Seth wrote:
It's not, though we have had a long time to be able to know what we've got to play with in terms of players coming off contract and a large chunk of cap free to identify the best players that are on the market/possibilities. Should we though also reasonably expect that the likes of saints, Wigan and Catalan will get the best of those available for some time to come and that we are not a 'top' players first choice? Is that also part of the problem?
Yeah the teams at the top will always get the player if the same money if been offered, which means we would probably have to offer more money, which is what got us in this squad management mess in the first place.
It does seem like we have left it late, but with Smith saying they speak about recruitment and retention every day, I imagine what ever plan they had for next year hasn’t gone well.
Either the targets don’t want to come to us, or the players we hoped to retain are now leaving and we’ve got spaces to fill.
We don’t know the facts about the recruitment and retention
