Chill out man just a bit of banter juice in the off season.......
Our season was over in August but yours was over in April.

No no no no no Bantman! Our season wasn't over till Leigh beat Hudds! April would have been nice.

For any cas fans not familiar with this board and its inhabitants, it's worth noting that a proportion of the leeds fans currently singing the praises of Gale and Powell would be those complaining the loudest had we captured either.
FWIW, I'm with Sal on this: if we go down the route of new coaching staff they should offer a vision of how the team should play that differs significantly from current SL coaches.

For myself, Cas were the team I most enjoyed watching last year. I'd be very happy to watch us matching their style of attacking rugby instead of our headless chicken approach.
However, that requires players who can play to a pattern & throw decent passes when required, to the right & the left.

If we get back to our 2015 style that will be good enough, we totally the invented the wheel with our open style of play then

Powell has come up with a philosophy that wins games despite being the underdogs. Shaun Wane has done likewise. I know which team I would rather watch.

I'm not sure Wigan are underdogs all that often though I agree with the principle. I'd rather have McD for ten more years than wane for 1.

Someone at the club has told me Hardaker to Cas on one year loan with Cas only responsible for a small part of his cost. Review at the end of the year. Personally, I'm not sure he is worth the risk given it's only 6 miles to the Warwick estate.

So we free up very little of his salary and consequently cannot afford to bring in a decent player with any sort of quality

The full cap value of a loaned player counts on the loaning teams cap, regardless of who is actually paying his wage.

Cas have announced their 34 man squad is complete. Denny remains and no Zak. Surely he stays at Leeds ?

Powell stated the squad is complete. No Zak.

I recon Hudds with Leeds getting Brough or Brierly.

I did wonder about brierly. Seems he isn't wanted at hudds, reminds me a bit of a younger mags with his pace, support and eye for the try line.

Problem is, he isn't what we need at the moment. I wouldn't be adverse to having him in the squad but we still need a halfback who can organise.

I didn`t know that, cheers

Can't see Hudds letting Brough go in all honesty. Zak for Brierly is more realistic but as others have said, what we need is someone to organise this team, not another off-the-cuff type of player.

brierley will do nicely for zak. Lets face it were losing zak either way so may as well have a decent player as opppsed to an "undisclosed fee" deal that we see nothing for/garys family paid holiday.

I know what you're saying, but it's a shame it's got to this point as putting the issues with Zak aside it's not a good deal. If Zak must go though it looks like one of the better options. But if you added Brierly to the team last year I'm not sure the season would have ended any differently.

Zak for Brough is a fantastic deal.

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Haha.Nice bit of work there Nigel.

But he would be OUR cretin. Wonder what made me say cretin? I never use that word.

We have to sell Hardaker as his salary still remains on our cap if we loan him out and it appears from what GH is saying they've already spent his salary on Segaro/Ferres update. Not sure where the Achurch salary has gone !!

Or falloons or sinnys or peacocks or kylies

Probably a fair bit on upgrades to existing player contracts plus Galloway and Ferres (who will have another upgrade from 2017)

Should be some spare cash though i agree.

Yea people seem to forget that to keep the likes of Watkins we will have had to increase his wage significantly. Its not like we can keep him on his accede my wage!
Same goes for Hall Moon and probably Sutcliffe