Looking at the players leaving, and those coming in for next year, I can't see where our on field leadership will come from.
Dobbo would be an option, but for one thing he has enough on his plate being our main creative player, but as well as that, it didn't go that well for us with him in that role at the start of the season when Galea and Green were missing.
i don't think any of the new signings fit the bill either, unless we have a surprise coming in. We seem to have gone from having a pool of seior players who could fill the role in Vella, Newton, Galea, Briscoe etc to having virtually none.

Captain: Dobbo
Vice Captain: O'hara

Captain : Dobson
Vice Captain : Burns

Leadership Team : Welham, Withers, Paea and O'Hara.

Which proves my original point, where will our on field leadership come from?

All the above!

I'd replace those with Paterson, Hodgson and Lovegrove.

Josh Hodgson is natural captain material, leads by example and is a right gobby get, perfect.

Tuimavae = forward leader

Thats good to know Roops,we certainly need some leaders, i for one next year would make Lovegrove skipper knows the club inside out and always gives everything to the cause.

If Salter gets dropped to accomodate the return of Welham then its a complete travesty. Welham should be trained in the close season to play on the wing. Would make a far better winger than he ever will centre.

Salter is one of the finds of the season and outplayed Webster for me. He should be in the starting line up and other players to battle their way back into the team.

salter and welham should be 1st choice centre,s and josh hodgeson an easy choice captain

lovegrove captain for me. agree that there arnt too many leaders in the squad but think a few more signings are to come

Must be quite a few players coming in who haven't yet been announced?

The OP is correct and , as a kinda neutral , I agree with the sentiment.

Rovers will struggle with getting out of the bottom 3 next season , they are cutting about 500,000 off their cap and paying existing players less (Lovegrove for one ).

This really impacts on performance and moral and with no real leaders you will struggle. If this ws happening at FC I would be fearing the worst due to the above - MORAL .

Bulls , if they stay in SL , will do the same , cut back to 1 million on the cap as they strive to break even. Maybe FC will in 2 years time as AP runs out of patience if we don't break 14,ooo or make a Final etc

Morale

Tarquin seems to be someone who has inside information about a number of clubs. Must be nice to know the financial details, especially about players salaries.

Ah, I thought everyone was going to start sleeping with each others wives again.

The one problem there is Lovegrove is one of the interchanges and the skipper needs to be on the field for as long as possible IMO, Dobbo is an obvious choice, but it might take him away from his creative duties. If Hall is given a regular position, he would be worth a punt at skipper.

Spot on. Lovegrove stayed for a pay cut.

In other news, flying pigs spotted over West Park.

Absolute Rubbish, the players you speak of and seem to think you know on a personal basis are quite happy to stay at the club, in fact Lovegrove is on record as saying he was more than happy to have signed a deal for his extended stay at the club even though he apparently had other offers elswhere.
With regards to cutting the wage bill, that is a sensible move given the current climate and the state of the rugby leagues finances as a whole, at the end of the day all clubs have to get value for their money invested, but players such as Clinton and Webster for example were poor value for money, we will get much better value from the players who will be replacing them imo.
If i were a Hull fan i would be praying that Adam Pearsons speculative gamble of pays off and they achieve success plus the 14000 or so they will need every week to break even because if thing dont work out, then Hull Fc could well find themselves in a similar position to the Bradford Bulls current one in a few years time.

How have the cuts raised £100,000 I two posts? Who've we sacked now?

If you are intent on coming on here, expecting us to believe you know the remuneration policies of a company 10,000 miles from where you live, it would help your credibility if you could at least know how to use the quote function.

It's not rocket science =#FF0000idiot*!

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Rover 49 hally skipper give yoyr head a bang.