Mild Rover wrote:Ins (visas permitting): Mason, Green, Hall.

Outs (excluding club-trained): Cooke, Walker, Mills.

I suspect that we may release another non-club-trained (nct) player, as Hodgson is too old to qualify as club-trained now I think. You can only have 17 nct players in the top 25 earners, so I wouldn't be in least surprised that we went back to Wheeldon when the Radford deal fell through. I'm happy enough with how things turned out, but I don't think there would have been much sense in having both and we (HKR) clearly wanted Radford.

Easty wrote:Once your club trained your club trained for life with that club arent you? We still have a quota place left aswell don't we. If so I don't think recruitment will be finished just yet.

Easty wrote:Thinking about this isn't Blake Green going to be our final quota player?

13rovers wrote:Picture the scene, a smokey board room in a corner of craven park. the scent of stale ale and cheap aftershave fills the air. A bead of condensation tickles down the side of a half drunk pint of mild, when into the room walks a young, upcoming prop, ready to start contract negotiations.
"take a seat Scott" mutters the Chairman of the club in his dulcet Hull accent. "we've bin thinking, and despite your brilliant performances in the last 'alf duzzun games of the season, we're gonna offer you a couple a years more, just coz Rad-dud didn't sign forruz. Alright lad?"
The contract is passed across the table in a flicking motion, and slides across the barely polished surface as if it were a curling stone, thrown by a champion scotsman.
The young prop, who has now been joined by his agent, begin reading the text. Tho opening line of the contract states the the offer being made is only owing to the fact that the club had failed to sign Rad-dud, and that otherwise there would've been no deal, our intrepid hero carries on regardless, as such things are commonplace in contract negotiations, that is to say other players being discussed.
Suddenly the chairman slides back his chair, making a dreadful screeching noise on the slate tiled floor. He stands up quickly, and leans across the table thrusting a shiney metallic object towards the face of the young prop, "'ere, use my pen to sign the bloody thing, then bugger off!"

I take it that's about how it went Ash?

very red robin wrote:1. Briscoe
2. Fox
3. Hall
4. Webster
5. Colbon
6. Green
7. Dobson
8. Vella
9. Fisher
10. Watts
11. Newton
12. Galea
13. Murrell

14. Cockayne
15. Mason
16. Clinton
17. Lovegrove

Easty wrote:Never heard so much tosh in all my life. Wheeldon was retained because of the quality he showed during the last six games of the season. Adding that Wheeldon is a prop forward and Radford being 2nd Rate.

Scott_HKR wrote:It's quite difficult to pick a 17 really isn't it.

1. Briscoe
2. Fox
3. Whelham
4. Webster
5. Colbon
6. Green
7. Dobson
8. Clinton
9. Fisher
10. Vella
11. Newton
12. Galea
13. Murrell

14. Hodgeson
15. Mason
16. Watts
17. Lovegrove

18. Netherton
19. Wheeldon
20. Cockayne
21. Hall
22. Cook
23. Taylor

Easty wrote:Thats how he dreamt it i reckon. If that was the case Rovers would have offered him a one year deal as They'd be actively looking for a replacement for the following year. But Instead we offered him a two year deal why is that Ash?