Just a bit of fun. Who would you keep from the current squad for next years L1 campaign


I've not included players who are too good for us and will inevitably move on (Roche, Ryan, Bentley, Chisholm) Obviously i expect a few from the below list to move on as well, but i've included them as i've not seen rumours linking them with moves elsewhere. It's on the assumption we'll be FT next year.

It's just a bit of fun to see what sort of squad the fans assemble. Some might want a clear out, some may want consistency. Players we don't rate, we might keep as they may do OK in L1.

You will keep Chisholm, cant see anywhere for him to go in the Championship.

I'm not ticking boxes. It's fairly simple for me. I would keep as many of our own academy products as we can, along with all the players we have signed since the season started.
I would allow to leave all the players who we inherited who no other SL or Championship side wanted when they were free agents.

Surprised at the low votes for Evan Hodgson so far. He's a great prospect. Still only in the U19s.

Tomlinson I don't think has had enough gametime to make a decision.

Not surprised where other votes have and haven't gone - apart from Tonga who is getting on, won't be cheap and is injured more often than fit.

That's pretty much how I ticked the boxes.

All the Academy products, plus three or four that we signed in the past few months.

And who the hell voted to keep Macani?

And Halafihi. I'm guessing that was one of our "guests" from another club.

I can't really see us being the ones making most of the decisions, to be honest.

Most of our young players will have already signed elsewhere, as rumour suggests and so, no doubt, will the better members of our squad. In the absence of any planned incomers, I think we'll do well to hang on to what we can and hopefully be able to plug any obvious gaps in the vacant positions. With the few who have been already given contracts up to the end of next year and a team of fully signed players, instead of the loanees and DRs, that should, at least, give some stability to the team and help with the gelling process.

Well, that's my plan anyway..

IF we do remain FT, one thing in our favour is that they won't be any more FT clubs next year. The option of being paid FT to play RL is still appealing to many players.

Heard from a very good source at the weekend that the whole team certainly isn't staying full time. There may be the odd player who is FT, but most will be Part Time.
Obviously not official, but the guy who told me is rarely wrong.

If I'm honest, I've completely lost interest now. The lack of communication is just making me more and more apathetic towards the club every single day that goes by.

There's next to no chance of me being at Odsal next season, even if we ended up with Billy Slater, Cooper Cronk & Cameron Smith (the good one) playing for us.

Lets face it; the full-time players we have had this year have been second best to every part-time team in our league throughout the season anyway. If we can get some decent PT players, that would be better than a lot of the guys we have had this year.

This has been our problem for the last few seasons, the players that we want to keep get cherry picked and we are left with the dross and the expensive ones.

Tea Lady

Well that would be disappointing as it would spell the end of the academy surely.

Losing the academy is a red line for the RFL (or it was when the ok'd ChaLo).

They've already told Fr13daY we're keeping the academy and getting a reserves side.

Yeah, we were told that the academy is expanding.

Losing academy would be a red line for me too. Would be interested to know what "expanding" actually means.

I was told we would run both a Tier1 academy and a Tier3 academy next year. Whatever that means.

www.rugby-league.com/article/330 ... category-1 www.rugby-league.com/leagues__co ... _3_academy Maybe a link to Bradford College or somewhere like that?

www.rugby-league.com/article/330 ... category-1 www.rugby-league.com/leagues__co ... _3_academy Maybe a link to Bradford College or somewhere like that?

Quote ="Bullseye"www.rugby-league.com/article/33020/twelve-clubs-secure-category-1 www.rugby-league.com/leagues__co ... _3_academy Maybe a link to Bradford College or somewhere like that?'" Thanks. That answers that then - d'oh

Quote ="Bullseye"www.rugby-league.com/article/33020/twelve-clubs-secure-category-1 www.rugby-league.com/leagues__co ... _3_academy Maybe a link to Bradford College or somewhere like that?'" Thanks. That answers that then - d'oh

I know he doesn't get to play a full 80 in his position and may not have the experience of Moore and smith, but I personally would love to see Peltier captain the squad next year.

It's been far too long now since we've seen a player as dedicated to the club and the fans as he is. Too many journeymen looking for ill deserved pay checks that they couldn't con other teams into giving them and our young ones have been aligned behind them.

We may have a chance of squeezing another year out of the bentleys coming through the academy if the man leading the team bleeds red amber and black like Ross.

I certainly did. Think he has a good future ahead of him. Can also see Wilkinson becoming a pack leader in next couple of years. Few more votes for Davies than I expected

I was undecided about Davies. So far he's been a bit 'Chris Feather'.

By that I mean huge bloke, expect plenty of damage from him but soon as he pulls a bulls shirt on any aggression seems to evaporate.

I think Davies runs very hard. But he coughs the ball up at least twice a game. Same with Margrin. Some of Davies's tackling leaves a lot too be desired too. I suppose he comes into that bracket of not particularly good, will probably look better in L1 and people keep him so we're not looking for another 10-12 signings.

Fair point and considering he had time out of the game before coming to us from playing a couple of games in the conference. Maybe a full pre season behind him will help. Seems level headed too with some posts in fb groups. Although I commented on a post of his about takes a lot of heart to do what you do! Had a woman messaging me saying you want to take them comments back hes played for leeds and penrith!

Total agree with that HAPEtobehere; most games he seems to put 150% in and comes across as a genuine guy, wears his heart on his sleeve and really wants us to do well