Mitch Souter and J OK both announced at the fans forum as signing for next year. Great news!!

Always good to start getting business done early too. It can be a distraction if uncertainty carried into the latter end of the year. 

Good to have them signed up.  

Some big decisions to make for next season on our more senior players.  

I guess it's difficult to decide who we sign up for next year given the desire to be in Superleague. Jayden has played at that level before and general opinion is that Mitch would also go well. So the signings make sense. However, if we re-sign players who are not seen as SL quality or can't go full time then that suggests another year in the Championship. At the forum the board seemed quite upbeat about SL chances for 2026 but I think most of us would not be quite so confident. 


I don't see how any Championship side can risk putting together a SL squad when you have little idea which league you will be in. If you have money like Leigh did then fair enough but we all know we don't have that kind of money  so surely we can't run that risk.


Will be interesting to see if there are any more early signings for 2026.

Great to see Okunbor being retained for 2026. The club gave him the chance to reignite his career after a rocky spell at Hull FC and he’s grabbed it with both hands. He arrived low on confidence but has grown into one of our standout performers this year. You can see the spark is well and truly back. A real win-win for both the player and the club.

Chances of SL for 2026?


Do the ratings get reviewed again at the end of each season to determine the 12 Superleague teams for the following year?

Think so Wigsy.   But if a club is promoted it leaves them behind the others in getting a team recruited.