matt newsholme

The previous owners had this information. What makes you think it was passed along to the new owners by the administrator, especially seen as the clubs databases were run by one of the main creditors of the old club who didnt get paid.

If widnes started season in SL1 then fixture would have taken place. Current format under discussion is for SL1 teams to play each other home and away before the split.

Afaik there is prize money based on position in SL but only for the playoff places.

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if roosters defense today was an indication of how you'll play next year then your destined to be cellar dwellers again

wrong. another 2 years!

given how mick is always so quick at updating scores from games via his mobile it does seem a remarkable coincidence that he didnt put a post up re: langley resigning until 10:43, approximately 1 minute AFTER I sent him a text message with news, which I found out from a post on t'other forum and then any further posts he put up with details of fans forum only appeared here after said details had already been mentioned on t'other forum by posters who had attended forum. Although why anyone would feel the need to pretend attendance at such an event is beyond me and obviously not something mick would do.

nero doesnt count on quota next year.

koppy is probably never going to be a top class prop. he is however a decent solid one with some improvement left in him which hopefully a new coach can bring out. And he has benefits of being homegrown and relatively cheap which tips balance in his favor imo. Ideally we'd have 4 lynch/scrutons in team but financially we cant afford that. interesting about gardner. surely meli would be a more likely target for us as he's OOC and seems a more typical bulls style winger. cant see us paying a transfer fee for gardner.

are the ones I'd keep. Think sheriffe could improve under a different coach and with a better center. big question mark for me is menzies. undoubtedly one of our best players but taking a valuable quota spot, similar situation to morrison last year, If a top nrl center or half was available then I could see menzies going to accomodate them. otherwise retain him for a year. Nero is still a decent center and better than our other options at moment and doesnt count on quota next year so retain unless we have someone better coming in. Koppy has shown enough this year to warrant at least another year under a new coach. I'd give all the youngsters at least another year. wardle, addy and finigan have all impressed in 1st team and whilst o'brien and tate havent debuted yet I've heard good reports for both from u'20s games. plus youngsters will be relatively cheap. What I'd like to see us do is copy rhinos policy and give the particularly promising ones long 5 yr deals on slightly higher deals than we would normally offer. This was policy rhinos used to tie down the core of their current team on long and relatively cheap over the length of the deal contracts.

Kearney still missing. no southernwood but sykes and sheriffe in 19 man squad. reardon and worrincy retain there spots after howlers last week. Cant see past another loss I'm afraid

he does have previous for that stunt reason I asked is that 'stiff' I mentioned in 1st post is a fax fan from our pub who IS at the game and he wants to meet up with mick. Yet mick is strangely ignoring the posts on here and also txts to his phone ( which he must have with him to be posting on here). Certainly seems like mick isnt at game to me.

still havent mentioned where your watching from mick or are you just ignoring the question?

stiff wants to know where you're claiming to be standing as they are having trouble spotting you. Thats if your really attending this time and not just pretending for your internet audience.

err thats exactly what they done!. the complication is the players already here when the rule change was brought in. The rfl cant just say they are ineligble as that would be restraint of trade and rfl would be in legal hot water so instead they grant them a quota exemption. Going forward once the players who were already here in feb 2008 (date new quota came in ) have left the game due to going back to nrl/retirement , then we'll have the 5 overseas players rule you want as no players who come to SL after feb 2008 can apply for exemption.