Re: Starting 17 : Thu Nov 10, 2016 1:10 pm  

Horrible news if true but can't blame Manning if so.

We've really set the club a long way back by failing to make the top 4 last season.

Re: Starting 17 : Thu Nov 10, 2016 10:19 pm  

thefaxfanman wrote: Where've people heard this Manning news from? Would be gutted if it's true Time to be gutted I missed afraid. http://www.totalrl.com/batley-make-doub ... r-manning/

thefaxfanman wrote: Where've people heard this Manning news from? Would be gutted if it's true Time to be gutted I missed afraid. http://www.totalrl.com/batley-make-doub ... r-manning/

Re: Starting 17 : Fri Nov 11, 2016 12:59 pm  

Norman Bates wrote: Time to be gutted I missed afraid. http://www.totalrl.com/batley-make-doub ... r-manning/ Transfer fee or swap for brambani will do

Norman Bates wrote: Time to be gutted I missed afraid. http://www.totalrl.com/batley-make-doub ... r-manning/ Transfer fee or swap for brambani will do

Re: Starting 17 : Fri Nov 11, 2016 2:00 pm  

1 Salty
2 Worrincy
3 Heaton
4 Tyrer
5 Sharp
6 Murrell
7 Moore
8 Calahane
9 Kaye
10 Tangata
11 Grady
12 Grix
13 Fairbank

14 Jonno
15 Ambler
16 Boyle
17 Haggerty

Re: Starting 17 : Fri Nov 11, 2016 2:13 pm  

Put Barber on bench instead of Haggerty as he's not coming now and we are only Connor plus kids left..

Re: Starting 17 : Fri Nov 11, 2016 4:15 pm  

mr t hall wrote:

Put Barber on bench instead of Haggerty as he's not coming now and we are only Connor plus kids left..

Hate to say it but I would do a fev and take the dual reg with a top sl team go for top 4 and ssort the cash flow issues

Re: Starting 17 : Fri Nov 11, 2016 4:58 pm  

hooligan27 wrote:

Hate to say it but I would do a fev and take the dual reg with a top sl team go for top 4 and ssort the cash flow issues

I agree, I think we need dual reg now. Saying that though anyone who looks at our first choice squads and thinks we will be in a relegation struggle is having a laugh. We will compete for the top 4 once again. Good use of a dual reg agreement could put us back in that top 4 in a similar way that Fev made it last year.

Re: Starting 17 : Sat Nov 12, 2016 8:29 am  

Greg Florimos Boots wrote:

I agree, I think we need dual reg now. Saying that though anyone who looks at our first choice squads and thinks we will be in a relegation struggle is having a laugh. We will compete for the top 4 once again. Good use of a dual reg agreement could put us back in that top 4 in a similar way that Fev made it last year.

Who are we going to DR with??

Re: Starting 17 : Sat Nov 12, 2016 9:53 am  

Pellon Boy wrote:

Who are we going to DR with??

Not a fan of DR but I see both Fev and Batley, who finished with more money than us last year, have linked up again with Leeds and Cas respectively, so whether we like it or not we may have to at least consider it with a much smaller squad, more full time teams, and a real risk of injury and having to throw our kids in if that happens.
Maybe the answer to your question PB is Hull FC? Rawsthorne just gone there and we now have a tenuous link?

Re: Starting 17 : Sat Nov 12, 2016 10:40 am  

Living The Dream wrote:

Maybe the answer to your question PB is Hull FC? Rawsthorne just gone there and we now have a tenuous link?

Those are my thoughts, I'm afraid that we have accept the inevitable, much as I do not either like or agree with it, that we have to use DR, we don't have the money or squad size and we are no longer even a big club in this division. It is getting to the stage where another poor season could signal the end of the club so we need to take drastic actions.