Wonder if the club will bring out a commemorative
Sweatshirt/Hoody like the schools do for their leaving
student's. Just a thought make a few bob eh.

It is quite a list of players leaving, but what we’ve been asking for for years. Swift, Clifford, Satae and probably Mitch are the biggest losses. Taylor has probably earned himself another year. I would keep Houghton for another year as an interchange hooker, but by all accounts he’s retiring anyway.

I can see us blooding a few next year, which is probably a bit overdue. Our reserves have been doing pretty well.

Genuinely excited to see who we’ll sign. I’d be basing the team around Trueman, Scott, Litten - the next gen!

Think Salford are in trouble and worth watching there situation, a few clubs sniffing around there players. I'd keep an eye on Burgess, Croft, Ackers and Watkins. Ackers is probably the most realistic amd one we need.

I'd hope we would have tabled a bid for Ackers to try and tempt Salford or at least spoken to them as he would be an ideal replacement for Houghton. Think Burgess would be a good replacement for Swift.
Croft would be nice but don't think realistically we'd get him and Watkins great player but wrong side of 30 and TS has been quite open about wanting younger players.

I hope Salford manage to sort things out though as think they've done a great job the last few years.

We're already running with a thin squad. Mau wasn't replaced when he left at the end of
last season, Evans wasn't replaced, plus Griiffin has gone.
We only have a handful of quality players - the halfbacks ,Swifty,Satae(sometimes!) & Litten(future) &3 of those are leaving.
Quality is a must if we have to reduce the size of the squad, otherwise we'll end up having to play
dross like Lane.Lovadua, etc. Cheap & cheerful signings won't get us anywhere, Smith is a good
coach but he's not a magician.

The time to worry is if you put the boxers on your head.

With pencils in your nose it’ll get you out of going ‘over the top’ according to Blackadder

Not to be pedantic but Sutcliffe was Ma'u replacement

New half signed. SR signing Tuesday (not sure if this will be announced then)

the chap who told me is usually on the money.

No names...... yet

Get working!!