Nothing against that just thought you'd have got hold of something world class for that money.

Yeah because it's that easy.

Can't believe we didn't go out and buy Greg Inglis, Johnathan Thurston, Shaun Johnson and James Graham instead.

Shocking from the club.

You only have Hull Fc's word about the transfer amounts paid. Surely no one except Hull's most ardent fans really believes what Adam Pearson says anymore and its been well documented about Hull's financial worries so any club dealing with them would obviously knock them down realising some money is better than no money.

Regardless of our owner, the club is pulling in enough profit to cover £300k in transfer fees comfortably - that’s before Simon Moran’s involvement.

good props?


Harrison is reportedly out for the first part of the season.

We still dont know what we're getting with Dodds yet.

Bevans is coming back from a pretty bad injury, and King is a kid who's more of a backrower.

Its hardly morley,carvell,chillyand paul wood, with harrison and cooper in the background.

You are welcome

Well if we don't improve next season it's not for the want of trying, at least in terms of player recruitment. Will need some bedding in though. Anyone running a book on "wire scapegoat 2015/16"?

Complete waste of money, the clubs going backwards, cant we pay to keep sandow in Australia as well. Stick with the youth get rid of the dogs

No, but then again neither are Crosby, Clubb, Flower, Mossop, Tautai and Wigan haven't done badly in the last three years.

I think it's more of a question of whether Tony Smith can motivate them and keep them on the straight and narrow. Sandow is an obvious ticking timebomb who needs careful management. Westerman is another who is famous for his enjoyment of a beverage and a late night out, a culture Warrington have fought hard to eradicate since the HJ move. If he finds his way to Manchester or Liverpool he might never come back. He looked set to be the next Sculthorpe in his Cas days, the move to Hull was an obvious mistake at the time and it's delayed his development significantly. This move to Warrington should have happened three years ago.

I think that Sandow will come good, but, less convinced that we should have splashed the cash on Westerman as I think we are covered in the BR and I know that there isn't a glut of top class props around but I'd have spent money there.

Bottom line it can't be any worse than this year can it?

We're certainly spalshing the cash, and if it doesn't work than time will have run out for our coaches. (By 'work' I don't necessarily mean winning a trophy, but that would be a good start).
For those who think we can spend our way out of trouble - sorry but that's not how it works for me. We need to be solvent and fund our recruitment from our means - not from a rich sugar daddy. That's not the way to run a business, and this is a business albeit in the RL arena

Tbh all this spending & player acquisition compared to previous years smacks of a CEO's size 10 having connected with the appropriate buttocks.

"spend our way out of trouble"
Of all the transfers, I think we have only paid for 2 players.( 3 maybe with Sandow) The rest were out of contract.

New board members were also appointed recently and you can bet that they have assisted if it comes to transfer fees.

The club announced a profit of £600k for 2014, why do they need director support to fund signings? Didn't the club also receive an additional £300k from Sky this year as a sweetner for signing the deal early?

Mossop and Tautai have been pretty poor to be honest, but have backed up well on occasions. The rise of Crosby, Clubb and Flower is down to Wane instilling the win at all costs mentality and making them believe they are invincible. He did it with Smith, Green, Sarginson and Williams. Our coach doesn't appear to be able to do that with our players hence the difference in trophy cabinets.

We are in dire need of a quality prop to add to the current recruitment!

Dodds is a decent powerful interchange prop for a decent NRL team. Therefore he will be one of the best props in SL.

Warrington rugby league club making a mockery of the sport by making it look like rugby league clubs are well run and have money to spend.

So what if we've spent £300k on two internationals under 25.....

Hull have that money now. .so its still in the English game as are those two players.. Let's see what Hull do with that money eh ?

Well it's kind of exactly how many businesses run to grow and establish themselves. Speculate to accumulate. Take the chance to spend big and then sustain from there. Plus we are already a profitable business and aren't worried about money in the bank before you even factor in the owner.

Not an international but we've also got Jack Hughes and another international, Darryl Clark from the year before.

Of all the things I worry about regarding The Wire, our financial situation is not one of them - in the slightest.

Seems the club are damned if they do and damned if they don't at least in some eyes. To my mind it shows the club weren't any happier with last season than the rest of us and have decided to do something about it. Time will tell if they got it right.

Well, my hesitency is purely on lack of knowledge of him, from what i've read on here, and other people watching the nrl since we announced his signature, he seems like a defensive prop, rather than a go forward type, which is pretty good since we need to toughen up there, but arguably its overall numbers that concern me. He's number 3 in a rotation where we worked 1 and 2 to death, there's an injury ? over number 4 in harrison, one over number 5 in Evans and a kid in king.

To go back to the wigan props, crosby is the youngest and probably biggest out of the lot who's played more and more minutes over the year, the rest have been consistantly fit so far, but also backed up by Wigans 3/4 line doing extra work for them, so they've not been over worked due to style of play.

We were a prop short after woody leaving last pre season and IMO we're still a prop short now.

This season Smith has bemoaned the lack of option takers hence the early announcement of Gidley, when Sandow arrived responsibility fell squarely on his shoulders as there was no one else, next season Sandow will have Gidley and Westerman sharing options with some great players outside to take up Smiths "play it as you see it" mantra.

£150.000 is no great shakes if you say it slowly, I hope we can fit in another prop though.

Is Manu still in England then?