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Amongst other comments we're talking to some of the younger players and looking to sort out commitments earlier. AP said recently he was surprised about the fact in RL you have a lot of player OOC in the current season.

Gentle also references short term pain for building something better. And the number of players committed until 2014 is 8.


Seymour
Houghton
Lynch
Westerman
O'Carroll
Bowden
Pitts
Heremaia?


Interesting their move to go for longer deals. Gives you greater stability but less flexibility, I suppose. I think we should tie Houghton down for 5 years, personally. Best (OK, only) quality player we've produced in the last 10 year when you think about it, great attitude, why wouldn't we?

Think its wise getting your players tied down to longer deals, Hope Tickle follows Lynchy and signs an extension

Dont think tickle will sign (hope he does tho) I thought he wanted a release at the end the season to move closer to wigan

One thing I like about next years squad is that we should have very few overseas players.

Seymour
Heremia

Are the only 2 signed on.

I think we will sign a halfback and a prop from the NRL. Leaving us with only 4 overseas player, which would be excellent.

We go public over extension talks with manu - he doesn't sign
We go public over extension talks with turner- he doesn't sign
We don't mention extension talks with lynch- he signs
We go public over extension talks with tickle- ?

No wonder. 5 years ago, £100k was around AUS $250k. Now it's less than AUS $160k

I see you're trying to find a correlation!

I'm not entirely sure why tickle wants to move closer to Wigan.

At the vast majority of home games his wife/girlfriend has been there along with their 4 kids. I'm thinking they must have moved over here??

If I had a wife and 4 kids in Hull Id probably want to move to wigan

I've thought that, I'm all for openness with the fans, but there are some things we don't need to hear, like that we've opened contract talks with players.

Damned if they do and damned if they don't. Some people clammer for any information and try to read things into it which are not there.

Personally I'd just wait until the club announces something concrete. ATEOTD worrying about something you cannot change is fairly futile.

Put Manu down as a yes . He changed his mind this week.
Club withdrew offer and moved on . Money to be spent elsewhere.

I cannot see this being true. If Manu wanted to stay the club would have snapped his hand off.

I think the club are doing this to make sure that the fans don't get angry if they don't sign a new contract, by thinking that we did nothing to sign then. I hope Tickle signs, and by the club making it public it adds more pressure on the player to sign as there could be a backlash from some of the fans

Things change, he appears happy with his new partner who is from Hull.

Like I said I hope he does stay . Just dont think he will

Aye,you dont get many Saints fans wanting to live there

Depends. With the club being in talks with other players, doing so would send them the message that they can mess about as long as they like and change their mind if they want.

Maybe they'd already committed the money elsewhere

Where has this Manu changed his mind story come from? Can anyone put any meat on the bones?

If it's true that Hull knocked him back, then that's a good benchmark to set, tbh. Shame it had to be Manu who dithered. Reminds me of Briscoe's sad departure.

Agree with that, if of course the rumour has any truth to it. If true it lets players know we will not be held to ransom by players regardless of how good they have been.

Quite possibly, but even they hadn't it sends out a message of no messing about with contract negotiations, which I'd personally be in favour of. 'Absolute clarity, we'll do exactly as we say, don't think you'll be any different.'

Would be another great boost if he signs. I want Whiting, Sharp and Kent soon as well. 2-3 years each.

I'd also keep O Meley you can see today how much we have missed him, I'd be shocked if we sign a better prop than him in SL or the NRL.

Did well but dont see him staying, looked bit overweight.