1. BK
2.Vinny Finnigan
3.Michael Platt
4. Chev Walker
5.Shaun Ainscough
6.Danny Addy
7.Matt Orford
8.Ewan Dowes
9. Heathey
10. Lynchy
11.Olivier Elima
12 Glenn Hall
13 langers
14 wagga
15 nick scruton
16 elliot whitehead
17 craig kopczak
18 paul sykes
19 james donaldson
20 jason crookes
21 tom olbison
22 tom burgess
23 george burgess
24 cain southernwood

that is quite a mean squad tbh

A squad without the contracted Dave Halley.

And with a number 21, despite us retiring the number.

And with new players called Finnigan, Addey & Orofrd.

dave halley isnt up to scratch...
21 i have just put as the amount in the squad
and typo
sorry boss

21 = Karl. He can still do a job.

You are very easily pleased then?

Cant say that squad fills me with hope!!

19 senior players including Donno who is recovering from serious injury and 5 kids - isnt that smaller than this year?
no cover at half back other than Southernwood?
Addy at 6 all year?
Walker coming back from serious injury
On that squad Orford must be paid half the cap!!

Lets hope we dont get injuris in the three quarters then as we only have Sykes & Crookes to cover
MacNamara would be criticised for that squad
4 players in, and 6/7/8 out

2011 squad will be hell a lot better than any Macca has put together.

With all respect mate thats balanced at best the three quarter line is still not enuf, glenn hall cud go yet, flannery and meli will come in, addy aint a stand off, more a back row forward who is doing a great job, lemme give u a better idea:

1 Kearney
2 Ainscough
3 Sykes
4 Walker
5 Meli
6 Bosc
7 Orford
8 Scruton
9 L'estrange
10 Lynch
11 Elima
12 Flannery
13 Langley

14 Godwin
15 Whitehead
16 Donaldson
17 Dowes/Hall (IF HE STAYS)

18 Kopczak
19 Worrincy
20 Halley
21 Crookes
22 Platt
23 Addy
24 Wardle
25 Olbison
26 Southernwood
27 G.Burgess
28 T.Burgess
29 Sculthorpe
30 Finnegan

I think that is a far better team and much realistic which ulitmately will pull fans, probs up to the salary cap with that!

What do people think?

I wouldn't put Ainscough next to sykes

You'd need another prop too so Donno might have to drop out (although it has been suggested before that his future lies at dummy half)

Also you've made too many assumptions on signings like Bosc and Flannery and there are only 4 homegrown players. So not only fanciful but wouldn't be compliant either

4 home growns, u have to have 11 in the squad for next year, there are 14 if u look again mate!

My misunderstanding but don't you have to have 8 in the starting line up?

haha only 4 homegrown so that wud mean 11 of the starting 13 wud hav 2 be homegrown epic fail

where are you getting this from ? :S

Oh no have I been pwned? my bad

Tru dat

Anyway I'm sure it'll get answered in the morning

Leon should get the number 6.

no way can bulls afford to pay out his contract

They can if an agreement is reached with Saints. If they are happy to release him to get someone else his contract could be cancelled by mutual consent couldnt it?

Unlikely i know but if both sides are keen to do a deal for its own reasons, anything can happen

Can't see Saints letting Leon Pryce walk cheaply, we are more likely to get him back next year...

Regarding home grown rules for 2011; [urlhttp://www.superleague.co.uk/page.php?id=346[/url

CLUB TRAINED PLAYER RULE

engage Super League XIII is likely to have the most club trained players taking part in the competition for nearly five years thanks to a new rule introduced for 2008.

The new ‘club trained player’ rule stipulates that each club must have at least five players who are aged under 21 years or are graduates from their own academy system in their 25 man first team squad during 2008.

The table below shows how these figures will increase between now and 2011.

Year..............................2011
Home-Grown Players.........8
UK-trained players............12
Overseas trained players....5


so, for 2011 [iat the moment [/iI would suggest;

[uHome grown players[/u;12
Halley, Sykes, Langley, Whitehead, Koppy, Donaldson, Finigan, Addy, Southenwood, Olibison, Crossley, Wardle,

[uUK trained players;[/u 8
Scruton, Lynch, Godwin, Platt, Sculthorpe, Walker, Aincough, (?) Elima (quota exception?)

[uOverseas trained;[/u 4
L'estrange, Hall, Orford, Kearney, (room for one signing or retain Menzies)

Outside of the 25 at the moment but still with the club for 2011 at the moment, with a 2010 squad number (some might be released some retained outside the 25icon_wink.gif
Worrincy, Crookes, Sherriffe, Reardon, O'Brien, T Burgess, G Burgess, Tate,

This gives us a 25 man first team squad that satisfies the rules, my reading of them is that the 12 uk trained players can be home grown, so we need 20 home grown/uk trained a minimum of 8 of which are "home grown". Correct me if Im wrong. I reckon we will have 12 home grown at least. There will be some movement in and out of the 25 squad obviously as and when.

I meant 2012..

And the bold bit is where we are losing ground on the top sides.

Where as Leeds, Wigan, Saints keep their best youngsters (in the main) we have lost some of ours - ala, Fielden, Peacock, Leon, Burgess, Atkins, Bridge.

I know these players all left for varying reasons and stages of development, but this doesn't seem to happen as much with the other sides. I think we may have just realised that homegrown players (especially the top ones) are worth more to us than we previously realised.

Exactly, which is the crux of it. And why we have shifted the emphasis to this in the last couple of years, but we're playing catch up now in a game of junior developement where there are no guarentees as to what you produce.

Are you sure Southernwood counts as homegrown? I thought we signed him from Wakefield...