I agree, cash in on tickle now with a transfer fee and then use that for Bateman. Tickle could leave for nothing the season after anyway and Bateman looks a great prospect and I'd expect us not to be the only club interested anyway.

Isn't Bateman been heavily linked with warrington?

I'd go with that mate, makes a lot of sense.

I'd make a move for whitehead and kopczack. If we signed these two I would consider selling tickle.

Latest rumours are. Matty Smith - Wigan (nearly done) Finch likely to go to Souths. Soward staying put. Chase wants out Cas want £500,000. Wigan ,and Huddersfield interested in Chase. www.dailystar.co.uk/rugby/view/2 ... rs-switch/ If we did sign Holdsworth, I'd be underwhelmed, not good enough to take us to be a top 4 side. For mine, Finch or Chase - depends if AP puts his hand in his pocket.

Latest rumours are. Matty Smith - Wigan (nearly done) Finch likely to go to Souths. Soward staying put. Chase wants out Cas want £500,000. Wigan ,and Huddersfield interested in Chase. www.dailystar.co.uk/rugby/view/2 ... rs-switch/ If we did sign Holdsworth, I'd be underwhelmed, not good enough to take us to be a top 4 side. For mine, Finch or Chase - depends if AP puts his hand in his pocket.

Quote ="weaver93"Latest rumours are. Matty Smith - Wigan (nearly done) Finch likely to go to Souths. Soward staying put. Chase wants out Cas want £500,000. Wigan ,and Huddersfield interested in Chase. www.dailystar.co.uk/rugby/view/2 ... rs-switch/ If we did sign Holdsworth, I'd be underwhelmed, not good enough to take us to be a top 4 side. For mine, Finch or Chase - depends if AP puts his hand in his pocket.'" Chase isnt worth £500,000 and would be dissapointed if we even splashed out a 1/4 of that on a very vastly over-rated player.How do you know Holdsworth isnt good enough? just because he plays for Salford????

Quote ="weaver93"Latest rumours are. Matty Smith - Wigan (nearly done) Finch likely to go to Souths. Soward staying put. Chase wants out Cas want £500,000. Wigan ,and Huddersfield interested in Chase. www.dailystar.co.uk/rugby/view/2 ... rs-switch/ If we did sign Holdsworth, I'd be underwhelmed, not good enough to take us to be a top 4 side. For mine, Finch or Chase - depends if AP puts his hand in his pocket.'" Chase isnt worth £500,000 and would be dissapointed if we even splashed out a 1/4 of that on a very vastly over-rated player.How do you know Holdsworth isnt good enough? just because he plays for Salford????

Yeah, every time I've seen Holdsworth he's looked a great player. Would be a great stand off for us IMO.

Agreed,looks a more team player and would suit us better than Chase.

If it came down to it I'm sure Cas would budge on that figure. If its true about him wanting away I hope we are in for him. He could take us to the next level imo.

ROFL. They're 'avin a larf.

Holdsworth is more of a realistic target than finch and chase, should be keeping close eye on bradford situation

Rumours are we have got the best offer on the table for Finch

If PG,wants us to play the same style,as Wests -he would fit in. Chase plays a similar style to Marshall,
PG admitted this in an interview,when we played Cas.

Personally,I wouldnt pay more than £150,000 for a quota player.,but he is a type of player who has that 'X Factor', who can get fans on the edge of their seats.

Judging by fans on Salford forum, they aint fussed if Holdsworth goes.,he is OOC in 2013.

Put it this way, I'd rather have Holdsworth than Horne at 6.

I heard the same. South's deal only one year deal.

I'd rather stick with horne than shell out a fee and be stuck with holdsworth for 2 or 3 years. He's very average

Agree with all this. Got to wonder whether the whole long term deal for Chase at Cas was designed with the eventuality of getting a big fee in mind.

With Horne at 6, our attack is pedestrian,and has no imagination,coupled with his legendary kicking game,
we'll never kick on.-IMO

While what you're saying is correct, we do really miss him when he doesn't play.

I think Holdsworths a decent player and id be quite happy to have him at Hull and hes a damn sight better than frigging Matty Smith

Chase is a nono for me. He goes missing more than he performs though that might be because of the fact that Cas arnt exactly the best side

Couldn't agree more, however a half back combination of holdsworth and seymour for 3 years is hardly going to be a grand final winning combination either. seymour is a steady type of player from what I've seen. We need someone with some spark to play alongside him

Surely Hull have already said that Horne is seen as next seasons FB anyway.

If rumours of Jamie Ellis leaving are to be believed, this means our Half Backs next year will be Seymour and............ Oh hell, that's it at this moment in time!

All the top teams have 3 quality specialist half-backs in their squads so maybe were looking at 2 signings in this area! I'd like to see a Chase or a Finch along with a good back-up player (i don't think moving Westerman or Whiting counts).

Horne can't cover as we've no real other option at full-back either! Maybe Heremaia is the answer for covering HB? Has he played much there before and was he any good ?

I'd take holdsworth but only with the right half back partner . Wouldn't think he'd work with either Horne or Seymour . Reckon him and chase would work but can't see us signing 2 half backs .

If we ended up with Holdsworth I don't think it's as bad as people are making out. He's better than Horne and is creative with a decent kicking game. Two things to his game that are better than Hornes. I would rather have Chase but we'll have to fork out over £100,000 for him and no one knows wether he'll suit our structured style.
Don't forget Wigan and Saints are after Matty Smith, which clearly shows what options are available in SL.

Why can't we sign 2 half-backs.

It's HB and Prop whch are currently priority for i think.

Despite The big wage for Ellis, surely McKinnon, Manu, Turner, Martin, Burnett, Moa, O'Meley, J.Ellis + maybe others i've forgotten, would free up plenty of cap. I can't see Pitts or Arundel being on big bucks!

We could sign 2 but doubt there's enough quality about to get 2 , plus other clubs are chasing half backs as well .