It does make me laugh how people know how much money players are paid

No way is he on 80k not in a million years, he is at best a average super league player, my calculations would be 40 to 45k

Your "calculations"

I would be very surprised to see your calculations at hull k r based on him been on 80k

If his agents got himself that kind of deal he wants to look after him!

So turning back to the joining thread (unless someone wants to change the thread title to "How much is Jimmy Keinhorst on?"icon_wink.gif where do we think we need to strengthen most?

Options as I see it are as follows:

Full Back
Preferred - Pickersgill; Brown
Back up - Evans
Fringe - Stephenson

Wing
Preferred - Johnson; DFJ
Back up - Evans
Fringe -

Centre
Preferred - Oakes; Evans
Back up - Brown
Fringe - Culling; Punton

Half Back
Preferred - Lilley; Milnes
Back up - Pickersgill
Fringe - Green; Shackleton

Prop
Preferred - Crossley; England; Kirk
Back up -
Fringe - Foster; Scurr

Hooker
Preferred - Flanagan; Doyle
Back up - Hallas
Fringe - Berry

Back Rower
Preferred - Hallas; Farrell; Hodgson
Back up - Oakes
Fringe - Vaznys; Gallagher

Everywhere.

2 Props
3 Backrowers
1 Centre
1 Wing
1 Half Back.

You've missed off Butterworth and Leadbeater, who both play on the wing.

Mikey Wood just been announced by Newcastle.

Did we lose any juniors this off season other than Mudoti?

There was talk of that Murphy being on the cusp of fist team last season but he doesn't seem to have been mentioned stepping up.

That would be 8 signings instead of the mooted 6. Possibly evidence that we'll be reliant on the DR system as many have suggested.

Yeah, but I feel we need 8 more bodies wether they come from DR and we sign them.

Surprised we haven’t tried getting Sammut back for another stint. I know he has some flaws in his game but he would go well for us I feel. Apparently Batley are talking to him so you would imagine he isn’t asking for silly money.

With the rumours around Kear and Chisholm last year and there being a clash on style of play, I wouldn't be surprised if Sammut wasn't Kear's kind of half back in the same way that Dane wasn't.

The thing that concerns me is with the bodies that we have is how the hell are we supposed to run a reserve side as well.

Couldnt agree more. Still people think we can challenge for the play offs.
As it stands we are in a relegation battle. No doubt about it.

Possibly, though I’m not sure if it was more a case of his attitude rather than his abilities on the pitch that Kear didn’t like. Admittedly John does seems to prefer a bit more structure. Not sure whether a partnership of just Milnes and Lilley will frighten too many defences next year though.

With the team we have so far I can’t see us playing a expansive game, it will be 5 drives and kick to to corner, no up and unders as no one to jump, just looking to see who might be capable of going 60 - 80 metres lol

In fairness I think many said the same about Leigh and Fev during pre season last year.

I imagine Kear has worked on smaller budgets and I can’t remember him ever being relegated from the Championship.

I think Tetley Stadium and expensive rugby is an probably an oxymoron anyway. If over 50% of the games are there I can't see us setting up for any breathtaking rugby, and to be fair it's hardly Kear's style. I'm looking forward to a dour season at best....

And as much as we enjoyed the leaping Ethan it was employed that often it was becoming ineffective, nope 5 times back through the ruck and find the corner is what I think we can look forward to.

The olde saying ( these are exciting times ) are very well behind us lol

I can't see where the similarities between us now and Featherstone and Leigh a year ago come from, apart from the fact that we all didn't have many players before the season started.

Featherstone have an established DR agreement with Leeds, which they used well. (And they bought our star HB who worked wonders for them.)

Leigh have an (admittedly fickle) multi-millionaire owner who will splash the cash when needed. Like he did last year.

We have neither of those things.

What we have is a temporary owner without a Pot to Pi$$ in, players leaving us to join clubs in the league below (for reasons which remain unsaid. But it's money, isn't it?), a DR agreement with [isomeone[/i eventually, and no home ground to play at.

If you believe what they say, we have the entire season's central funding plus money from sponsorship and the circa 800 season tickets sold. We also have considerably lower outgoings now that we're away from Odsal, and a much lower wage bill as things stand.

It's frustrating to see players leave, especially when they drop down a division. Is this because we can't afford them or because their trust in the club is damaged beyond repair?

If we don’t have DR then I agree. But it sounds like we will.

I don’t think the ‘no home ground’ will impact how we play.

We’ve made a couple of decent signings, we obviously need a few more. I think we’ll avoid relegation. I think by how much will depend on the quality of the DR partnership.

As it looks like Toronto are going to be with Widnes, which club options are left for DR?