You need to remember the current state of our club. We don't sign even half decent players without either paying them over the top wages or offering more years than other clubs. We are not an attractive option right now. Even the average players we've signed wouldn't have come here for only 1 year. Players need security.
The hope is next year these players, along with new coaching staff and back room teams, will stem the tide of hammerings we took last year and hopefully challenge for 8th or so. That will then show players for 2026 we may be a team worth joining and who wants to help with the playoff push, and continuing to build from there.
This is obviously stuff you have been told a hundred times in the past but you choose to consistently ignore and continue to expect us to sign players who just aren't available or flat out don't want to come to the club. It's a multi year project to get even a sniff of playoffs again.

Sure it was in 1985, the price of a pint of went up to £1

Of what? If bitter, in 1985 Bongser was working as a potboy at The Woolpack in Leigh Bus Station and Tetley was 80p a pint. Remember being in a girlfriend's house when in my 3rd or 4th year at the RNCM when a television news item announced that Tetley had gone up to £1. That would have been ca '88 or '89. Whilst working for Welsh National Opera in '92/3, got a call from Bro to tell me that Joseph Holts Best Bitter was a hitting a quid the following day. Immediately got a train from Cardiff Canalog to Manc Picc and a bus to Astley where, in the Cart & Horses, joined 'the lads' to sup the last 'pence only' pints. A false economy, yes, but only just - we supped the pub dry!!!

[quote="The Cooke Report":2jphg8i3]“ I was approached in July about a move to Hull” the fact you chose to stay and see your contract out means money isn’t everything? “ money in a short career is always important but so is winning. Being in a winning team is the pinnacle of playing” Hull have struggled for 5 years so the attraction isn’t as high as other clubs? “ This is a short career and you can’t be in teams for 3-4 years in hope, you need to join a winning team and add to it. I can’t see me choosing a team that won’t be challenging” LL.[/quote:2jphg8i3] LL???? Did Hull FC try to sign Luke Littler???

The C0ck report.

[quote="Ellam":btt32j2w]The C0ck report.[/quote:btt32j2w] Desperate Dan Tomlinson?