: Tue May 19, 2009 11:51 am  

Riggins wrote:

I hope and think TM will stay on. He's seen the rough times down here and now the good times are in sight I think he'll want to finish the job he's started.

He better bloody stay.

: Tue May 19, 2009 12:17 pm  

Fully wrote:

Dixon, Evans, Wainwright, Clayton, Jones, Higgins, Feather, Boyle, Massey, Netherton, Ford, Faumuina, Cording according to Castigers.net

IMO We need to keep Dixon, Wainwright Jones, Higgins, Feather, Boyle, Netherton and Ford possibly.

The rest I'm unsure about or certain that I want to be released. Evans counts on thte quota so it's whether we could find someone better than him at centre.

Can't see us getting rid of evans he has been very good for us.

We need to keep Dixon,Jones,Feather,Boyle,Netherton and Ford but i think we could better than Higgins and Wainwright: dont get me wrong they are decent players but that's all they are decent and if we wanna get up there with the best of them we need to strenghten our squad when possible so keeping these two in my eyes would be making do.

: Tue May 19, 2009 12:26 pm  

Fully wrote:

Dixon, Evans, Wainwright, Clayton, Jones, Higgins, Feather, Boyle, Massey, Netherton, Ford, Faumuina, Cording according to Castigers.net

IMO We need to keep Dixon, Wainwright, Jones, Higgins, Feather, Boyle, Netherton and Ford possibly.

The rest I'm unsure about or certain that I want to be released. Evans counts on thte quota so it's whether we could find someone better than him at centre.

For me id like to see Dixon, Evens, Jones, Higgins, Feather, Boyle, Massey, Neatherton and Ford all stay. I would have added Sione to that but with the overseas quota coming down id pick Evens over him so far.

: Tue May 19, 2009 12:50 pm  

Everyone seems to be signing players for next year already, i would of thought (hope) we would be looking at players for next season at the moment

Sika Manu would be nice

: Tue May 19, 2009 4:06 pm  

StuMain wrote:

Remember our overseas numbers will need to be reduced as well.

The current limit of 8 is reduced to 6. We have 7 so going on OOC players, we could only retain one of Evans and Faumuina.

So if Evans and Faumuina stay, someone else will have to make way. If one of them stays we can't bring another in.

However, given most SL teams will be having to lose 2, we're arguably in a better position than others in this respect.

There could be another relaxation of the rules for players who've been here for a number of years as has happened in the past? I reckon Evans may be a case in point and that along with his Welsh nationality.

I reckon there may already be moves afoot to bend the rules once again, also got to hope negotiations are ongoing to re-sign the majority of players out of contract at the end of the season, plus another 3 or 4 to get our squad depth up to where it should be.

: Tue May 19, 2009 4:33 pm  

Out of :

Dixon, Evans, Wainwright, Clayton, Jones, Higgins, Feather, Boyle, Massey, Netherton, Ford, Faumuina, Cording

Think we deffo need to keep:

dixon, evans, jones, feather, boyle and cording

i'ed get rid of:
Clayton, ford

and only get rid of these if someone better available:
Wainwirght, faumunia, massey, netherton

: Tue May 19, 2009 8:16 pm  

StuMain wrote:

Also on the OOC players, I would hope for an announcement soon on TM's future. He is also OOC at the end of this season so I expect we'll soon announce his retention and then start work on retaining the players he wants.

TM stated at recent Supporters club meeting that he is in talks with the club and it sounded like a deal was not too far off - he said that he was excited about how the club are re-building from the bottom up an he gave the impression he really wanted to stay. Here's hoping hate to think we would have to start off a brand new team all over again!!

: Wed May 20, 2009 7:52 am  

I've said previously I would expect TM to sign for another 2 years and I still believe that to be the case.

: Wed May 20, 2009 8:18 am  

I am loving the fact that people are agreeing that we need to sign Dixon up, I bet if the question was posed before this season there would be very few people suggesting we keep him.

: Wed May 20, 2009 9:53 am  

Apart from the overseas quota reduction, i would keep them all and see them develop further.