Just had a look on Toronto Wolfpack website and they have stated that Ashton and Dave Taylor have both signed from start of 2018 season.

Hope he goes well for them. Served us well, time to move on and rebuild.

Nice to see the club messaging the members first

Standard practice is the incoming team announce new signings.

He might bust a tackle in the lower leagues.

MIGHT

Quite right too.

I think both Sims & Taylor are fantastic additions for the Wolfpack. Taylor should rip up the Championship and Sims will fit very nicely in to the club ethos they are looking to build, he's very good with the fans and the Wolfpack will market the hell out of the Thor connection.

Fair enough, let's see if i get one now it's announced.

Hopefully Karl is looking at a few players as well as a coach whilst out there

IN: Sitaleki Akauola (Penrith Panthers)
OUT: Rhys Evan (Leigh Centurions), Kurt Gidley (Retired), Andre Savelio (Brisbane Broncos), Brad Dwyer (Leeds Rhinos), Peta Hiku (New Zealand Warriors), Sam Wilde (Widnes Vikings), Ashton Sims (Toronto Wolfpack)

Sinking ship comes to mind..

I am going to guess that all the moves were sorted out prior to Smith announcing he was leaving, apart from Hiku maybe.

I have no issues with Big Ash, bags of enthusiasm but with very little end product. He did give 100% and for that I thank him. Good luck in your next endeavour Ash.

You could view it as us having lots of cap for the new coach to play with.

Realistically only Hiku will have been a blow. How many of the leavers are you upset about?

Good point. Saviello the only one for me, plenty of raw potential that a motivated coach could work with

Rather a clean slate than a bunch of under contract, poor standard players any day.

Obviously given the season we've just had/are having, retaining all those players was the answer!!

Sinking ship, quite an odd statement? I would have hoped that the new regime might have some idea to improve matters for next year and out of those listed only Hiku and 'Sonny Bill' Savelio will be a miss as far as I'm concerned.

Do salary cap rules not apply to Canadian teams?

I'm now in the "Emperors New Clothes" wrapped round the "Curates egg", camp as far as Savelio is concerned.

If that squad was at an English based SL club, no one would be questioning whether they fit under the cap, many of them are championship standard players. Taylor will probably be a marquee player if reports of his salary in Aus are to be believed.

same salary cap as superleague, they currently have 8/10s of of a squad made up of ex Leigh championship cloggers.

Didn't happen with Sitaleki Akauola. We found out from antipodean press.

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Not many, honestly, but it's a good chunk of players we need to sign when we're hardly looking like title contenders which will mean the asking price will go up.

Still to hear news on Matty Blythe, Benjamin Jullien, George King and Kevin Penny. Realistically that's another two gone which will mean this preseason we lose 1/2 coaches and 7/9 players. One heck of an important off season with a green CEO.

The likelihood is that we have players signed, but are waiting till that teams season is over till we announce.

I'd expect quite a few announcements on contract extensions etc over the next two weeks - we always seem to group the announcements together.

There will certainly be wholesale changes though, no doubt about that - presumably TS had been working with Moran on 2018 signings before he left, I can't believe we are waiting for a new coach to come in before we start looking - it will be too late by then.

You must have been under a stone or shell. It's been about for months.

I thought benjamin Jullien signed a 3 year deal with us?

Nothing from the club though - which is the point.