Thats a very valid point, you can`t have someone who is going to be third choice half back/hooker taking up a vital quota spot, theres no room for sentiment and if he can`t find another club then we`ll have to look at paying him off.

Moran was quick enough to pay one of wire's players off last year,and hopefully Pearson will act similar.

obst will go,sharp will go add there money and spot combine with radders money makes for a decent overseas signing! thats what it seems to me based on fact i was told weeks ago about obst, and sharp early last week!

How about Tom Burgess at bulls? Wigan and Wire appear keen,but he's young and can play prop or 2nd row.

I would prefer the club take their time on this again and not rush into another Tony Martin signing, with Radders retiring there should be cap space left so I hope they take their time, deal with Obst professionally (we are not Rovers) and get the right man, they don't have to be here right now.

why how much does he get paid?

Around 75-80k at a guess.He was on less at wakey,and will have worked a higher salary out of hull.

seems an awful lot of money for someone who is clearly going to be way down the pecking order eh??
would you guess thats an average wage for a mid placed player in a squad or is that high cash to pay... i dont know never been close to knowing sorry hope you dont mind me asking but really curious

The cap is about £1.6 million for the top 25 earners, iirc. If a team is paying full cap, that is an average (mean) wage of £64k.

Jeez so on that equation it means he is on a freaking lot of money for a fringe player at best ????
you watch he will go on and be this years man of steel now ha ha

Our injuries last year to Long,Horne and Nicklas dictated how much we had to pay sam,otherwise we may have missed out and had no-one in the halves!

I like Sam Obst, especially as an impact player of the bench, but like people have said, it's just not feasible to keep him.

Lauaki announced by Wigan on a three year deal, with the option of a fourth.

It was agreed months back.He will either bomb,or be a bloody revelation!

Fools. They obviously dont want to be SL champs again.

Signing a 3 year deal with a top 4 club..Thats a great deal for someone who has done nothing special for the last 2 years.....i bet he bit there hands off!!

Ok mate

Begs the question, IF we couldnt release Obst,
Why sign Heremiah??

This is a consequence of the signings made by the old regime, nothing to do with the new board/coaching set up. I honestly believe that none of the overseas signings we have made would have happened had Pearson/McRae/Gentle been in charge at the time.

Thats a strong statement considering the new regime brought in Martin, dont you think?

That sort of proves my point, they have little scope to manoeuvre now because of the signings already made. Salary and quota space had already been used.

Just pay Obst off, that will solve one problem!

In view of whos actually coming over to SL this year i dont think weve done too bad with the overseas recuitement tbh. Its Seymour thats messed us up because he became unexpectedly available otherwise Obst would of probably been one of our halfs along with Horne and Ellis. Now and with Seymour coming in hes gonna find himself frozen out so the club should do the right thing, pay him off, and let him find a new club and if he ends up quids in because of it then fair play to him because none of this is his doing.

I'm not suggesting our recruits are poor far from it, however I feel the new regime may have targetted other players.

but one thing is for sure we will never know will we, so lets just say that the boys we have coming in are all quality to a degree so lets all be thankful
some spent all last year wanting to "bin" some of the dead heads and now thats been done we got to run with what we have so cmon the new season
the real difference will be a coach with an actual game plan, something we clearly lacked last year , under PG last years team would have faired better