Er, wasn't it your chairman who said you needed to cut back?

No.

The chairman said he wanted value for money.

Sounds promising. Difficult to make a judgement without seeing him play much but Sandercock must be pretty keen for us to pay a fee. Another forward & an outside back to come in I reckon.

Unless they're on no more than the lowest paid players in our top 25 earners, I'm not sure we have room.



You need 8 club-trained players in the 25, so can have a maximum of 17 who are not club-trained. This is why Taylor, Murrell and Watts all going creates such a challenge



Hall, Gleeson, D.Hodgson, Burns, Dobson, Tuimavave, O'Hara, J. Hodgson, Withers, Paea, Mika, Horne is 12 straight off the bat.

Some of Caro, Carlile, Brown, Walker and Griffin may be only be on the club's 'starter wage' and Griffin might still be young enough to qualify as club-trained, but if not there are the other 5.



Have any of last years under 18s or 20s been promoted to the senior squad, does anybody know? I know we signed up a few of the 16s to professional deals, but they'll presumably be part of the new 19s set-up to start with.

God signing for you guys i think, looked a decent prospect for us but got injured and couldn't get back in the side.

Was offered a 2 year deal but got a bit excited and was asking for silly money from what we understand, so the club basically said take it or leave and he left it !!.



Good luck to him !

Now that's what I call a signing, what position does he play?

Surely he will play them all, simultaneously.

Surely he won`t get Dobbo`s place?

Ah, utility player then.

Does that mean Dobbos not signing for you lot afterall then?

Did we all really think it was going to happen mate? I admit I wouldn`t have minded him crossing the great divide,but a lot seems to have been just rumours.

Not that we have had many.

I must admit i like the way our recruitment has been handled this year. Not too many rumours, and in most cases the first we know about signings has been when they've actually been completed. Saves the letdowns when you've had your hopes raised.