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I think he will go well in the Championship. Be a decent signing for you guys.

Not up to it if we're in SL then?

Should be looking no further than bringing in players for playoffs at this stage...

Yes we need to hopefully be looking to strengthen for the end of this season considering the number of forwards we've lost from our original squad - Amir,Hewitt, Springer and Brearley, but it's also vital we're planning for next season which realistically is much more important for Halifax's future. Now it's confirmed just 1 up this season with presumably Leigh coming down, it's vital Halifax are well prepared to ensure a top 6 finish in what I think will be a stronger league, if as seems likely we move to 2 10 team leagues in 2023. Getting promoted this year would require a miracle and in my opinion be a complete disaster as we have nothing like the financial strength needed to put together a competitive superleague side.

Unfortunately, i agree. We still have to aim as high as possible though.

We are light years away from contemplating SL imo

If i remember right gee played against us for dewsbury on dual reg from hull kr during last season that got cancelled. He came off the bench and played in the middle scoring a try from close range and also winning a couple of penalties which sykes kicked we did struggle to deal with him in the tackle. Just on what i have seen of him for leigh when he as played it as mainly been in the second row. I would say this would be a good signing and potentially a very good one but as with all signings time will tell.

He's scored twice against Leeds tonight.

I was just reading a interview with simon grix in the courier and if i read it right we will not be signing anyone on a permanent deal for the rest of this season but might be brining in a few on loan. There is also a criteria that simon mentions that players have to meet to be able to play in the playoffs i would assume they would need to have played in a certain amount of games before the playoffs start for the club they are on loan at.

Everything that Grix says just makes the decision to get rid of Springer even more bemusing. Its going to be a slog to the end of the season if we have to go with the squad we have remaining.

Obviously summat must have occurred to make SG get shut of him. Players come, players go. If he wasn't a team man it's Au revoir! .

As it's one up and one down Fax chance of promotion are almost zero. I suspect the BOD of the Club don't want it either. So we are playing for prize money. (I believe the actual value of which depends on how you finish in the playoffs).

I suspect the BOD have probably assumed we will play, and loose to, Bradford in a top six playoff. So are therefore unwilling to invest in short term recruits when we are really battling for a third or fourth place finish and the money associated with it.

Why on earth should the BOD assume we will play and lose to Bradford?

Also, we could probably lose 2 of our remaining 5 games and still finish 3rd.

Exactly what I thought when I read it. We've played Bradford twice this year and should have won both.

And as things stand now we are more likely to face Whitehaven or london in the playoffs. I would not suggest we throw money about in a silly manner but i really think we need reinforcements as soon as possible for the next 5 games and then the playoffs if that's loans then so be it.

We undoubtedly need reinforcements but what's the point if the club have no ambitions of going up? That is the question and I think most of us know the answer.

At this stage of the season almost every club in every division are short on numbers so I’m not sure where the reinforcements are going to come from and if they don’t we can always blame the BOD.

On top of which we have a massively superior points difference.

To be honest with you i don't know what the clubs ambitions are for the playoffs it would be good to here from the board on this. At the end of the day if it stays as one up and one down in one off rugby why cant we beat fev or Toulouse that is if it comes down to that we or them might get beat by a other side first.

Go for Bell.. Show ambition.

I am getting to the point were i would pretty much take anyone right now it looks like we could be down to the bare bones for sunday.

I get where he is coming from but we have let players go through the season and not brought any replacements in, we are down to the bare bones with only squad players who to be honest would probably not stnad out in League 1 as back up and I can see the season just fizzling out. As said we need to win 3 out of 5 to get 3rd. I can see us losing to Haven and Fev which makes Sunday a must win if we want 3rd and a home tie against London/Haven. We really should win that and then it will be over to Fev where we won't win with the current team.

To be fair its about what I expected before the start of the season but with us been in this position I would have hoped we would have made a real push to at least give us a shot.

Some tough games coming up Fev away is a deffo 0 points and Widnes away Batley at home could easily end up the same way, Haven too will not be easy.
End of the day we have a bit of a cushion against those chasing and it's in our own hands which after Oldham I would have taken.