Had the opportunity to meet the Melbourne Storm prior to the WCC and was told by 1 of the players and also the week after by Scott Grix that Ryan Tandy was staying behind after the Storm fly home to try for a contract within Super League as apparently he is on a short term deal at present.

Not a bad player - 2009 Grand Final winner.

Anybody!

He played at the weekend for them, seems to be in favour

I reckon Feka would be available, wouldn't be a bad signing for anyone I dont think. He's been out of favour because he lost too much weight and his power went with it, but apparently he's building that back up now.

Rumours are we're trying to offload him regardless though.

Could Trinity afford to have Korkidas and Paleaaesina as two of the four match day props though? Granted they could cause havoc for 10-15 minutes or so but once their spent it would transpire into an awful lot of work for the rest of the pack.

Don't know how true this is but heard larne Patricks name been thrown about, good strong runner, young and British seems the ideal project for jk. Him,aspinall and a prop from aus (townville) believe the club was. Have all been mentioned if the departure of tronc is almost done id expect a new signing within the coming weeks.

Larne Patrick is not available.

Not saying he is, and im sure you'll know wont you..... you'd have said broughy wasnt available 4 weeks back, both larne and aspinall names were mentioned when the loan for kirmond went through. So wouldnt be suprised if jk had a look at a possible loan move

and Huddersfield don't pay fees!

losing tronc! great! do things get any better????

Brough and tronc, two of our best players, gone in the blink of an eye.

It appears to me the best players have decided they dont want to play for wakefield....decisions that have coincidently happened in a season vital to the next lot of licence applications...do they know something we dont?

high earners leaving, average joes on low wages coming in....are we planning for life outside of SL ????

Are you really serious about this post.

Wakefield will always encounter these problems as other clubs have more clout on several fronts. The new stadium will be a massive fillip to the attraction and retention of players. The two recent losses are completely separate incidents. Tronc I am sure is finding it difficult for several reasons over here and like any decent bloke his first priotities lie with his family and there welfare.

DB is just very competative and by the sounds of it likes his ego stroking which has been done in abundance.

Get a grip and get behind your team in a more constructive manner.

someone on the Beep has suggested we are getting Stotic, V.Anderson and Halley!??

Hes made it up for a reaction Simon ignore it

ok, will do.

he just said to me I wonder how long it'll take to get on here lol

i appreciate we could be losing one of our best forwards... but.... doesnt that mean that we have brough + newton + troncs salaries left over. take away whatever cookies on. so... surely that must be a sizable amount, enough to enable us to go australia and buy a top quality player for the position we require? also, having troncs quota place gone, we can actually sign who we want as opposed to what we have to make do with due to quota restrictions.

my opinion.... aim big... attempt to sign some top draw aussie assuming we have the money now. hopefully this will draw more supporters... help us finish higher... go further in the cup... more money. then progression next year. for example. imagine we sign jonathon thurston. the potential that he brings... other players would be much more inclined to sign for us....

i doubt we would get thurston, dont get me wrong, but i think its time for us to aim big and see how it goes.

SBW wants apparently wants a return to league, may have difficulties in returning to the NRL.

sbw?

Sonny Bill Williams

him and Mason

Id take feka on loan

feka gives you 15 mins a game tronc gave you 70 of his A game

frankly this is a bigger loss than just a normal spelling prop.

Or Paul King that gives you nothing per game - Tronc is the best prop we have - but Feka for 15 minutes would be good in my books - perhaps Huddersfield will pay his wages as well as the rest of the pack?

Via the BBC website and then [url=http://www.lasttackle.com/feature_1722-nrl-gossip-3.htmlLast Tackle-Last Paragraph[/url Straight swap for Ashton Sims

Played for Fiji in the world cup iirc even though he's an Aussie ( I think ) good player from what I can recall

6ft 4; 17st. He has the size.