I'm glad we've managed to keep Wallace! It's just a shame he will move on at the end of next season.

And where, exactly does that information come from? And I mean, exactly?

Losing Flanagan Jnr is a bit disappointing but he's hardly proved himself at all and for £85k it's a massive gamble by Hudders. I thought Oliver Wilson looked far more ready when he went.

I can understand the point about why are we developing players if we never see any benefit on the pitch before they're sold. We don't pay our money to watch a balance sheet. As I see it the academy is there to help produce players. For everyone that goes we hopefully keep some others. Having an academy is integral to getting a higher licensing grade and with the ground and crowds as they are we need all the ticks we can get.

Let's face it we're not going to get promoted on the field until we're a fulltime outfit and that isn't happening anytime soon. In the meantime we need to become more like Batley on the field and become really hard to beat and punch above our weight. That can be done with smarter recruitment and a better culture.

We still need some backs to be able to push into the top 6 with any confidence.

Rumours that Joe Arundel will be joining us after his release from Halifax.

Irrelevant now as the move didn’t happen

Trivia question, can anyone name 5 players who played for us, left, and then came back again.

I'll start us off with...

Paul Harkin
Graham Mackay

Steve Crossley, Dan Fleming...

George Flanagan
Nathan Mcavoy
Ben Jefferies
Paul Sykes
Elliot Kear

Jeff Grayshon

Some even come back for a 3rd spell like Mr Crossley and Mr Reardon and Mr Baldwinson

The pedantic side of me has to mention that Flannagan never played a game during his 1st spell.


Off the top of my head Crossley, Ben Evans, Baldwindson, Mellor, Pickersgill, Pryce, Reardon or Chisholm would have been much better examples.

Joe Keyes