Re: Recruitment rumours and links : Wed Jan 10, 2024 10:00 am  

karetaker wrote:

No mention of injury in the article though.

Maybe he hopes to play through it with another club, where we wanted him to get it sorted/used it as a way to get shut and off the cap.

Re: Recruitment rumours and links : Wed Jan 10, 2024 10:14 am  

Gaz3376 wrote:

Maybe he hopes to play through it with another club, where we wanted him to get it sorted/used it as a way to get shut and off the cap.

There was no way that Kasiano was getting a new contract with us.

Leaving early with a pay-off allows him to negotiate a deal with another club that could include the 2025 season too.

Re: Recruitment rumours and links : Thu Jan 11, 2024 3:19 am  

The Railwayman wrote:

In some respects I am sorry to see him go, when he was 'on' he was a danger and good on the eye, a crowd pleaser. Unfortunately it would seem, his 'on' moments were too infrequent and insufficient to warrant a decent squad spot. I don't know what kind of money he was on, perhaps this was a deciding factor. The biggest surprise for me is the retaining of Dudson, I thought he would be the first to go after last seasons poor efforts. Yes he may have had off field traumas in his life and I sympathise with that but that doesn't prevent you from running straight and hard and we saw precious little of that. This season he has a lot to prove. I hope he proves us all wrong and turns in a great season. Roll on 2024

The rumour on Duds, is that he was offered a no tie early release, he was alleged to have said to the club, ok, it’s £60k, to which he was basically told to turn up for work on Monday!

Re: Recruitment rumours and links : Fri Jan 12, 2024 10:26 am  

Abe, what is your Twitter handle please if it's something you don't mind being common knowledge?

Re: Recruitment rumours and links : Fri Jan 12, 2024 3:30 pm  

Maco7 wrote:

Abe, what is your Twitter handle please if it's something you don't mind being common knowledge?

@SausageKing48 - Abe Froman, Sausage King Of Chicago

Re: Recruitment rumours and links : Sat Jan 13, 2024 12:29 pm  

Wasn’t Dudson offered to Salford in exchange for Partington coming to Wire..

Re: Recruitment rumours and links : Sat Jan 13, 2024 7:26 pm  

Bobby Digital wrote:

Wasn’t Dudson offered to Salford in exchange for Partington coming to Wire..

There may be an opportunity here:

Salford may lose the Burgess case, a knee-jerk reaction which seemed to be an attempt at reducing the wage bill. If this is the case, we may be able to reduce the payoff to Dudson if Salford take him on. We get Partington in return, and they lower their wage bill little to soften the blow of losing the Burgess case (if they indeed do lose it). This is certainly what I'd be on to if I was in charge of affairs. I'm surprised they can class Burgess' misdemeanour as gross misconduct, and I'm pretty sure he has no history unlike some players.

Here's hoping for a slightly-late Partington in a pear tree.

Re: Recruitment rumours and links : Sun Jan 14, 2024 12:35 am  

Salford Sold Croft and Ackers to massively reduce their Salary spends. Unless something goes drastically wrong i can't see this happening. Iwould prefer an out and out prop over Partington, he's a tough kid but not sure he's what we need.

Re: Recruitment rumours and links : Wed Jan 17, 2024 11:16 am  

Might be me but it feels like the club are keeping things fairly low key compared to previous pre-seasons. Not as many silly stunts, stories and features. Having said that, I think I miss the drama a little bit!

Re: Recruitment rumours and links : Wed Jan 17, 2024 6:02 pm  

Kevin Turvey wrote:

Might be me but it feels like the club are keeping things fairly low key compared to previous pre-seasons. Not as many silly stunts, stories and features. Having said that, I think I miss the drama a little bit!

Absolutely. Was going to mention this myself.

I think Burgess probably has a part in this. I imagine he's trying to dampen the hype and take the pressure off the players, as well as rooting out the perceived 'status' culture that some players seem to take on board when they join, as if they've hit the big time and make silly wage demands,

I'm all for it, but as you say it does leave the off-season a bit short of things to talk about.