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Not half, he made some superb try-saving tackles. Personally, I thought he played his heart out. No lack of effort, that's for sure. £80k (if rumours are to be believed) and we get him back? Good business if you can do it!

In all fairness, he hasn't looked particularly good in Black and White, barely a glimpse of what we saw when he was here.

Performance related pay?

At the risk of hijacking the thread, I'd say the same for Greg Minikin. I didn't really expect much of him when he signed, but I think he's been immense. He's as strong as an ox and genuinely seems to give his all.

We might get Ben Reynolds, as he's cup tied to us...but I doubt it!

My guess is that this isn't that uncommon in second tier RL in this country and we're not the only club who doesn't pay up the last wage as quickly as we should, so players are sort of used to it? It's still wrong and needs to be sorted, but I'd be surprised if we're the only club guilty of this, we have perhaps waited too long? Or perhaps it's just us and players don't like to publicly shame a club for fear of affecting their future elsewhere.

Don't let details get in the way of an excellent piece of click-bait.

Ours is apparently on the Sportsman again.

Agreed, I've assumed that the WMDC money hasn't been spent, but as you say, not much coming from the club. Even a 'we're working on the IMG criteria' or something would be nice to hear.

But surely the savings made on players wages are an indication that we may be looking to improve other IMG points scoring criteria. I'd have been more worried if we carried on spending big on the pitch at the cost of improvements elsewhere. In the new IMG world, there are more important things than winning... Although, there are of course points to be had for winning the 1895 cup. This is modern Rugby League.

Super League clauses are quite common. We'll probably get next to nowt.

Very true, I'm not convinced about ET, personally either. But I'd keep Briscoe too, and Kheirallah and Longstaff (if they'd been available).

'Kin 'Ell. That puts things into context. We might be going through a 'mini-Wakefield' reboot, and that looks like a hell of a lot to overcome.

It makes the announcement, a week ago, of a supporter sponsor for Longstaff a bit strange.