Well, according to rival fans and our very own 5th columnists over on TRL, Kelepi Tanginoa has taken over as the player we aren't good enough to keep hold of?

Just hope it Mr Chester wants 4 or 5 new players there better than the last 4 or 5 players he bought

I'd hope we can make it work to keep BJB and Gwaze. Green isn't that old is he? 30/31? Especially for a prop. That said I'm not sure we've seen the best of him to say the least.
Can't see where Gigot fits into this squad but unless someone wants to take him off our hands then I imagine he'll be here next year. Walker i'm not convinced about and surely he's behind Jowitt and Hampshire at full back and if BJB stays he can always cover there if we have injuries. Again not sure what deal we gave him?

I base it on what I’ve heard but as is the way opinions seem to differ. Also my son broke his ankle a few years back and had a plate put in. The surgeon said he’d never break it again and he wasn’t joking. He was right but similar to TJ he did manage fracture his other ankle! Didn’t need a plate this time though.

Tom is a bit of a bionic winger these days

Fair enough Vasty.
But I'm basing it on what I've seen pre-op. op. post-op and recovery.

We apparently looking to do a swap for Battye which if I was guessing would be Walker. The statement regarding the importance of KT came from Chester, let’s hope he remembers that he is a second row not a prop.
We are still in the entertainment business, I know it’s hard to always remember this, therefore you need players who bring the crowds in and Johnson and Fifita are two. I was wondering if the lack of crowds actually effects some players like Fifita who we know thrives when the supporters are cheering him.
With regards players out of contract I still think BJB deserves another season, Green we have decided to move on and I wonder if Kopczak will end up at Leigh. I also thought our French prop and the one from Halifax would not be with us next season.

Perhaps the addition of a 12th club at such short notice will play into our hand. Whoever it is, they will be desperate for some SL standard fringe players to boost their squad and we may get the opportunity to offload a few that are surplus to requirements.

With Hull KR offloading 11 of their 1st team squad they too will be looking for replacements.

Didn't Hull KR get rid of a similar number of players last season too?

In todays League Express Chester says that he wants to build a team around Tanginoa..."We will fight tooth and nail to make that happen. A lot of clubs are probably sniffing around him, but he is loving life at Wakefield Trinity as is his family, and we're hopeful we can get something sorted long-term and build a team around him. And a half-back is a very close second"
As Scarlet says above, we are also looking at keeping Battye with a potential swap deal being proposed to secure his services, so maybe offer Walker back to London along with Gigot ??

So keeping Kelepi is the number one priority

Need to be spot on with recruitment - obviously dictated by funds. For every Tanginoa there are three Gigot’s.

When any deal involves a player swap the difficulty is that you need a Wakefield player who is under contract wanting to probably play in the championship and move to London.

Retaining Tanginoa seems to have gone up the list from the priority of an organising half.

I’m more confident now we’ll retain our big players than I was a couple of months back. Really need to decide what we’re doing with people like Gigot. Beginning to look a daft signing if we don’t know what to do with him.

If we can get Battye in then great, but think we need to look at the other front row options as for me we can probably get better in to replace Koppy and Green.

Indeed

Koppy, Green, Navarette, Gwaze and Tangata as it stands wont be part of the 2021 squad.

We have

Fifita, Arona and Aydin under contract.

I think 2 strong quality props are a must and very important signings with the yards we struggled with in a lot of the games. I’d be happy to retain one of Tangata or Navarette for rotation/back up also which would give us 6 props.

I’d keep them both.

Hmmm...not sure on Tangata (although TBF he hasn't done a lot wrong), but would probably give Navarette another season.

Not had many chances to be fair. He’s a big unit and actually does make the hard yards. Both are known quantities and really shouldn’t be judged on this season. In fairness very few should, only those who didn’t produce what we know they can are imo questionable, I suppose Fifita falls into that group but even the id tend to be lenient.

Tangata is just a workman like prop for me, as you say doesn't do much wrong and gets through the hard yards - The only thing is he will limit us in terms of a quota spot so for me it is all dependant on if we are planning on bringing in any quota players for next season (I know we are looking at at least one).

Josh Papalii ???

Will be interesting to see what happens with Fifita because I thought he was starting to get into stride in the last 2/3 games and I really hope he stays. I'd keep Tangata, less sure about Navarette but as has been said it's hard to judge either fairly on most of this season. We still need to add up front irrespective

If we could keep one of Navarette or Tangata for me it has to be Navarette, he has been quality.

I would also enquire about Battye joining us permanently if we could.

I would agree and take Navarette in front of Tangata.