The latest amendment to the 67 volumes of oversesas quota regulations issued last week confirm that a non fed player who was signed prior to 2008 can now come off quote IIRC.

Obviously we should try and keep Menzies. He's our most dependable and consistent player. He's an example to all those young kids coming through.

Absolutely we should re sign him.
If Morro is off quota too, I'd like to see him given another 12 months

Cheers for that, but my question was not so much about the quota rules, more I was getting at should we be resigning two backrowers of their....experience shall we say. Rather than promoting some of our junior talent - a fair few of whom are backrowers.

If its a case of resigning a fully fit and firing Menzies and Morrison and giving enough game time/development to Olibson, Whitehead, Donaldson, Cook(?) etc then fine. Im just wary of blocking the opportunities for our next generation of players, in which case maybe resigning one of the two might be a better balance for the squad?

Both Morrison and Menzies are good enough to resign looking at them individually, but we need to think of the bigger picture.

Solomona really should not be considered for an extention IMO.

Agree, time for him to go IMO

yep, if he had been playing for another club this past couple of years with the same output as he's given us and had this current injury would we be looking to bring him in for next year? No, quite rightly we would not, the same logic should apply to resigning him IMHO. Time to move on for us and him.

Well I certainly wouldn't let him build mine.

I'm pretty sure Solo is on his way.

That should hopefully free up a substantial amount of salary that can be used to address weaknesses in the halves and threequarter line.

All three of our first choice second row forwards are off contract at the end of the season, out of them I would definatley only re-sign one of them, that would be Menzies, I would definatley not re-sign Solomona and I'm undecided about Morrison, but at the moment given his injury/games missed record I'm leaning to not resigning Morrison also. Given the capture of Glenn Hall I believe we should drop Burgess back into the second row, and if we released Morrison I would drop Nero into the second row also and go on and sign a established or promising centre. Assuming that we re-sign Lynchy, Menzies and Newton for nest season, the pack I would choose to start the games would be this.

Lynch. Newton. Hall. Burgess. Menzies. Langley.

Assuming that we re-sign a fully fit Morrison for next season I would go with this pack to take to the field next season.

Lynch. Newton. Hall. Burgess. Morrison. Langley. Subs: Menzies

Menzies coming off the bench for impact as he has done for Manly over the past few years. He's very effective in this role and it would allow us not to wear him out as much therefore getting more impact from him.

Don't forget the impact the WORRLORD has off the bench.

The wider effect of this on the local economy could be disastrous - Dominos alone might have to close down in Bradford

I think that was the idea for this year. However due to injury he's been doing 80 min stints.

Menzies and Worrancy off the bench would be awesome

Hence him wanting to stay in West Yorks! I believe the Government are working on a recession busting scheme to prop up fast food businesses in the are if he moves away.

They are indeed. I received a letter from them the other day asking if I would be interested in the position.

Indeed I'm sure the young ones would agree that the more beaver is around the better

Totally agree 12 months for beaver would do nicely
Give Morro 2 year deal and get rid of Solomona too injury prone to risk giving him a new contract.

Morrison is just as injury prone as Solomona, and arguably, when on form, he is a more skilful player than Morrison. Depending on both situations at the end of the season it should be a 1 year contract for none, either or even both depending on fitness.

Yes. Nice and simple.

Who are OOC at the end of the season, just out of interest?

Paul Sykes HOME GROWN
Semi Tadulala OVERSEAS TRAINED
Ben Jeffries OVERSEAS TRAINED
Terry Newton
Andy Lynch
Steve Menzies OVERSEAS TRAINED
Glenn Morrison OVERSEAS TRAINED
Matt Cook HOME GROWN
Dave Halley HOME GROWN
Matt James HOME GROWN
Julien Rinaldi OVERSEAS TRAINED
David Solomona OVERSEAS TRAINED
James Donaldson HOME GROWN
Duane Straugheir HOME GROWN

cribed from the squad detail thread and I've kept the quota implications on as thats going to be a consideration as to who we try to keep.

In order of Priority to resign:

Lynch
Menzies
Newton
Sykes
Halley
Rinaldi
Morrison
Jeffries
Solomona
Cook
James

Didn't include Donaldson and Straugheir because they're not really fully first team.

At least Sheriffe's OOC in 2010, I thought it was three years, it's only 2. Platt and Godwin are both 2011 and they are 2 which I wish were OOC at the end of this season.

You serious?

Lynch
Newton
Cook
Sykes
Menzies
Halley
Jeffries
Morriso
James
Rinaldi

Cook and James above Rinaldi? Menzies behind Sykes and Cook?

Rinaldi

Hell Yeah, Matt Cook is one of our most important players for the future, if we lose him then we will have lost a gem that will be hard to replace. Matt James is also a good player and important to our future, both of these 'homegrown' lads should be signed on long term deals and given priority over a short term average overseas player who is unlikley to improve much beyond his current ability.

Menzies.

Whilst I appreciate that Menzies is a very good player for us, Cook is more valuable long term and could very well turn out to be a superstar in his own rights. Menzies is short term, Cook will be around for a lot longer and will become a very good player, we need to prioritise him. Sykes is another long term player for us and whilst I don't think he is the best player his HG status is very valuable to us.