This is not unsurprising. Imagine his CV.

He would need to blank out years with "travelling" like this chap I knew did when he was at HMP.

I'm sure creative job hunting is just as widespread as creative accounting.

Dave "the squirrel" Tyrell is not good enough to be a quota player.

I think he'd suit us, I always thought he was a tough nuggety prop hard to put down. Not much to his game other than strong running from what I can remember.
But he's at the very least on a par with Sims, and hes younger ( and is built like a front rower should be) and would be a decent starting prop with Hill.

I wouldn't be disappointed with signing him.

With Dwyer going to Leeds. We are going to be a hooker short. Would Andy Ackers of London be worth resigning? He looks very good. Good enough as a backup for Clark.

Based solely on what I'm watching right now I wouldn't say no.

Ackers used to play for us. We released him as far as I recall.

I did say resigning. We released him to Swinton before he signed for London.

Isn't Ackers an ex Wizards player ?

No mate, he played in the Academy for two years

9. Clark

14. Smith

The two forgotten men, Penny and Blythe have been confirmed for leaving the club.

Feel sorry for both, lack of wolves playing time can't have helped their prospects for employment next season

It's a shame, but not a surprise.

The only cover for Smith & Clark was Dwyer & Gidley. With both leaving what cover will we have, also Smith is not quite ready yet.

Smith may well take up the bench hooker option (defensive improvements needed though) - but I agree we need further cover there.

I'd also like to see Smith given a run out in his preferred scrum half position at some point. Either way, we need another hooker in the squad.

their lack of ability won't have helped either, neither of them should never have been given a place back here.

Have to agree about Blythe, he didn't shine in a Bradford side neve rmind Super League team.
Penny is, well, Penny.

Yep, good riddance to the pair of them, you couldn't even class them as bench warmers. More Salary Cap Leeches!

Hopefully a couple more departure announcements to come with regards to coaching staff and then the re building can well and truly commence.

I am going to hazard a guess that they were both on a ridiculously low salary to be brought back. No loss

I think the issue is that the likes of Leeds / Wigan & Saints don't have players like Blythe and Penny etc in their first team squads. They have young players who can come in and do a job, whilst having the potential to improve and become a first team regular. We have to sign players like Blythe and Penny (and previously Cox / Bailey / Wheeler etc) as we don't seem to have the strength in numbers of academy players able to come through and do a first team job while they wait to develop.

So yes we need these type of players in our salary cap - but only because IMO our academy isn't delivering the volume of players it should be doing. Even more important now given I think players under 21 are not included on the salary cap, if they are outside your top 25 paid players....?

Wow, in a season where there have been some "interesting" posts you win the one for being most graceless.

Saints who signed the world beater Tommy Lee, Leeds who have signed Dwyer (not disrespecting him but defeats the bringing their youngsters through argument). Wigan obviously have a conveyor belt of talent, especially wingers, but that is nothing new.

Not really the same thing, Lee was given squad no. 17, so I assume Cunningham's thinking was Lee would play bench hooker. Dwyer similarly will probably be given a squad number in the mid to late teens to signify his place as bench hooker.

Penny and Blythe were signed as squad men who (injuries aside) wouldn't feature in the first 17.

Owens @ Saints and Navarrette @ Wigan would have been better examples, but both of those were still young (22) and had that potential still in them. The likes of Blythe / Penny / Bailey never had that on their side. And were nothing more than squad fillers.

Since the arrival of a certain Mr Smith any home grown "talent" has been on a slippery slope towards the Tesco carpark ,while "quality" players have been bought in at the expense of tutoring our young players as his preference for a quick fix.Even looking at recent seasons where our playing staff has been below par, any slight mistake has led to a quick exit from the team for any young hopefuls. I believe Dec Patten's favourite karaoke song is the okey cokey. At least some of the coaches at our rivals keep faith with their young players.

They will both get picked up probably by championship clubs.

Thing is who made the decision to release them, I reckon Smith would have retained them both.