Has looked good in the NRL games i have seen this season.......Cant help feeling a tad jealous



Hope he goes well for you


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Don't agree with that one. Most folk have been aware for some time of the calibre of player we are looking to bring in. Tronc / Newton / Morrison are all QUALITY players and will make a difference to the quality of play we produce. I don't believe that this would be a primary reason for any player leaving - but I could be wrong!

Nevermind the negative rumours, lets stick to positive news.

Excellent signing. Seen him a couple of times and been impressed and the stats back it up. He has everything that JK likes in a player and a bit more.

Now get us the 6 to play outside Brough and the signature of Snitch and i will happily go with that

PS Having said that im not sure who out of the current players are OOC at the end of the season?? As far as i am aware the following are OOC

Bibb
Rooney
Obst
Wilkes
Drew
Martin
Snitch ??
JD??
Bibey??
Henderson
Sculthorpe

Are there anymore? Are the ones with ?? OOC? Have we re-signed any already?? What about Korki, is there a deal to be done cos if we lose Wilkes along with Sculthorpe that leaves us a little light in the front row.

Don't know about Snitch seems that it was announced he'd signed a 2 year deal but it was actually a 1 year deal with an option of a 2nd year. Though it does appear he might be staying now.

As to Korki I guess it depends if Hudds want shut of him as I can't see us paying a fee for him.

All except JD I think.

Plus Blaymire / Murphy / George.

Negotiations ongoing - internally and externally!

There is another aspect to the 'ins and outs' of players, we have lost (or possibly about to lose) from our initial 2009 squad: Rooney, Scully, Pitts, Bibb, Snitch, Wilkes. All of whom are British, so I would assume that JK, PB et al are scouring other teams in order to increase our 'Britishness' as per RFL/ESL requirements. I also assume that we are not going to fill the gap with current academy players although we need these to meet the 'home grown' quota or whatever it is. I wonder if anyone knows all the various quotas etc or does someone at RFL HQ just make them up as the need arises?

How can Snitch be out of contract if he signed a 2 year deal?

Agreed, all the press releases at the time said it was a 2 year contract, not 1 with 1 option.

But that is what we have I'm afraid!

Not really good enough from the Club that one. They have pretty much lied about the length of his contract. Every player has the 'option' of extending their contract if they and the club so wish.

Im with you why would ted be spending money on players who no doubt will be on a good wage only to lose it in a couple of years.to me if the club wasnt confident of getting a ground he would do as the past few saeson and expect kear to build a team from our lower leagues

Just to play Devils avocado for a moment, but I suppose you could argue that it could be a last throw of the dice to try and acheive something of note on the field. It would be extremely awkward for SL to kick out a side that had, for example, won the Challenge Cup or got to the SF in the play offs...

You could also argue that Ted knows we won't get a stadium and is trying to strengthen our case for SL survival by making us stronger on the field of play.

Academy is doing well
Community Dept doing well
Finances in decent order
Belle Vue tarted up
1st team doing great
Crowds erm.. were doing OK but recession and credit crunch and all that . . .

So what no stadium! . . .Can we stay in SL Please

Im not up for begging, would much prefer to buckle down and do some graft to get us to where we NEED to be. Tick every box and give them no reason to ever doubt what we bring to SL!

TRB; What can we do to help the stadium progress? what work needs volunteers? & how do i get involved?

We have a meeting coming up shortly for SWAG and we have a new agenda on board - i.e. support the application. There are some things we have tried before and some new things, which we have stayed away from, which will come into play.

Updates available in a couple of weeks - bear with us!

to play for the cascats when merge with one stadium(on paper).

A little info about Troncs game against The Titans earlier today

From the match report


GCT 18 Vs NQC 34

S Tronc
Played 50 Minutes
10 Dives for 87 meteres

Missed Tackles
0
Errors
0

Top Three Tacklers
Anthony Watts (29)
Scott Bolton (27)
Shane Tronc (27)

well soon knock that sort of attention grabbing out of him!
saw game this morning and he was awesome, really pleased about this.

From NRL stats add: no 'Ineffective Tackles' and no 'Missed Tackles'

With him and Stosic, our defense ought to be awesome in the middle of the park

no stopping them from coming from their twenty

We've signed Ronaldo?

I know its nit picking, but how can he play 50 mins without a break?

Clan

Your last lines sums it up, Belle Vue has been sold its Stanley or bust

I always enjoyed playing at Empire Stores playing fields