LeytherRob

John Davidson reporting that Matt Davis is signing on to a new 2 year deal, doubt he'll be on particularly high wages and don't mind him sticking around as he's versatile and a work horse who always gives maximum effort.

I dunno what people seem to have against Holmes, always plays well for us, has great pace still for a forward and our win % with him in the squad is much higher than without. He'd always be in my 17, whether it's 2nd row or prop.

McIntosh confirmed 2.5 year deal, Briscoe 18 month deal

If he has any professional ambition he'd go, Salford are always going to be a selling club unless someone cashed up comes in. If he does go it's going to be tough times for Salford, particularly as Rowley never leaves a club empty handed, I'd expect at least 4 or 5 to follow him out the door at the end of the year.

The 150k being quoted is a fee to Salford to release him from his contract. Think the person quoting this is getting mixed up.

Chamberlain confirmed to Hull on 1 month loan now

I think even if it was an equivalent swap in terms of salary its a good deal for us considering McIntosh is younger and more versatile(covering wing, FB and centre). The latest development is Ed Chamberlain also off to Hull, which definitely suggests we're making some additional space so hopefully someone else coming in at some point soon.

Would be incredibly surprised if Hanley didn't stay considering he seems pretty loyal to Lam. McIntosh has played a fair bit of fullback over the years for Hudds and Hull and he's 7 years younger than Briscoe. I don't see this as a guaranteed 13 player on big wages, more increasing strength in depth at 2 positions. As I said, not a massive improvement but a step in the right direction.

Busy morning today: •Rowley move to Hull getting closer •Broadbent to Hull KR/Corey Hall and Louis Senior to Cas all in season loans •Tom Briscoe to Hull and Darnell McIntosh to Leigh swap on loan to become permanent. Happy with the 3rd as a Leigh fan, McIntosh provides more cover at Fullback which were short on and Briscoe isn't going to be playing now Hanley has emerged. Not a massive improvement by any stretch, but a step forward.

Lam said he could possibly have come back on but did get some slight tightness in his calf so didn't want to risk him. Should be available next week I imagine.

Another in a long list of premature injury retirements we had in our 2017/2021 SL seasons. As bad as this year's been, it's not a patch on the shocking luck we had those years.

I think Ben McNamara is a better kicker than Moylan in terms of goals, but I think they are persisting with Moylan as he's the one that's going to be playing week in week out so needs the rhythm of regular goal kicking. He hasn't been that bad to be fair, just a bit inconsistent.

Lam specifically mentioned him this week as being back training on field and back within the next 2 to 3 weeks along with Asiata and Briscoe.

The goal for recruitment for this and the next couple of years is to bring the age of the squad down and find players than can be the nucleus of the squad for the next 5 years or so, some signings will work and others won't but we've definitely found a few this year in Trout, Norman and Hanley which is a big plus. On McNamara, it's still very early days, he's young and new to the club. I think he's been relatively solid if unspectacular but when we have Lam and Moylan running the show that's pretty much going to be his role. I'd rather us show a bit of patience with the younger players rather than casting them off too quickly as we have done in the past with the likes of Bullock, Hankinson etc.

It was telling today that with Nakubuwai absent it was by far the smallest drop off in performance of the year when the interchanges happened. Trout, Norman, Holmes, Hughes and Davis all ahead of him in the pecking order for me. Get him out to a championship club(which is his level) ASAP and use that quota spot on someone that can actually impact a game.