Overseas players:-


If/ when push comes to shove, I would lose an overseas player rather than a UK based.
The imports have to cost more with air fares, accommodation, and other ancillary costs.

Mellars - 1 more year left but he has to be better than Reece Lynn in the centre, make him earn his corn.
Poore - sorry, but cannot see anything better than our English props and his costs will far exceed UK based players.
Ali - signed for another year. Not sure.
Aiton - yawn Ellis etc, his floor pass to slow for me, great guts and defence.
Collis - class act, well worth keeping
Taitai - penalty and cock up machine

For me, Poore and Taitai. There must be £150k plus there to save, less replacement costs.

UK based
Molloy - why did we get him?
Fox/ Cockayne - sadly, Ben will probably end up at HKR, his enthusiasm is brilliant?
Wilkes - is he retiring, taken some flak /blame.

I'd lose any one apart from Aiton, Kirmond, Amor and Collis, we can build a team around these. Sadly these players are in high demand.

Very positive post. Well done

1) We don't know how much those players are on so you can't make a call on that.

2) I don't see why the overseas players should be treated any different to the English ones if they are already here.

Selling a player is based on
1) What their contract allows us to do
2) does anyone else want them
3) What they are worth to the other team (not our valuation)
4) Will we save significant money on salary
5) are they a key part of our team

And if anyone adds any more the "do we like them as a player" is always at the bottom

No one else will be leaving if we can find the 400k in the coming months.

Mathers/Ben/Fox/Mellers/Malloy/Smith/Ali could go for my money get 2 decent halfbacks and put more faith in youth Cowling Kay what happened to young Fletcher?

400k will paper over it the problems are deeper than that

More like next 6 or 7 weeks.

Tell me more. Have you seen the accounts and list of creditors ?

I thought it was obvious, £400k will see us through to next season, I understand that to be money to keep paying wages in the off season. There is certainly no talk of it being spent on anything else.
Baring in mind we have had 1000 plus ST renewals already this is a problem for down the line also.

I don't understand anything yet as I have seen no figures and I'm not aware that anyone has so I'm certainly not going to speculate on anything, positive or negative.

You and Get em on Side may be right, it may be just papering over the cracks but if you are right we may as well pack in, let the Bank of Ireland sell Belle Vue and build some houses on the site and I'll bu££er off to Florida more often with all the money I'll save because if we go under again I think that's the end of the line.

Again if you are right I cannot understand why Michael Carter and the Board don't just chuck the towel in now but they are up for the fight.

We can either carry on fighting or give in now but I'm not giving in. I've too much emotion invested in Wakefield Trinity to give up without a fight. Having said that I'm not going to "die in a ditch" for a lost cause but whilst there is hope there is life.

When everyone has written us off in the past, we have not done bad. The teams we have put together from other teams cast offs have been great. Maybe next year without the expectation thinking we can make the 8. The team can surprise a few people and we can all come back down to earth. This year 12th is disappointing but next year it would be great.

Mathers - Widnes. 2 year deal.

he'll love that on the fake pitch

He's on his way back to Cas cause your coffees that good

Nice one.

Just seen at Excape in Starbucks with DP.

Where's Excape?


Cas has got a Starbucks?


You be getting a new ground soon?

Mellers is an odd one. He did well on the wing for Crusaders. We need a strong winger and hes on good money. Lets make him earn his corn.

Lets go through the squad shall we,
Mathers - can be good when he puts his mind to it and I think with the fans behind him would put up a fight but who would offer decent money for him..
Fox - could easily be replaced with Kaye.
Collis - one of our better players who others would take from us.
Smith - done nothing at 6 but a good goal kicker and better at 4.
Cockayne - wanted by KR so let him go and play Mellars he showed at the magic game last season he has pace plus he has size.
Sykes - steady player who we need
Poore - steady player but yet to see him burst through a tackle and beat a man.
Aiton - a work horse of a player who others would take
Amor - improving all the time and another who would be welcome at other clubs.
Ali - why if we are skint did we offer an old man another contract yes been good but
Kirmond - who wouldnt want him now would bring good money.
Washbrook - good tackler but when you have said that you have said it all.
Tautai - looks like he could be good after a pre season who knows.
Tuson - looks to be a good signing but who knows after being at a top club and coming down to our level
Raleigh - if he could regain his first season form he would go well
Annakin - only knows one thing go forward and dont think we would get much in transfer for him.
Trout - the lad is just not big enough and would be a small transfer fee.
Cowling - from what we have seen he could be a handy player to keep.
Wildie - if we let Aiton go then Wildie has shown in the few games he could step up at 9.
I would imagine if we let players go it would be the ones who would command the bigger money Amor Aiton Kirmond.
Need to have a look at the lotto numbers first before I could say any more.

No pal but I bet you the total debt is in excess of 1 million pounds one of us needs to win the Euro millions

the question I'd like to know, is how this shortfall was left to happen?

Where EXACTLY did the club get their financial forecast wrong by such a staggering amount

And I assume the club will save wages in future on the person who made this colossal error?

Or was it merely from the Eric France collapse?

(that may sound shallow as I don't have much understanding in the matter.... I also like the word colossal. If it's good enough for a squid, it works for me)

Well I didn't win it last night but there's always Friday.

I too think Mellars has something to offer.
Shown he has some pace.
He certainly has the size.
Could be like a new signing if something could be made of him.
Sadly I am not convinced as to the quality of some of our 'home grown.'
Bet no one would object too strongly if the long awaited multi millionaire backer appeared and bought us a team inclusive of imports.
Seriously its all about balance.
Young lads can only be brought in one / two at a time.
Fill your team with them and they will get 'murdered' and perhaps have confidence destroyed.
We need that experienced core and I have no issues as to where we get them from as long as they perform.

It's the question I thing everyone wants answering along with why the CEO was allowed to sign Molloy and Tautai plus employee Fozzard at a time when it would have already been apparent we were skint!

Elston simply has to go

oh - I thought this would've been outlined in the "coming clean" press releases.

Agreed - making two new signings at a point when there was an obvious deficit is outrageous

at the time of the signings we was still in with a chance of a top eight finish, a gamble which didn't pay off had we made it I'm sure we would of not been aware of the impending problems