In the next week or so, there's the deadline for signing players coming off contract.
He do says he knows who he wants to keep and who he doesn't. Which players do you reckon fit in each category? I don't know who is in lady year of current contract, but I'm sure we need to keep this team together

Guess it depends on what league we are in, but assuming we miss out valiantly on SL ....

I cant see Stapleton being here next year, and I reckon Wes, and possibly Thackray might hang up his boots. Question marks over Everett and Keyes. I hope the rest can be retained, including Eliab and especially Ioane.

Think we will struggle to keep Barthau if we are not in SL, which will be a shame. agree about Thackery/Wes and Ioanne. Hope we can see something of Eliab, and then decide re next season.

I am also not sure who will be out of contract, hopefully we can keep majority

It has been one of those seasons where we'd probably like to keep most, if not all of the squad. Last few seasons there were several guys in our squad who I wouldn't have given a monkey's bout ever seeing in our colours again! There's always the possibility of older players calling it a day, and in our current situation the possibility of SL clubs looking to poach. Would be interesting to know who is OOC at the end of this season, but I think Hendo recruited pretty well - so much so that he hasn't had to dust off his boots and get out on the pitch! If we lose a few I'd feel happy with Hendo's ability to find decent replacements.

I suspect Eliab might be one of the bigger earners, and on current evidence I'd have no qualms in not resigning him.

Big announcement tomorrow regarding a player resigning for next season. It would please me if is Barthau.

It is James Cunningham who has signed on for two more years, first of many I hope.

Good player

Cunningham has being playing well. Not sure his play is noticed as much as others. Good to see him commit to the club and quite positive for next year. Hopefully another few announced soon.

Good news, big fan of his, glad we've got him for another two years!

Pleased to see that Andy Ackers has followed James Cunningham and extended his contract too.

Good news on both, who are proving excellent signings - i think Cunningham has had a stand out season. good speed at play of the ball and direct running making big yards. Both are scoring useful tries

More good news as Ben Hellewell and Matt Garside have both signed contact extensions for next season.

Is this a sign of the club preparing for another successful year in the championship?

And the strategy for having a squad for next year would be what?

We're taking the Championship a bit more seriously this season - and winning. We're a good team that gels for once and could work if promoted to SL with some current players.

Haven't got a clue maybe you can tell us

So if we were to go up you would get rid of the whole squad and bring in 26 new players in about a month, month and a half??

Who you asking?

How's Daniel Harrison going over there?

Partly yourself and partly an open question. It may be that I got the wrong end of your response (and if so I apologise). My point was we cant hold off signing guys up for next season (because we have an outside chance of going up) aswe may end up losing them (and if we don't go up, which lets face it we probably wont) it would leave us weaker for next season, again in the championship.

Its a difficult conundrum. If we go up we are to weak to compete if we don't we are not strong enough to go up and stay up

Every club has the same problem, however you have to keep a core squad and then strengthen it, usual thing tho, who ever goes down is likely to offload a shed load of players.
So in my opinion you contract the stronger players in the squad now then at the end of the season when you know what's happening sort the rest out.

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Good news given yesterday's performance. Sensible to snap him up before others moved in