Mcshane and kirke are two rumours for wakefield. Wouldn't be disappointed with either.



Kirke is solid and would do a goosmd job and Mcshane seems to have some influence around the ruck for widnes.



Leeds will have an ace up their sleeve somewhere with a signing.

He failed his exams so has to stay in the UK to complete them.

Quote Peter Kingsley="Peter Kingsley"why is rob burrow listed under forwards?'" Because his primary position for the season has been Hooker, and will be carrying on that role next season by the sounds of the article out today. www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/s ... -1-5017524

Quote Peter Kingsley="Peter Kingsley"why is rob burrow listed under forwards?'" Because his primary position for the season has been Hooker, and will be carrying on that role next season by the sounds of the article out today. www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/s ... -1-5017524

That article might as well read : McShane will released by the Rhinos unless we can't agree a deal with Lunt

I agree.cant see GH wanting to pay a fee for Lunt though, and it kind of sounds like he is hoping Lunt will tell Giants he wants away, by saying 'its in the players hands'.

Quote Frosties.="Frosties." Quote Frosties.="Peter Kingsley"why is rob burrow listed under forwards?'" Because his primary position for the season has been Hooker, and will be carrying on that role next season by the sounds of the article out today. www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/s ... -1-5017524'" Looks like the rumour of McShane to Wakefield might be a possibility but can't see GH paying a big fee to Huddersfield for Lunt. I assume that rumour of a couple of weeks ago about Joel Moon is now not happening?

Quote Frosties.="Frosties." Quote Frosties.="Peter Kingsley"why is rob burrow listed under forwards?'" Because his primary position for the season has been Hooker, and will be carrying on that role next season by the sounds of the article out today. www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/s ... -1-5017524'" Looks like the rumour of McShane to Wakefield might be a possibility but can't see GH paying a big fee to Huddersfield for Lunt. I assume that rumour of a couple of weeks ago about Joel Moon is now not happening?

I suspect Lunt & Achurch will be the only 'new recruitment' for 2013.



Let's face it having just won the GF again, like last year GH is still goiing to be able to retain a similar amount of season ticket sales on the back of that and use our repeated success to justify that his 'recruitment policy' is still working.



However, had we bombed out early from the play-offs these last 2 seasons having only finished 5th and not made all these Wembley trips, then bearing in mind his 'outburst' in June questioning whether it was time for a changing of the guard, then I think he will have been forced to try and bring in some 'big name' signings to replace the likes of Donald, Senior, Webb, Buderus,Diskin, Ali, Eastwood, Burgess etc etc to prevent a possible/probable 'loss of interest' in fans renewing/purchasing season tickets had these last 2 seasons not finished like they did?

I think you're probably right and I agree with your scenario if our season had not been so successful. GH will possibly say that he tried to sign Widdop but failed and there are no quality players available at the right price! Recruitmemt update in YEP soon.

GH's mid season 'outburst' was far from an outburst. It was a very carefully and considered press release.



By posing the question "Has this team run it's course?" achieved several different goals:



1) Puts the wind up some of the old guard who may have been considered to be coasting mid season.



2) Reassures the Season Ticket buying public that he is aware that performances aren't what they should be and is prepared to do something about it.



3) As it was an open question it gave GH a nice 'get out clause' should we succeed in any finals - which we did. GH can now say "I asked if we needed to change the team but obviously we don't so I need not spend much in the off season as we'll be starting next year as a Championship winning side."



Very shrewd bloke is our Gary.

We might have used up a little of our cap space making sure some of our young talent isn't poached by other clubs and keeping some space for big names to replace some of our key players when they start to go in a few years, eg peacock, sinfield, etc. some of these will be replaced in house. But no point having some average luxury Aussie signing on a decent wedge (eg Williams) money could be better spent in a year or so when peacock goes for example



The long term planning has been going ok bus far who are we to argue, one thing you can say is GH is a shrewd operator.

Both Sinfield and GH have said thet want more player rotation next year and also a target of finishing higher in the league. Both have said this means an improvement in the quality of the players in the 25 man squad and the inference is that will be met from both internal promotion for some of our talanted youngsters and also some recruitment. I think the addition of 1/2 quality signings will make all the difference (provided they are available and affordable!).

Totally agree, an outburst would have come post match interview or similar. This interview was carefully put together, whilst not pointing direct blame on any poor performances, rather asking if the team was up to going that extra mile....and as it turned out it was.....I am sure GH, like the fans wants to see this on a weekly basis as well