we matched over 3 years what he could make in 2 with saints that's not doing what he wanted is it!! its a no brainer for manu to go to saints he had no choice really a years salary is a lot of money and if he starts playing better he will get offered another year with saints anyway!!
im not hammering the club i just have an opinion about a certain subject the recruitment this year was all average because we signed big money Ellis we could of had bateman or whitehead if we had got in there quick enough and thrown money at them Bradford was a shambles and we should of took advantage of that!!
we should of kept manu and sold tickle now we will just lose him without no money coming back!!
i just think things could of been handled better and think mCrae had a lot to do with it tbh he screwed up alot of negotiations and he has no value at the club what so ever!!
gentle should do all the talking and negotiating to potential recruits end of!!
anyway none of this can be rectified now no matter how much we want it we will have to make do with what we have unfortunately

He's one of our best players so far this year, a great find from Fev's u-20s!

This is the unfortunate downside to Dual-Reg though, as this means that Jamie Shaul has nowhere to play.

East Hull ?

Unfortunately never made it into a proper rumour; but Gareth Widdop has signed for the Dragons: www.dragons.com.au/news-display/72816

Unfortunately never made it into a proper rumour; but Gareth Widdop has signed for the Dragons: www.dragons.com.au/news-display/72816

I was saying that there has been a lack of any sort of recruitment strategy for years or at least if there was one it's not been applied properly resulting in us signing players just because they're available without any thought to the future. BUT even with the best strategy it will not be possible to find a place for everyone because of the uncertainty of whether a player will develop the way you think , the sometimes randomness of when players "break through" and because there is always a pressing need to put out a competitive team. In Shaul's case it appears that he wasn't thought to be ready when we signed McDonnell , whether that was right or wrong is difficult to know especially as we've seen him play only one SL game to date. The important thing is to make sure that your system produces numerous youngsters that can become SL standard so that when this sort of thing happens we accept it on the basis that we can't accommodate every player all of the time. It's a balancing act but one that I think the current regime are paying attention to. Of course the U19's system to say the least doesn't help.

I don't think the May 1st anti-tampering deadline is going to help matters either.

Clubs are going to have to make difficult decisions about players like Shaul much earlier than they should need to.