Not sure I need to prove anything to anybody on here TBH & his previous contact proves nothing - he has been available for a while and no-one took him so likely his demands have reduced



Neither me nor thee know his salary, but it’s not surprising I have a different opinion to you - most others seem to be the same on any subject you try to be argumentative over

Fine by me. If you can’t back your opinion up, then no point making it.

Going back to the OP, I too can't help but feel underwhelmed by our half back options. I sincerely hope that we haven't settled with what we have as I fear that that could be our downfall when it comes to survival.



On the subject of full back, Brendan Elliot takes that role when fit and would be a significant improvement to our team IMO.

There should be enough cap space to sign some quality UK based non quota players

how about Leigh lad Dom Manfredi?

Do Transfer fees count towards the cap?

Any updates on return dates for Ellis, Mellor, Elliot, Sau and Russell

Mellor and Russell are in Sundays squad , so should be fit .

Looks like anyone carrying an injury is not being risked. Backs look very stretched in first half. Hopefully Mellor and Russel back for next SL game.

Can't see them being risked at Cas either. We still need to sort our halfbacks out too. Even Riddy wouldn't have been this bad today, even at his age.

Nowhere near good enough today, lacklustre, slow , pedestrian, all very apt words. We have the worst edge defence I have ever seen and if any clubs watch the video of the last 2 games we are easy pickings, consistently can’t defend simple shapes and opposition attack constantly has an overlap.



There isn’t another team in the league that would persist with Keenan Brand or Lewis Tierney, I’m not one for calling for a coach but the majority of what I see everyone can see and if he doesn’t fix it the blame lays squarely on him.



Our recruitment in the backs has been so pathetic it’s scary.

You are right on the money Binosh.

It is already time for us all to take off our rose tinted glasses. As much as it pains me to say it, this squad doesn’t have a hope in hell of staying in SL. If I am wrong then no-one will be more pleased than me to hold my hand up.

We have a very long hard season ahead. It is difficult to imagine who we are capable of beating.

We have in all honesty made some very poor signings - I don’t even think we would have broken any pots in the Championship based on what we have seen so far. To make matters worse, squads so short on quality tend to be much more injury prone, which simply exacerbates the problem.

I would however have some sympathy for John Duffy - he can only play the hand he has been dealt. Having said that I do assume he has had some say in the recruitment.

Have to agree. Apart from Hood, and Peats (I thought he did well today) , our spine is,well, spineless. Brand, Tierney, Wallace, Brierley, and Reynolds should be playing in the Championship. We get rid of McNally,(Riddy (I know he's getting older now), Higson, and get worse. Beaumont needs to wake up quickly and smell the coffee. This team is nowhere near the quality of the 2017 team.

Unfortunately our small squad is suffering from a lot of iinjuries, another today with Wallace. With all our first choice players in we would be competitive. Ellis and Mellor looked a good potential partnership in the St Helens game but we have not managed to get them on the park together since. Easy to criticise recruitment but you can only sign people that are available and we had to switch from building a championship team to trying to morph that into a SL team. With Mellor, Ellis, Bell, Russell, Sau and Elliot in the squad how much better would we perform? Was always going be tough ask this season, keep the faith Leythers.