I know there's a thread for ins and outs but now we know when our first game of the season will be I thought I'd set up a topic for players confirmed to be on board .

As far as I can see there's Lovell, Horsman, Oakley, Curran, Leyland and Blakemore retained / resigned from last season

Bienek, Macani and Latu are returning to the club.

New signings are O'Donnell, Coates, Parata, Foster, Albert, Tuliatu, Palumbo and Ramsey.

Happy to be corrected but I don't think there's a full back in that lot.
Are we likely to be adding more players - face it we need to - getting a few loanees in or simply giving a few kids promotions from the junior ranks?

Ferrier from Hull

Must be more as that's not enough to get through a month let alone a season.

That's what I thought - and why I wanted to start a list of the players confirmed for 2022.
Squad looks paper thin ATM .

Only 1 winger as well.
We had 25/26? Last season and general consensus was that was too few and we got into the inexperienced players too deeply and too frequently. We are somewhat down on that ...sigh.

We could make a comparison, of ins and outs

Chamberlain
Miski
Latu for Hodson
Macani for Boafa
Ogden
Ferreira for Hankinson
Coates for Meadows
Ramsey for Aston
Parata for Fozzard
O'Donell for Davis
Bienek for Richards
Albert for Adibiyi
Foster for Jones
Tuliati for Gwaze
Palumbo ?

Sammut, Walter and Egodu unknown

With the exception of Hankinson, Boafa and Miski I dont think the side is much worse than it was.

Lovell
Curran
Horseman
Leyland
Blackmore
Oakley

Mancani WG
Bieniek PR
Latu CEN
O'Donnell HK
Coates HB
Parata HK
Foster LF
Albert PR
Tuliatu PR
Palumbo BR
Ferrier CEN
Ramsey HB/FB

Thats 18. 20 were meant to be signed (as of a few weeks ago) with the club working on others.

Most of us haven’t seen much L1 so difficult to:be definitive but I’m going to disagree with you. In many positions we’ve replaced with players who haven’t been tested at Championship level. In any event it’s not a demonstrably stronger team than the one that finished 7th.

Fair comment. I am mostly glass half empty when it comes to this shambles but maybe I am being glass half full thinking JC has picked up a few gems.

Lets be honest, some of the players that have gone were hopeless in particular Meadows. Didn't rate Davis or Ogden, and as I say other than Miski, Hankinson and Boafa (and possibly Richards) no great losses. If we can retain Sammut and Walters that would be bit more experience.

That all said, I remain a fan, but not a supporter any longer so my views are pretty irrelevant !

I think we have made some ok signings and some unknown

We have also lost fair bit of rubbish tbh. Main goal is avoiding relegation (not saying that us where the club should be etc)