Williams in talks with Salford

To add to

Abdull to HKR
Walker to Wakefiled
Pitts to Wakefield

Maybe we could enter a team into the Nines next season!!!!

Pitts is under contract with us until the end of 2020.

Someone on here mentioned that contracts get ripped up in the event of relegation??

I have no idea with Pitts as he extended his contract in June 2018 when we were still in the Championship, well before promotion.

When did Broncos get relegated?

Of course, we are not down yet, however the question still stands about contracts, is it true????

It would be a bonus for us if that is not the case. Although why would Pitts be in talks (if that is true) if he is still under contract.

It is true about them being torn up if relegated but that is a long way from being certain.

This time last year people were panicking about losing players due to them wanting to play super league and with Toronto absolutely nailed on there was no way any player other than Fozzard would be daft enough to sign for London.

As it happens Fozzard showed exactly why players should wait until a little longer before choosing their next club. I know at least one of those who has signed elsewhere for 2020 is regretting it already. I also know the club including Wardy are comfortable with people jumping ship, there are plenty more who will come in if the club survive or not.

I can understand players wanting to sort further out.
But what annoys me most, is that we as well as Salford take players no one else wants and develops them plus home grown talenf. Then suddenly orher clubs look and decided they want them after all

So we will never gef a team of home grown or southern players, which in turn means kids from here can never have a home grown hero (like alot do up north). I think Stevo had it right a few years ago that the RFL should not allow northern clubs to poach them, i cant remember how long he said for.
Also why is our players being poached and not HullKR or Leeds, after all the season not decided yet and if honest this time next Friday we coild be 4 points clear of bottom if results go our way.
Plus these clubs signing up players for next year as if its already decided we are going down.

Memory could be failing me here, but the difference with last season is that it seems there are more rumours/talk of our players not signing on and staying, last year it was just a case of "well they wont stay if we dont go up". This year it seems that things are a little more concrete (already quite a few mentioned as going or in talks)

Im not asking for names, but numbers wise do you know how many we could stand to lose as things are currently??? I find the comment about players coming in interesting. The key thing there is the quality of those players.


On a side point, and this is not a dig at Huges, just general. A club is facing the drop. The owner dips into his pocket and brings in a couple of big names to save them. The club goes down anyway. If the contracts get ripped up, financially the club are not left stuck playing in the Champ with a couple of players costing big money. So why the talk about spending big to stay up, only to go down anyway and suffer financial meltdown??

I think I'm right in saying at least two of the players leaving turned down bigger money at London to go up north. David cannot be blamed for agents pushing players into clubs.

I really hope that we can stay up. Then the team that were relegated, who have been signing up players for next season in expectation of being in Super League, would be left with egg on their face. COYB.

Yeah, I think a wry smile might cross my lips if that were to happen.

Abdul is going home why? His mrs with a new baby is not happy can you blame him.
As for spending big to stay up! Didnt Toronto spend big to get promoted? Did that work?
The good dct spent big saying he would be at old Trafford
So does spending big work ?

It’s HOW you spend it that matters!

I have no idea how the club deal with the players partners. We have lost so many players where their significant other decides that they want to move back up North, others stay there.
I am sure the other players partners make an effort to make them welcome. Do the club? A bit of effort in this department could reap benefits.

This is why we need to keep producing our own players- there is always the possibility of a Northern player ( or their other half) not settling down South.
Didn’t Abdull only sign up for a year. Perhaps it was in the back of his mind that something like this might happen? Try London for a season and see how it goes.

I’d like us to sign Cunningham but I think he signed for you because his partner had got a job in London

Thing with Jordan, they have a new baby, club could do anything they wanted if she wants and needs the support of her family nothing is going to change that.
As long as he produces the goods for the rest of the season that's all that matters at the mo

A whole different thread, but in short, Kids need to grow up before they start having their own kids.

Whole different thread, family is important to some, more than any job

Latest this morning Morgan Smith Hull KR looiking at him, we only gave him the one year contract, who is next??

I dont buy into this Super League contract torn up if club relegated. I could see a 3 year contract being terminated by mutual consent, god knows we seem to have cancelled plenty over the years. Often looking a little foolish for so doing, Akers being a prime example. Any club worth it's salt, might enter a relegation clause of reduced money as that makes sense. Fulham did that & will save tens of millions of pounds as a result of relegation from the Premier League.

Strikes me as loony to offer 1 year contracts unless its to see if a player makes the grade.

Hull is only a couple of hundred miles away, not like coming from Australia. Maybe northerners don't travel well?

Any player signing for Hull KR at this time is taking a big risk. They could quite easily get relegated. Now this may change but sign now and they may run the risk of ending up at a club that has just been relegated.

I have no doubt that if i told you it was sunny you would wait until
Midnight to claim i was wrong.

No risk at all pal, we will be fine. And do you really think the RFL would want a team averaging 7/8k fans out of Super League? Nah. FWIW. I dont think London will finish bottom.