Samir, Davies, Uaisele and Ulugia are all contracted for next year so unless another club makes us an offer for them they will still be here in 2016.
3 out of the 4 haven't 'disappeared', they are on loan and playing regularly. Keighley have expressed an interest in signing Samir permanently but I'm not sure about Dewsbury or Batley wanting to keep Uaisele/Ulugia.
I've said elsewhere before now that I would want to keep Ulugia, if only for his utility value.

It would be nice to loose some of the weaker players in the squad and add some bit in the pack...

We def need a strong scrum half though I think the 8's would have been a different story if we did,

Is Sijeka only contracted for 1 year?

Siejka is under contract until the end of 2016.

I seem to recollect reading that Davies had been "released" back in July, though I can't remember where to or under what terms.

We need a good half back, pref Gaskall at stand off and reliable cover / competition for the place...

Addy has worked at it but he isn't a scrumhhalf..


I would like to see some Nasty big forwards as we were out gunned by Widnes in the forwards last week,..

I don't remember reading anything like that and I'm sure it would have been mentioned on here at the time - are you sure you didn't dream it?

Just like Adam Brook, then.

think assumption was that davies and probably ulugia were de-registered in july to allow signing of ryan and Nielsen on quota. Was never actually announced as such by club though.

On the subject of more props - can I just say that I place more emphasis on dog and determination than i do on sheer size. This is because I (sadly) go back to watching forwards like Jimmy Thompson and Colin Forsyth, who were not big even by 80s standards, but would walk into the pack any SL team today or any day. Because you can't teach what they had.

Also i am not up-to-speed on our youg players, but each new season the young forwards are another year older, bigger and uglier and they do grow at an alarming pace nowadays - do we have any obvious breakthrough candidates?

Here if only we could solve our recruitment problem at a stroke, by signing Alan Redfearn, Colin Forsyth and Jimmy Thompson, all three on this great pic, Redfearn throwing a reverse pass to Forsyth who crashed through two defenders to score a signature try, Jimmy in his trademark headband running the other line.

I do love browsing the Rugby League Heritage Project

FA which ground is this at

I was thinking Knowsley Road but doesn't look like they were playing against Saints

Get Stephenson, Mumby and Grayshon signed up while you're at it! Would probably pass on Gary van Bellen and Bridges, though.

One of the strange foibles of RL back then was that in the case of a colour clash, it was the HOME team which changed shirts, not the visitors, so it's not immediately obvious who we were playing, but I don't thinks it's Saints as we'd still have been using Yorks and Lancs leagues in those days, so odds on it's a Yorkshire ground.

Even stranger than the home team having to change was the fact that some folk actually complained when it was changed to the away side.....

I can't remember having Yorkshire and Lancashire leagues, this is late 70s and we definatley played Saints then

Not so, actually. It must have been 1979-80, which was the only season all 7 of the players to be seen there played for the club, and that season, we were in division 1. My money would be on either Salford in their regular kit, or Hull KR in their change strip.

It's Knowsley Road mate.

It is indeed Knowsley Road,
Date: 23/02/1980
Competition: Challenge Cup 2nd Round

Any RL ground queries, come see uncle Mick.

Bridges? You'd pass on Bridges? Tell you what, when you needed to be hard to be a hooker, there were none harder than Bridges, and as good a hooker as any around. I suppose though the role has disappeared. Like his hair.

I can tell the young uns something else too, there'd be no giving up and conceding 40 in the second half if Jimmy Thompson was on your case

I think we won. If I remember right Saints scored late on and forced a dramatic finale but we held on. There was fighting between supporters cops dragging people out. Those were the days.

Oh indeed. Playing under 1980 rules, most modern hookers would be wailing for their mums after five minutes against the likes of Bridges. Under today's rules, though, I think I would pass, unless he got special dispensation to use motorised transport between rucks.

It's a big call identifying the 3 Saints defenders in that photo. I think Mel James could be the number 8 but I think I'm going to ask Uncle Mick to help us out with the other two as I don't think hot stepping Geoff Pimblett ever had a perm like that full back! Come on Mick - for a man that had a re-tweet from Joe Cobb last week this could be your chance to quieten the doubters.

Ha ha, my memory playing tricks again, thought it might have been earlier!!