Only Proctor got a mention really, Mr Carter mentioned the Catalans player Nappa who he'd spoken briefly with the French club about, but he's still a Cats player and the rumours from the press that they were willing to pay him off weren't exactly true, just like the Proctor rumours from the press that we'd got him on a lucrative 2 year contract were untrue, apparently we pinched him because he wanted to try a season in super league, but nothing said about Taylor tonight.

Yes there was, they were looking for interested parties single or multiple groups of fans who were willing to invest however large or small in some sort of shares or sponsorship.

MC mentioned that the club were trying to get Murphy to agree to an extension. Had his best poker face on so don't know how it's progressing.

Looks a little concerning in that we don't seem to be extending retention on our young players at the moment, I hope they don't get picked off by other clubs with us being slow to retaining etc !

Didn't you bother to read Wollo's post above yours......

And you know that how?

Good news about Proctor but I think I expected more!

Looks like we'll have to wait a bit longer!

I'm guessing the club are determined to see out the WC, at least until the QF's are done. The QF's will be the first really competitive games in the comp IMO, so it makes sense to at least see those out.

Yeah, I think you're right and why not?

Might as well see all that's on offer, it's not like there's a host of clubs looking, because most have spent up or have no quota spots left!

That is down to the bigger clubs having backers so they can run at a lost. Mr Carter said there was 10 clubs in S L with a net combined loss of 10 million pounds per season and we can not live with them as we have the smallest budget in S L .TJ wanted to play for Wakefield so he stayed ,With the new set up think you will see all the better young players to play for the so called grade A teams . Most young players will not play a lot at the beginning of there career at grade A teams but will still be on more Cash than what grade B teams can pay and grade C

Mash told us that he had spoken to JD on the phone in OZ last week about any recommendations he might have and was told that most started off at around £300K which is roughly what the top Aussies over here are on apparently, coupled with what MC said that we could not hope to cope with that type of signings financially we would have to see if we can unearth any gems from the Island nations from this weekend on, maybe the quota players we have in mind are already in this country playing he couldn't or wouldn't be more explicit, you can only fill the gaps in yourself from what was said really.

It might be me what's gullible here because I don't know how firmly MC tongue was pressed into his cheek, but he said that David Fifita was due back in the country later this month and he intended meeting up with him for a catch up, he was wondering out loud that now his brother has retired and spoilt his plan to play a season together whether he might be tempted to do one last season over here, maybe maybe not.

Interesting is that. Why would he be coming back over?

Didn't the conversation start though when someone asked what were the chances of Dave returning to play now that his brother was not continuing?



He said he would catch up with Dave over a coffee on his return to the UK in December but had no idea what Dave's plans were. Somewhere in there he queried if Dave would take a contract for £25k per year.

House is still up for sale.

Quote chissitt="chissitt"Mr Carter did not say they were specifically in talks with 4 overseas players but had an open mind regarding any incoming player and were receiving reports daily with players wanting to join the club, and that finances would to a large extent dictate who came in, the club had an open mind and were waiting to see what came about now the world cup had reached the business end, he did state though that they had had one recommendation for a Fijian player.'" Wonder if the recommendation is for the Fiji prop - Joseph Ratuvakacerivalu, 25 years old who is 6ft 3 and 18 1/2 stone who plays for Redcliffe Dolphins? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TgzKzsF9Kwc

Quote chissitt="chissitt"Mr Carter did not say they were specifically in talks with 4 overseas players but had an open mind regarding any incoming player and were receiving reports daily with players wanting to join the club, and that finances would to a large extent dictate who came in, the club had an open mind and were waiting to see what came about now the world cup had reached the business end, he did state though that they had had one recommendation for a Fijian player.'" Wonder if the recommendation is for the Fiji prop - Joseph Ratuvakacerivalu, 25 years old who is 6ft 3 and 18 1/2 stone who plays for Redcliffe Dolphins? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TgzKzsF9Kwc

Owts possible, clearly Dave's plans didn't pan out as he hoped.

Well there's now a new coaching setup in place.......

I can only go on what I'm told, but the player revolt against Poching is a total myth, but as I say, it's just what I'm told, I wasn't there

Notice Leeds have freed up a spot and salary with Prior.



Wouldn’t surprise me if they try nip in on another of our targets like Lisone.

What targets?



Was he ever a target, other than we may have looked at him like we probably have dozens of players?



I respect what you post but you're being a bit naive if you think that players are not being touted by their agents to the last moment. If Leeds want a player they won't want him because we do, they will just want him, they don't use Trinity as a barometer. They will make an offer and so will we and the best man wins.



Truth is it's all speculation and press talk.



Two mega rumours were scotched last night alone. There were plenty of Gale is a done deal cobblers on here for months, doh, ditto Lawrence doh doh. It was always pure guesswork and gossip, of course they will pretend that it was a done deal under Poching, but Applegarth said no, yeah right. Ditto the I told you about Proctor poster, good bit of speculation, nothing more.



People think we have been negotiating with Elijah Taylor for month if you believe whats on here or social media. We may have been, but just as likely it's been the case that he was OOC and people put 2 and 2 together and in truth we've never even spoken to him. Yet somehow it's perceived as either a done deal or the one that got away.



It's fun, I've no issue, but it's not real until it happens.

Despite what he has said about staying at Leigh I think Nene MacDonald is the person they are freeing up space for.

To be fair the Taylor one came from Poching in an interview where he talked about the press speculation and far from denied it. Usually when a coach mentions a specific player the club are down the track with negotiating with a player, otherwise the question just gets batted away. I'd guess he was very much a Poching target and Mash is less keen and is looking elsewhere. Obviously can't be sure but if he was interested i guess it would be done by now. Maybe Proctor was the alternative, only they will know.

I was going to say same about Poching. He was the one who talked about him.

I think it would still be a good signing and suit Mash's style but I guess there is an order to doing this stuff.

Yeah I forgot about that, but my point is that sometimes things on here become a perceived reality when they are not.



He is actually the one I'd have liked to be most true, but if it's not to be, it's not to be.