Re: Planning for next season : Wed Oct 16, 2024 8:56 pm  

Cokey wrote:

Was Mitch poor value B&B?

Maybe Bongser is tarring him with a collective brush - there were too many rebellious mercenaries in the 2017 team. No probs with recent imports - Leigh has a whole different ethos now.

Then again, if he was value for money, why did it take everyone so long to cotton on to the Brown referred to?

Re: Planning for next season : Wed Oct 16, 2024 10:12 pm  

Bent&Bongser wrote:

Maybe Bongser is tarring him with a collective brush - there were too many rebellious mercenaries in the 2017 team. No probs with recent imports - Leigh has a whole different ethos now.

Then again, if he was value for money, why did it take everyone so long to cotton on to the Brown referred to?

I did mention Kev Brown who i think cost us around 10k for about 3 games. Personally i thought Mitch did ok for us tbh.

Re: Planning for next season : Thu Oct 17, 2024 11:39 am  

Mitch Brown was a good player for us, played like it meant something to him whilst playing out of position.

Re: Planning for next season : Thu Oct 17, 2024 5:53 pm  

In Contract
1.Davey Armstrong – 24 - 2027
2. Darnell McIntosh – 26 - 2025
3. Umyla Hanley – 22 - 2026
4. Tesi Niu – 23 - 2027
5. Josh Charnley – 32 - 2025
6. Matt Moylan, - 32 - 2025
7. Lachlan Lam – 26 - 2025
8. Aaron Pene – 28 - 2026
9. Edwin Ipape – 25 - 2025
10. Robbie Mulhern – 29 - 2026
11. Frankie Halton – 27 - 2025
12. Ben Condon – 24 - 2026
13. Issac Liu – 33 -2026
14. Brad Dwyer – 32- 2025
15. Ben McNamara – 22 - 2025
16. Dan Norman – 26 -2025
17. Gareth O'Brien – 32 - 2025
18. Bailey Hodgson – 22 - 2026
19. Louis Brogan – 23 - 2027
20. Owen Trout – 24 - 2026
21. Matt Davis - 28 - 2026
22. Ryan Brown - 19 - 2026
23. Andrew Badrock - 24 - 2026
24. AJ Towse - 21 - 2027

New Kit manufacturer - Reebok

Only one surprise so far - Ryan Brown. Totally underwhelmed by the reserve team signings. Is anybody joining who might actually get a game?

Re: Planning for next season : Fri Oct 18, 2024 9:00 am  

Whilst I understand that he club needs to sign some younger players are any of these guys doing to get into the first team? We are desperate for a replacement for Amone as Pene was the replacement for Nakabuwai and needs a good pre season, we had Norman, Baxter, Wilde (injured) Gannon, Brand, Derbyshire, Davis, Brogan and Rothwell who weren’t really playing last year so have we really upgraded the squad?I think we need a bit more quality and competition for starting 13 as our weekly 17 for me pretty much picks itself.

Re: Planning for next season : Fri Oct 18, 2024 10:03 am  

Binosh wrote:

Whilst I understand that he club needs to sign some younger players are any of these guys doing to get into the first team? We are desperate for a replacement for Amone as Pene was the replacement for Nakabuwai and needs a good pre season, we had Norman, Baxter, Wilde (injured) Gannon, Brand, Derbyshire, Davis, Brogan and Rothwell who weren’t really playing last year so have we really upgraded the squad?I think we need a bit more quality and competition for starting 13 as our weekly 17 for me pretty much picks itself.

how much do we have to spend - cash
best 10 out of listed probably £1.5 million what does that leave us