=redRed = New Signing Needed
Black = Existing squad member retained
=blueBlue = Home grown talent




[uFull Back[/u

=blueScott Yates
=redNew Signing

[uWing[/u

=bluePaddy Flynn
Dean Gaskell

[uCentre[/u

Toa Kohe Love
James Ford
=redNew Signing

[uHalf Back[/u

James Webster
Anthony Thackery
=blueDanny Hulme

[uProp[/u

Jim Gannon
Ben Kavanagh
Steve Pickersgill
=blueDave Houghton
=blueAnthony Mullally
=redNew Signing

[uHooker[/u

Mark Smith
=redNew Signing

[uSecond Row[/u

Lee Doran
Richard Varkulis
=blueShayne Grady
=blueJosh Simm
=redNew Signing

[uLoose Forward[/u

=redNew Signing

[uUtility Player[/u

=redNew Signing



I make that 7 home grown players ready for Super dooper league, I also make it that we need 7 new signings on board to get the correct balance of the team. We could be short on wingers but Ford can player there if needed as can Yates.

Anyone got any other ideas?

Has Ostick left/leaving?

what toa kohe injury has got a new deal

YOU have far far too much time on your hands VM, your husband must be fuming at the amount of time you put drivell on here

OSTICK... get rid useless, heard a rumour leeds were interested. WHY!

Hows about STFU and take a dive of runcorn bridge.

I think next years' Widnes team should be phallic shaped.

So no changes needed then.

Is your husband fuming at your pointless posting?

The new signings would have to be pretty good. As VM has said, it would leaves us very short for backs - just 5 players contracted at the minute for 5 places. Also the pack would need to strengthed beyond all recognition. At times this season we've been outmuscled by Whitehaven, Barrow, Halifax, Sheffield and Featherstone. Pickersgill should be a massive help, but there's no way in a million years that Simm and Grady can step up and fill the gap left by Fletch and Morrison. IMO Grady should stay in the centres.

If I have it right, from the squad we had at the start of the year, the following have either left already or are leaving:

John Duffy
Sam Thompson
Gavin Dodd
Michael Ostick
Iain Morrison
Brett Robinson
Lee Paterson
Loz Wildbore
Stephen Bannister
Danny Mills
Tim Hartley
Richard Fletcher

Also we had Grayshon for a long time as well

So I make that 13 players down (not mention Penny and Hall) - currently we have 2 new ones in Ford and Pickersgill, IMO we have a long way to go before we have a got a squad that can compete. As harsh as it might be, IMO we have no homegrown player who can come in and take the place of an experienced player. Fletcher, Grayshon, Morrison, Ostick, Dodd and Duffy have all been pretty decent for us and some of those are amongst the top players in the division. I think Mullally is a future star if he progresses, but Flynn aside, no one has really come through and made the shirt their own.

who has fletcher signed for ?

Dont know but he's been released by us.

surprised at that i thought he was a stand out performer for you guys.

Correct but i suppose the wages he's on and the injuries he's had the club are not willing to take the risk.

we will have him

You have only 5 players signed for 2010! is that right?

Cullen must have a big shopping list then.

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Lee Doran has improved lately but he is still a penalty machine i would have thought you would want to get rid and try to find someone else.

Being picky I don't think we can count Paddy Flynn as a home grown player. I think a club trained player has to be with his club three full years prior to his 21st birthday and I don't think Paddy would qualify.

If this is the case though how can Halifax even apply for a franchise since they dont run any reserve sides?


I think that rule will be open to discussion.

Swinton could apply if they won the NRC. The point I'm making is that it's ok waxing lyrical about our junior set up, but some of this talent HAS to filter through to the first team a lot more than it has done. It looks like Flynn won't qualify and Ostick is leaving.

The lack of a reserve side doesn't stop a club from applying. They just won't get a point - like those clubs who will still have crap stadiums in 2012. As far as i know though, plans are in place to resurrect a reserve grade team next year.

We are runing an under 20s side.

Heard a pretty strong rumour that penny will be back on a season long loan next year.

Could be but wire only have Riley and Hicks as the wingers next year as Carney is unlikely to be offered a deal. Loaning Penny out for the season would be very risky. I realise they could call him back but i dont want us to keep shipping players back on a regular basis.