I thought I was the only one to be chosen!

Where did I say something groundbreaking was happening? Stop posting absolute garbage.

I can only put out what I'm told - so just a player announcement and season long loan deals that are imminent being just two which I could class as positive developments.

Is that a Petit imminent or a real imminent as defined by the OED?

A positive announcement would be Macani has promised not to play for the rest of the season..

For once, even 'jam tomorrow' would be nice!

It depends who and how imminent, if there isn't a few coups to be pulled off before Saturday we will get punished..

Where did I say you did? I said those expecting groundbreaking when you say "something" is coming. Read properly before responding, it'll help.




Potentially the most hypocritical post in the history of the internet. Bravo.

James Davies has signed till the end of yhe season.

Decent signing. Hopefully with Peltier coming back from injury along with Roche our pack should start getting some size back. Think Davies will do well with bigger men around him. Done enough to earn a 12 month deal in his trial games IMO

Beggars can't be choosers and he seems at least ok and worth taking a punt on when we need forwards we can sign permanent. No brainer in the situation we're in I would say.

I'm happy with that.

He's clearly not the finished article yet and needs game time, but he's a big lad and he's keen to improve - what's not to like?

Hopefully we'll see the return of Murray and Lilley soon. Think Oledzki may be at Leeds for a bit longer now he's made his debut.

Would be nice to get someone like Cameron Smith from Leeds on loan too.

Clearly getting quality loan players will be the key to us stopping up this season.

Or his namesake from Melbourne? He would do a job spelling Moore

I heard rumours we were trying to get the Leeds version on loan earlier this season.

Don't know a lot about him; what position is he? Decent player?

Read on their board he was the next big thing coming through if im right think his brother is the kid at warrington morgan. Reading the leeds board they are saying he hasnt stepped up that bit further this year and needs to if he wants to get closer to appearing for the first team. Seems a very promising player though

A promising young talent with a point to prove, sounds ideal to me.

I would love to know how Chalmers and Lowe are going to achieve the RFL's bright and exciting future with no capital investment whatsoever?

At first I thought or hoped they were a front for Koukash, it is now agonisingly clear that is not the case..

I would think that Toovey must be wondering what next also. How the lads maintain morale is a credit to the staff.

Well, let's not forget that we have just offered a contract to James Davies. We also offered one to Chisholm, rightly or wrongly, so clearly there are some funds available.
Also, to date, there hasn't been a sniff of late payment to staff, no winding up petitions, no disgruntled creditors etc. etc.

Could it be that, finally, we are actually being managed properly and living within our means?

I remember saying I'd settle for a nice dull period of no bad news off the field. So far so good.

Edited for accuracy

Except for being accused of illegally tapping up contracted players



But that's better than what most of our bad news in recent times has been!

Living within your means is one of those fine-sounding phrases that don't always quite fit the bill. It's abut like eating up your greens, you know you should, but what you want is the ability to feast on steak, Whitby fish n chips, or giant stuffed crust pepperoni pizzas.

What I want is not to live beyond our means, but to have owners who possess substantial and liquid means, plenty of which they are happy to spend on our living.

The sad truth is that even if we were getting 10k crowds, that doesn't let you compete with teams owned by ambitious and relatively minted owners. That's how it is. Sure, for now, I'll settle for stability - it's nice to go a few months with no money panic news -but I hope we aren't going to be an also- ran with no ambition. And ambition costs. Finally, in the medium term, we'll never keep any of the great young prospects we keep turning out. Losing all of them has for me been probably the most painful part of recent years.