Shows why its important to have a good academy setup, teams like Leeds and Sts always seem to deal with injury crisis better as they can call up good players from their academy.

I was thinking yesterday, other than Lyne has Agar actually given any young players decent game time, I am fairly sure Briscoe was brought in during Sharp's time. Hodgson was given about 15 minutes, Niklas about 35.

Apparently Agar is the person who scouted the Briscoe brothers so I'd still give him some credit. And Nicklas did get injured so Agar can't be blamed for that, tbf.
I'd like to see someone like Cunningham maybe given a go in the back row instead of Lauaki who hasn't been impressing me. He was given a go last year but then dislocated his shoulder.

Ratchford has been playing centre for the majority of this season I think.

heard no more gleeson

That team has 'mid-table' written all over it.

the Sharp/Whiting combo terrifies me as the first choice lineup. Horne is no longer good enough to be our starting 6, and the pack (Moa aside) will all be over 30.

Washbrook has gone backwards in the last 2 years and should be nowhere near the squad never mind on the bench.

add to that a full back with a woeful injury record, and I think I'll be giving this 'exciting' battle for 8th spot a miss next year.

Let's just wait and see if it's true shall we?

If he does go then at least it frees up cash for 2012, as I believe his deal was heavily weighted in salary for the second year of his contract.

if gleeson isnt here then a straight replacment centre needs to be brought we spent years of using utility players in the right centre whiting,turner and horne when they aint good enough. IF gleeson is sacked then we should be looking at joe arundel from cas great young player, as for the rest of the squad we need to 2 forwards
1.mckinnon
2.
3.gleeson
4.yeamen
5.briscoe
6.horne
7.seymour
8.omeley
9.houghton
10.radders
11.manu
12.westerman
13.tickle
subs
14.moa
15.heremia
16.flanagan?
17.new prop
whiting, turner, lyne, crooks, cunningham, williams, nicklas, green, kent, obst, ellis, dowes
new backrower - would be delighted if we could get mark flanagan
new prop - burgess, johnson, patrick(unlikely), griffin, watts(unlikely)
im still concerned about the right wing situation

Would leave us very weak in the centres.

Ratchford has been playing centre this season.
There are very strong rumours though that he has signed for Warrington.
Wigan put in an offer to him but were outbid by Wire.

Are we the new Hull KR with all this foreign nobodies? What happened to Agar's excuse last year claiming he was "waiting for the right player for the right deal" when it came to signing a scrum half (before having to settle for Obst in desperation), and now he's gone out and rushed to buy a bunch of average overseas players?

Next year, we will be weaker than this year. And we've been pretty weak this year.

Pass sales will be well down next year with that squad. All the hard work of the last decade undone.

can some one post a link to the hdm page with reference Mr gleeson tried looking for it but can't seem to find a mention of it

=#FF0000No thanks - it's a load of libellous drivel and has been removed from the HDM website already.

The reminder about not discussing this still stands.

Chris

It's now been removed, and rightly so. Nothing has been confirmed yet and it is not wise to discuss anything which could cause RLFans trouble.....

I'm just expecting the bad news to come alongside the good news when that's signed, sealed and delivered later in the week!!

What he said.

The Mail have been working on a very sensitive and big Sports exclusive for the back page tomorrow I have no idea what it is.... but I wonder?

Yeah I just heard that too - Seymour in? Morgan out? Hudge sold his shares to Allam?

Possibly. Possibly. Not a chance.

I will of course eat my words if the latter is true

"James_Smailes: Id like to state the story posted by a fan on our HDM website regarding Gleeson is not true at all. Sorry for the delayed response"

Might be reading to much into it but you still got to wonder

Yes, but don't wonder on here. Ta.

It's about Rovers.

Maybe they've found out their new big screen isn't compatible with the digital switch over

My Grandma knows how to arrange so why wouldn't they.

Your grandma > Rovers

Any cryptic clues what the article is about?