cover do we have there, cockayne??

We need to strenghten the squad and need to do it with young English players, whether ratu fulfils his potential we will see but at least the potential is there.

We need to add an impact prop (or two) to our playing staff now and then I see the recruitment more or less done.

Yeah definitely mate.