Re: Handforth : Fri Sep 16, 2011 4:21 pm  

Hear from a good source inside the club that Dane Manning has also agreed to sign from batley.

Re: Handforth : Fri Sep 16, 2011 4:48 pm  

Branighans boot wrote:

Hear from a good source inside the club that Dane Manning has also agreed to sign from batley.

Sorry if this is a daft question, but is it the same Dane Manning that was at Leeds and on loan at Fev?

Re: Handforth : Fri Sep 16, 2011 4:58 pm  

Fax4life2 wrote:

Sorry if this is a daft question, but is it the same Dane Manning that was at Leeds and on loan at Fev?

Yes Jon, it is.

Re: Handforth : Fri Sep 16, 2011 5:29 pm  

batley only had the right to say he had left,very poor on their part.good signing who will direct us around the field well but do hope we keep danny jones as he has got better as the season has gone on and always gives his all whether its going well or not.

Re: Handforth : Fri Sep 16, 2011 6:06 pm  

Handforth should be a great signing for Fax, we have been short of a leader at scrum half for a while now.
Can't see KH only playing him from the bench for half a game as Calland did with Penky,Beswick and Black previously.
Will Danny Jones be able to build a partnership with Handforth if he signs? He's strggled with Blacky this past season.
Looks like it will be a very interesting off season with who signs and who we let go.

Re: Handforth : Fri Sep 16, 2011 6:11 pm  

Great Signing the 1st of many new great signings I hope along with the re signings of the cream of the current crop.

Re: Handforth : Fri Sep 16, 2011 6:20 pm  

Faxhali wrote:

It would have been much better for Batley to delay this until at least after sunday, How is Black, Bowman or Jones going to feel when they dont know if they have a spot to fight for or if they are being let go.

Very Bad timing Batley.

Ben is going to Swinton.
But, he like any of the others who may or may not be offered a contract will play to their highest ability.
They will want to win, that's what sportsmen do!

Re: Handforth : Fri Sep 16, 2011 6:23 pm  

Faxhali wrote:

It would have been much better for Batley to delay this until at least after sunday, How is Black, Bowman or Jones going to feel when they dont know if they have a spot to fight for or if they are being let go.

Very Bad timing Batley.

Well I imagine that all your players are aware of the way Karl is pressurising players from other clubs to sign for Fax, so if they do all sign quite a number of your present squad know they won't be playing much next year.

Perhaps that is why some of them are talking to other teams?

Re: Handforth : Fri Sep 16, 2011 6:26 pm  

fredm wrote:

Well I imagine that all your players are aware of the way Karl is pressurising players from other clubs to sign for Fax, so if they do all sign quite a number of your present squad know they won't be playing much next year.

Perhaps that is why some of them are talking to other teams?

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Re: Handforth : Fri Sep 16, 2011 6:39 pm  

The players will know in a lot of instances who will be offered new contracts and then its up to them whether they sign or decide to speak to other clubs - but even if there are not retained they are in affect playing for contracts elsewhere so like Halifax John states all players should be playing to the best of their ability.

Its just a bad time of year to be sorting contracts for any club especially when your season is not dead but thats just the way it is.

Karl will know who he wants and I am sure he will be using whatever means to sell the positive package that is Halifax RLFC to any new recruits. If that is pressure then so be it - at the end of the day players can say no thanks !!!!