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Rubbish, been a real stand out this year and it's a real bummer to lose him just as he's fulfilling that early potential. I also feel he's selling himself short and could do better.

I agree. He could be at a bigger club if not with us.

Eh? He’s off to a bigger club

Talk of Aydin leaving last night. Also heard Shaw has been in talks with Wigan. Both just rumours but if true seems a worry.

You win some you lose some but Trinity will do just fine with or without him.

I do concur though that he’s sold himself short. HKR is the sort of club where players tend to sink more often than swim. I like Batch so hope he swims but there are other clubs where he’d have done far better.

The thing is we all know that a huge clear out is required. Obviously nobody would have picked Batch but none of us know Pochings vision and sometimes you just can’t fit everyone in.

I think it’s obvious the route we are taking next season. A mix of experience and youth. It a gamble but if it pays off we are laughing, if not then here we go again.

Whatever we can’t complain at Poching doing exactly what we wanted but then having a pop because it’s not the players we would chose.

I’m nervous but frankly I’d be just as nervous if we’d kept him and all the others. Despite our recent revival the current squad has little future and needs drastic surgery.

No he’s going to a club that get bigger gates, not the same thing.

HKR as a team, mid range this season and next. That to me is a move for money not success. I don’t blame him but let’s be honest.

Talk is cheap.

Good luck fella been my player of the season,hope you left because it was your decision. Not trinity politics contracts/money etc. I really hoped we'd try to reward his efforts but then i should know better. Enjoyed watching you play pal all the best!

I agree with you Vastly and on Princes points now we are safe or should be some of these players maybe retained. I hope the club looks after these lads we have invested in previous rumours of peanuts being offered if true needs to change. It's pointless investing in these lads if the next stage is to exploit their loyalty. Invest more locally v overseas.
Clear out probably beginning now then Willy can truly put his stamp on the team.

As for Batch he has improved tremendously good luck to the lad never sold himself short for the team. This season has been his best even if as a team it's been poor.

Aydin was mentioned by o connor during commentary. Said he is leaving at end of season

Big loss and pretty gutting but what will be will be.

Seriously have to consider future payments to 1873 squad builder and season ticket now.

What's the point in bringing on this type of player only to lose them when coming into their prime, and understand we cant keep them all, but Batch and the likes of Crowther are (were) the immediate future

Don't normall question the board but I need to know why this as been allowed to happen

Not happy about this at all

HKR are getting a player coming into his prime. He has been outstanding this season. I for one am absolutely gutted. I really hope we tried to keep him and haven't lost him due to penny pinching.

Are we really taking our cues from Sky commentators now? I have no idea about Aydin’s future but I’m pretty sure O’conner doesn’t either. The Sky pundits are well known for picking up gossip on these forums and repeating them verbatim.





Every year we do this, why not wait and see it’s not like we can do owt about it. Players come and go and the occasional good Trinity teams tend to come from nowhere.

I was watching Gale yesterday and if that rumours true I’d be delighted. He’s got years in him yet and a club like ours would suit him fine, Finn mark two. No idea if it’s true though.

I look forward to next season purely because we have nothing to lose. As we are we will eventually be relegated. If we tear up the rule book who knows, poop or bust.

It’s the Trinity way!

But you do know the reason, money! We got outbid it’s that simple. I’m not MC but he has always been clear he will not spend what we don’t have. We can’t have it both ways.

Also we’ve had five seasons from Batch so I think we got our monies worth.

Strange and really new situation for the club to be in. So many quality young lads coming through the club system that it's going to be impossible holding on to them all.

We offered him a 10% increase so all his agent had to do was tout round for 11% I guess.

Certainly is a positive and like you say some will move on. But with Batch he was the finished product and I think we will struggle to replace him with someone as good. Dont know if Pitts is going round again but if he is, to be paying for him and loosing batch is bad business.

Ashurst too, as good a player he has been for us. That two year deal could've been a one year with then balance been used to retain Batchalor, if it was money and not a change of scenery that is the main driver of the move.

PB you've been around the game long enough to know that sometimes a player just wants to go. It may be nothing to do with us. Somebody may have got into his ear and not just his agent, when that happens you can negotiate only so long.

Tere is talent coming through but clearly there will be a time lag, unfortunate but that's how it goes.

Really? The way he's playing at the moment 2 years doesn't look enough.

unless we are going to say move reece Lynn to back row then we are probably having to pay more out for his replacement than what he was offered to get someone as good. We have also ended up with a situation of bringing in players who never play so we have completely wasted money. Evans, devantula, minns, butler, just panic signings in the hope they work. Everyone is struggling to bring forwards through and we get batch and maybe yusif and we let them go, it's a strange one

He's doing well but at the twilight of his career, Batch is about to enter his prime and is pretty versatile. Anyhow it is what it is.

whilst it is great for the club to be bringing players through and I'd love to see the club full of local lads, we have got to look at it and think are we going to give say hall and Murphy the help and guidance needed to kick themselves and our club on to better things. It's all well and good producing players but no good if we're still at the bottom of the league. I suppose it depends if all that matters is survival every season