Dean yes, Massey no. Experience is a good thing to have, but not too many. Sure he had a few fitness issues last year and old forwards are generally busted.

Powell is a big Massey fan. Regards him as Mr Reliable. It’s a long time ago (2017) but Massey was reported as being first name on the teamsheet at Cas and with the lower standard of rugby in the championship it wouldn’t be much of a surprise to see Powell put his faith in him again.

So now Hood is confirmed for 2024 we have the following confirmed:

Jowitt
Gale
Lino
Hood
Doyle
Kay
Ashurst
Pitts

Still around 17 players to be announced hopefully boosted with a few young players/loan players after the 25.

I mean he’s 34 and I think we need a few players late 20s in the forwards.

6 of the 8 players signed up are 30-36 years old with the forwards closer to 35 than 30.

By season starts

Kay - 32
Gale - 35
Lino - 30
Ashurst - 34
Pitts - 34
Hood - 32

Jowitt - 26
Doyle - 24

Some experience is good but too many seasoned players might backfire as fev found out.

I'd rather pick on talent and resilience than age.

I missed Griffin - 33

As would I but i would see most of that list other than Jowitt or Doyle and Griffin as steady players.

I’ll hold my water as I’m looking forward to seeing who gets announced but we need some quality building around what we have got. Some size and punch in the forwards and some quality and speed on the edges.

I’m hopeful and excited to see the announcements.

When was Doyle announced?

About a month ago.

Quote ="REDWHITEANDBLUE"When was Doyle announced?'" https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport/ru ... 792206.amp https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/r ... 783898.amp Examiner and Hull daily confirming the signing.

Quote ="REDWHITEANDBLUE"When was Doyle announced?'" https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport/ru ... 792206.amp https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/r ... 783898.amp Examiner and Hull daily confirming the signing.

1. Jowitt
2. Kay
3. Croft?
4. Dagger?
5.
6. Gale
7. Lino
8. Bowden?
9. Hood
10. Atoni?
11. Ashurst
12. Griffin
13. Pitts
14.
15. Doyle
16. Shaw?
17.

Here you go.

Would like to see Atoni and Croft sign up and Bowden could be a solid experienced prop.

Powell is proven to be very reluctant to pick younger players and puts great store in experience. The problem is older players get injured more.
Fingers crossed the spine of the team stay fit.

Hence the question marks. Couldn't remember the Dagger announcement though.

Quote ="Trojan Horse"https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/wakefield-trinity-target-keighley-cougars-27792206.amp https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/r ... 783898.amp Examiner and Hull daily confirming the signing.'" So no announcement yet from Wakefield then?

Quote ="Trojan Horse"https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/wakefield-trinity-target-keighley-cougars-27792206.amp https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/r ... 783898.amp Examiner and Hull daily confirming the signing.'" So no announcement yet from Wakefield then?

Yeah, defo want to see Atoni signed especially. We need his size and would be an absolute menace in that League. Similar to Croft, a year building up his confidence and skills under Powell will do him the world of good. Also, Bowden would do a really good job in the Championship and imo we need a decent-sized pack that can bully sides to open up our attacking threat. We need to get Tanginoa signed for the next couple of seasons as well. He was a proper handful in SL so imagine him in the Championship, obviously last season he only managed 7 games, so as long as his injury is managed and assessed going forward well, he'd be one of the first names on the team sheet IMO. As I already mentioned last season was a bit of right off for him but on the whole, he's been a really reliable player for us clocking up 87 games in his 5 seasons so far and he'd still be 29 when next season starts. I also wonder what's gonna happen with Kershaw because I think he'd score a bucketload in the Championship with the right attacking structure and .

Matt Ellis has said he's gonna basically close to a full cap hasn't he, so I'm interested to see what overseas he's gonna bring in, or at least Powell. A signing like Brenko Lee would be a great eye-opener to lots of RL fans and he's a top player. Cade Cust would have been a top signing but we're covered in all the positions he plays and probably wouldn't come down a tier. There's been a couple mentioned earlier in this thread that would be very interesting if we could tempt them over. Ateotd there have been some good overseas players played in the Championship, particularly when Clubs have had the money to spend on them. We just have to narrow the guys that want to make the move over here the best ones we can afford, and make sure they're the right fit for us and us for them

As for Brits, Luis Johnson would do well in the Championship, still only 24 and a fairly local lad, also a decent-sized guy at 6 foot 3 and nearly 100KG. At one time I'd have jumped at James Greenwood but god knows what's going on with his body these last few years, he's been robbed of his prime years just about looking from the outside. Has Dan Norman definitely been signed by Leigh for next year, I know they were interested in having him over there full-time after his short loan spell but can't remember if he's signed, he'd be a great addition for us, but maybe at his age he see's himself in the SL.

Was reading brenko Lee has gone concreting! Someone mentioned Waqa Blake too.

I'd like to think Powell will be able to attract good players we haven't heard of. We don't need to just follow the merry-go-round now. We can find new in the lower Australian leagues.

Yeah, I read that, isn't it because he's keeping himself busy while he hasn't got a club sorted though? Blake would be another great signing but you'd think he'd fancy SL unless we can put together a good package for him and he buys into what we're doing.TBH they're similar kinds of players in as far as they're big guys that play in the or Wing. Be good to get a quality though after Tupou either way.

About Reece Lyne? this is from a month ago though.

Attract yes but to get a Visa could be a problem

No, just confirmation of the signing from media outlets.

The announcement may come soon. We will have to be patient and wait.

Oh yes. Good point.

Just a point of note, Ellis hasn’t said we’ll be spending full cap this coming season, only that it will be a ‘healthy budget’ and Ste Mills has stated ‘the budget will be one of, if not the strongest in the Championship’. I think we need to be realistic about our recruitment this year. The spending will increase if/when we are back in super league.

Correct, but the other side of that particular coin is, if you come out and state "we will spend full cap", "biggest budget in the Championship" etc, the agents demands go up 20%.

Slowly, slowly, catchy monkey.

Very true, although with some players we will likely have to pay a premium to get them to drop down to the championship. It’s likely to affect squad size as much as anything.