I can't see many options for hooker and half backs if O'Brien, Sezer, Cogger and Gaskell are long term injuries. Russell is too lightweight, Sam Wood is not a stand off, can we bring anyone in on loan?

I said right at the start of the season we didn’t have cover at hooker. Our most decent academy hooker decided to quit the game - Now it’s biting us in the aris as our best fullback is being moved there and we are without a hooker and now a decent fullback.
Poor planning.

Noto mention Cunningham is simply awful, not seen anything creative from him all year, he doesn't even scoot, worst signing for a long time

completely agree - he's not done much to impress.
poor poor planning, we send our back up hooker on a season long loan giving us no opportunity to recall, leaving us with just two.
then switch our best fullback to hooker. Should have played Edwards at hooker - he's stood in at Eels in the past, and we have plenty who can play 2nd row.
mind that's likely not an option now either!

Looks like Sezer going to Leeds for less money what hell is going on next year will be a new spine .
did we try to keep is this Bret Hodson all over again

For what it's worth, Luke Yates played a little bit of hooker at Newcastle.
He played several short stints in reserve grade at hooker before getting a run as bench hooker in firstgrade, but was so bad they took him off after 5 minutes and never asked him to play hooker again.
I thought he wasn't too bad in reserve grade.

Just read that we are trying to offload Cunnngham and Ashworth to Leigh for Peteru and Peats.

That's good if true, Jack Ashworth was great for us @ Leigh in the 2019 season, albeit in the championship.

Yes apparently that then gives Leigh two quota spots which they are working to fill.

3 of the players have completed their loan swaps, apart from Cunningham who won't be coming to lovely Leigh.

You aren't missing anything, im not sure he is even championship standard, never seen a player have less impact, the only thing i have really noticed him doing is pass from dummy half, that's about his game. If he thinks he is too good for leigh he is sorely mistaken,

Strange of him to refuse as he will likely be frozen out of the team here.

we are currently running with just one on loan hooker, we are desperate, he wont be frozen out. but I cant remember the last time I saw such an ineffectual hooker.

we need a 6 or 7 ASAP Russell shocking .yesterday after going 12 up we should be winning . our d was better but still a poor Wigan score 3 tries and
we dont look like we will score if we played 80 hours if our coach is happy then he is in he wrong job

Sam Wood now off at the end of the season too - Hull KR apparently.

I'm gutted by this news, Sam has always done what's asked of him, played in a multitude of positions and will always put in that little extra effort to get to the man to make a tackle. Just the kind of hard working player that Watson claims to like. A home grown player we should be looking to keep!
lets hope Watson does a better choice of replacing him than he has with the players brought in so far.

your linked with Brad Fash from FC, apparently Watson has guaranteed him a starting position if he joins

The shambles rolls on overseen by clueless you couldn’t make it up. Let’s hope Ken happy to keep throwing money down the drain season tickets will be less than 2k next time

im sorry to say you are so right hxgiant the club is totally rotten at the top I asked myself why mo player of any quality would join yes we know Gaskell did but with a totally inflated wage a player from the championship and it will just roll on until a change at the top from a clueless CEO these youngsters cant wait to leave if they show any potential I think you will be over the top with figure you have given

Chris Hill also rumoured - 3/4 years ago maybe. but getting a 33 year old prop with the propensity to brain farts regarding discipline isn't really what i'd like to see.
Fash I am willing to give a chance to - a starting spot might be just what he needs. surely Watsons reputation earned at Salford for bringing out the best in "unwanted" players has to work for ONE player at giants!

One year of failed promise and we are looking at the same type of has been/never will be player, nice! So much for watsons ability to bring players on, now we are after Chris Hill?!!? lol. I did say at the start of season that some Coaches only ever shine at one club and cant replicate elsewhere and maybe Watson is one of those....

And maybe he isn’t

Watson only had a 49% win record for Salford. For context, Woolford's was 48%.

You hired him, presumably, based on a GF run that was created by Jackson Hastings and Joey Lussick and a cup final appearance that we didn't win after having a fairly easy run to it. Watson thought he would leave while his stock was high, which is fair enough but if you think that for some reason your fortunes will change overnight you may be in for disappointment. Watson when at Salford had a real reluctance to promote the good quality young lads from our academy, and it seems that continues at your club. This isn't a bitter 'rub it in' post from a Salford fan either by the way. While we would have been happy for him to stay at the time, the way he manufactured his exit showed a different side and we wouldn't have him back for anything.

He may come good for you, but I think his success (the small bit he has had) with Salford relied heavily on a few quality players in Hastings, Lussick, Evalds, and a pack punching above its weight rather than coaching genius. He did seem to have a knack for getting the most out of players that were seen as average at other clubs, but once again a lot of that could be attributed to raising their game due to the likes of Hastings and Lussick pushing them around the park.

He may come good, but I think you'll need to stick with him for a while before you see a great deal of improvement. Whether you all have the patience for that is another matter of course.

think it was the media that bulled him up
Carney and his merry men and the CEO of the sweet shop bought it

Was never over enthused by Watson's appointment and seen nothing to impress and show any improvement from last year. Obviously decimated in the key areas so got some mitigating circumstances that give him some leeway and deserves a run with a somewhere near full squad. Ref the comment about young players, that does worry me and have seen signs of that.... Oliver Wilson for me would have been a regular from the first game but seems to have only come in when we ran short of players. Posted that Sam Wood going - bring him through the academy get to first team then let him go... Chris Hill rumoured- can't be serious!!! Bringing in at least one more Salford player- we are becoming Salford. Is this the way forward? Yes some younger players have played but I feel only through necessity not choice- Jake Wardle a shining star but we don't seem to use him much in our play and how long before he goes?