Not impressed and if Lunt goes as well will seriously consider not going to matches next year.

I renewed last week.

Given that it's not etched in stone who we play because of this splitting crap I was as slow as I've ever been when it came to renewing. Had this been announced last week I may not have done so.

Is Lunt really going? I suppose he may do. Let's face it; he won't be staying beyond next year even if he stays this year. He doesn't want to be here. It seems plenty of players don't!

There is something awry at the moment. The club openly moan about attendances but seem incapable of organising any positive news that lifts us. They expect the signing of a Bulls youth player to blow the lid off the place, talk of more positive news then announce that Patrick is gone. On top of that, they lie about it being really recent and Anderson not knowing whether it has happened. But hey, Patrick wasn't one of those who had surgery was he? Why wasn't he at the training camp instead of having his photo taken with the big gorilla? Why say we're letting our biggest impact player go because we need "more impact" and with us all having seen Hughes play and knowing that impact he aint.

Something is awry. Very awry.

Sorry to repeat my post on another thread, but here goes.

As I have intimated, I don't know the ins and outs of why this happened.

I am a fan of Larne's, but I would just like to point out that in this season's HGSA Wagstaff Trophy vote [loose criteria being 'who would you least like to see leave the club', Larne received only one vote.

Yes, we are training up a youngster for Wigan, but they are reciprocating. If all goes according to plan, we shall see a stronger LP playing for us in 2016 [his contract runs out at the end of that season.

And perhaps there's more to the deal than meets the eye, something that either, or both, Wigan and us don't feel is right to publicise. I don't know, just commenting.

As people on this board are often saying, 'in Baloo we trust'.

We shall see.

I renewed last week but not with great enthusiasm but may not bother if i dont see any positivity coming from the club.

Yes it's all a bit underwhelming

Still could be worse
We could be Hull fans

Lunts not going anywhere.

dont think we will see patrick again..think there is more than meets the eye to this deal, maybe scott taylor is being lined up in future.

we have signed one of the best props in SL this off season in huby, people seem to forget this, we dont need wholesale changes like some clubs.

looking forward to seeing Huby and Ellis... with some players coming in busting a gut to prove themselves like hughes, thats me being positive anyway!

Neither was larne.... Last week...

did he come out and say that publicly ?

larnes mind has been elsewhere for a long time.. and been linked with wigan for a long time, came as no surprise to me

The club did last week.

Hughes to Giants reminds me very much of the Stephen Wilde signing. I think he will go well for you.

Good deal for both parties IMO. Both players strike me as lads who are ready for a move to get their careers moving in the right direction again.

Hughes could be a very good player IMO but it wasn't happening for him at Wigan. His progression had halted and his game was littered with errors. He struck me as a lad that needed taking out of his comfort zone and I think this move will do that.

He'll have a big year for you IMO.

I hope you Wigan lads are right.

not from patrick himself, which is the case with lunt.

if he can come anywhere near to what wild was like for us then he will be brilliant!

we have had some good in comings from wigan in the past, kev brown, mossop, robinson and aspinwall also spring to mind

And don't forget Ted Slevin in 1952.

ernie ashcroft

no sorry im not having it that this deal is good for us it just isn't ,unless sunny bill is on his way to huddersfield and we needed to save cash for him, but i very much doubt it, i think wer all being fed a load of tripe ,at the min we are a nearly, but not quite team, that just needs an added edge to get us there, and this rubbish is not it, and dont take the s,b,w literally but you get my meaning.

Yeah I remember people being underwhelmed by the signings of brown, wild and robbo


And letting kirmond go, and letting other players go who were deemed brilliant at the time but now forgotten

Not sure I'd class Huddersfield as good enough to be nearly men. Warrington take that title having narrowly missed out in the SL final this year, losing the two before that as well as narrowly missing out on the '13 CC final. Saints just shook off the tag with their fluke this year. Don't mean to have a go by the way, never an easy team to come up against in the regular season, but it would take more than a small improvement to see you realistically challenging for honours come the business end of the season. Play offs should a good target to aim for with Leeds potentially finally starting to decline and Cas having lost some of their best players

what about ferres, people were very underwhelmed ... including me!

last season too with bailey...what a player he is.

was not happy to see kirmond go mind.

Who was the back row/centre who went to Bradford - Aussie
Everyone lamented him going now I can't remember him

Chris Nero ?

top player nero!!

costin? gene? they went to bulls and fans werent happy.

Anderson talks about hughes signing

[urlhttp://www.giantsrl.com/news/article/4002/anderson-delighted-with-hughes-capture[/url

like this about him having 'mongrel' in him and a tough player... just what we need!!!!!!!


also hughes speaks

[urlhttp://www.giantsrl.com/news/article/4003/jack-hughes-excited-to-be[/url

player with a point to prove and wanting to impress... like the sound of that too

Do players on loan not free up salary cap? I thought if they went then it comes off yours. So potential new signing?

we need to have faith. Thewlis brought in ferres and wardle who people questioned and have been great for us. Plus he has managed to keep Brough.

Keep the faith and be glad we have at least signed a promising English lad.