2025 Transfer Tracker

[Thunder Road]

We wish.

[Fly-By-TheWire]

27 minutes ago, sweaty craiq said:

Leigh have signed some half back from Penrith whose bird plays soccer for a Manchester club due to Moylan retiring

A half back that currently plays in Cumbria then, and who has a girlfriend that plays for Coronation Street ladies' team?

Edited October 1 by Fly-By-TheWire

[DG70]

Chris Hill to Salford for 2025.

[Damien]

Do Hull FC work hard to be a basket case or does it just come naturally:

 

[phiggins]

21 minutes ago, Damien said:

Do Hull FC work hard to be a basket case or does it just come naturally:

 

Weird how much they've bigged up the appointment, with Myler calling it a huge coup, when the reality is it's a virtual consultancy role. Probably still be a good move, but feels like the comms was a bit misleading

[Chrispmartha]

Melbourne Storms Tepai Moeroa To Super League next year, would think Leeds would be interested with the Brad Arthur link

[LeytherRob]

Ben Condon to Leigh to replace O'Donnell 

 

[binosh]

11 minutes ago, LeytherRob said:

Ben Condon to Leigh to replace O'Donnell 

 

This Guy is one very dangerous BIG left side line running back rower, hopefully he is used that way Lam & Chester do unearth some gems hopefully more of the same, Manly have been misusing him as a middle. I hope I’d Moylan retires we use the CAP wisely on a right sided organising Halfback.

[Ullman]

5 hours ago, phiggins said:

Weird how much they've bigged up the appointment, with Myler calling it a huge coup, when the reality is it's a virtual consultancy role. Probably still be a good move, but feels like the comms was a bit misleading

The subject line of the email I got from the club was "Hull Appoint Jon Clarke As High Performance Consultant".

I don't know how they could have put it any clearer.

[phiggins]

1 hour ago, Ullman said:

The subject line of the email I got from the club was "Hull Appoint Jon Clarke As High Performance Consultant".

I don't know how they could have put it any clearer.

Did you think he would be staying at Manly and doing the bulk of the work remotely when reading the press release Hull put out?

[LeytherRob]

3 hours ago, binosh said:

This Guy is one very dangerous BIG left side line running back rower, hopefully he is used that way Lam & Chester do unearth some gems hopefully more of the same, Manly have been misusing him as a middle. I hope I’d Moylan retires we use the CAP wisely on a right sided organising Halfback.

He'll be a straight swap for O'Donnell I think as we aren't flush with numbers for front line second rowers. Does mean our starting 13 next year is pretty much known now:

1. Armstrong

2. McIntosh

3. Hanley

4. Niu

5. Charnley

6. Moylan/quota replacement if he retires

7. Lam

8. Pene

9. Ipape

10. Mulhern

11. Condon

12. Halton

13. Liu

[binosh]

6 minutes ago, LeytherRob said:

He'll be a straight swap for O'Donnell I think as we aren't flush with numbers for front line second rowers. Does mean our starting 13 next year is pretty much known now:

1. Armstrong

2. McIntosh

3. Hanley

4. Niu

5. Charnley

6. Moylan/quota replacement if he retires

7. Lam

8. Pene

9. Ipape

10. Mulhern

11. Condon

12. Halton

13. Liu

I still think there may be one or two surprises currently playing in the UK.

[LeytherRob]

Just now, binosh said:

I still think there may be one or two surprises currently playing in the UK.

Hoping so, Chester said 33 and I think 30 of them are pretty much known, so there's 3 non quota players left that need to be ones competing for the 17

[phiggins]

20 minutes ago, LeytherRob said:

He'll be a straight swap for O'Donnell I think as we aren't flush with numbers for front line second rowers. Does mean our starting 13 next year is pretty much known now:

1. Armstrong

2. McIntosh

3. Hanley

4. Niu

5. Charnley

6. Moylan/quota replacement if he retires

7. Lam

8. Pene

9. Ipape

10. Mulhern

11. Condon

12. Halton

13. Liu

The gamble on that would be the fact that there are 4 players in there that have just moved over from Aus. Doubtful that they'll all settle in straight away, and we might only be able to judge them in 2026 (if they're still here). Dufty and Marsters examples of this. 

We're in dire need of a goalkicker as well.

[LeytherRob]

1 hour ago, phiggins said:

The gamble on that would be the fact that there are 4 players in there that have just moved over from Aus. Doubtful that they'll all settle in straight away, and we might only be able to judge them in 2026 (if they're still here). Dufty and Marsters examples of this. 

We're in dire need of a goalkicker as well.

Possibly, but Dufty and Marsters were also playing in struggling sides with some culture issues. 
 

on the goalkicking front, if Moylan does leave then that gives the opportunity for a kicking half to come in. It would be a controversial take, but if he does retire I personally would be considering giving McNamara a go(who is a very strong goalkicker and was solid for us earlier in the year) and give Moylans marquee money straight to Ipape on a 5 year deal and try and nail him down. Then either use the quota on a younger option from Oz or hold it back to see how the squad shapes up.

[phiggins]

8 minutes ago, LeytherRob said:

Possibly, but Dufty and Marsters were also playing in struggling sides with some culture issues. 
 

on the goalkicking front, if Moylan does leave then that gives the opportunity for a kicking half to come in. It would be a controversial take, but if he does retire I personally would be considering giving McNamara a go(who is a very strong goalkicker and was solid for us earlier in the year) and give Moylans marquee money straight to Ipape on a 5 year deal and try and nail him down. Then either use the quota on a younger option from Oz or hold it back to see how the squad shapes up.

I don’t think that would be a controversial take at all. The club need to do everything they can to extend Ipape’s stay. And what is the point of signing McNamara if we’re not going to give him a chance 

[MZH]

14 hours ago, phiggins said:

Did you think he would be staying at Manly and doing the bulk of the work remotely when reading the press release Hull put out?

The press release doesn't really make it clear one way or another, but the use of the word "consultant" should have been a clue. 

I heard a few weeks ago that Cartwright was bringing a S&C expert across with him for a few weeks in pre season, so I suppose I read the press release kind of already knowing it wasn't a full time appointment. I realise that if you hadn't already heard that then you might have misunderstood it.

Anyway, it's still a good appointment whether he's here full time or not. It's not like he's going to head of S&C and working remotely. He is just a consultant for the full time guys to confer with. The more good people we have on the backroom staff the better, whatever capacity they are working in.

[Fly-By-TheWire]

Thought Milford would end up at Leigh to replace Moylan, but seems he's found a NRL club now. Well, an extension to his deal.

Edited October 4 by Fly-By-TheWire

[Ullman]

19 hours ago, phiggins said:

Did you think he would be staying at Manly and doing the bulk of the work remotely when reading the press release Hull put out?

It was clear he was going to be working with the club purely on a consultancy basis. Looks like a good move to me and it's not really of any interest where he's going to be based most of the time. The club have recently announced  a new head of conditioning so it was obvious they're just tapping into Clarke's expertise. From what Manly have to say about him I can't see a downside. 

[phiggins]

5 hours ago, MZH said:

The press release doesn't really make it clear one way or another, but the use of the word "consultant" should have been a clue. 

I heard a few weeks ago that Cartwright was bringing a S&C expert across with him for a few weeks in pre season, so I suppose I read the press release kind of already knowing it wasn't a full time appointment. I realise that if you hadn't already heard that then you might have misunderstood it.

Anyway, it's still a good appointment whether he's here full time or not. It's not like he's going to head of S&C and working remotely. He is just a consultant for the full time guys to confer with. The more good people we have on the backroom staff the better, whatever capacity they are working in.

 

38 minutes ago, Ullman said:

It was clear he was going to be working with the club purely on a consultancy basis. Looks like a good move to me and it's not really of any interest where he's going to be based most of the time. The club have recently announced  a new head of conditioning so it was obvious they're just tapping into Clarke's expertise. From what Manly have to say about him I can't see a downside. 

Consultancy can work in many different ways. A consultant might be on a client site numerous times a week, or they might be fully remote but working full time on a project. Or it can be a lighter touch, in someone's spare time from their full time employment like in this case.

I don't have too much of an issue with the appointment, seems a good idea to me in fact. I just think that if you are going to post something on your website that references him 'joining' the club, along with the DoR describing it as a huge coup, then the context of him continuing in his role in Australia while providing this service should've been provided as well. 

[Ullman]

7 minutes ago, phiggins said:

 

Consultancy can work in many different ways. A consultant might be on a client site numerous times a week, or they might be fully remote but working full time on a project. Or it can be a lighter touch, in someone's spare time from their full time employment like in this case.

I don't have too much of an issue with the appointment, seems a good idea to me in fact. I just think that if you are going to post something on your website that references him 'joining' the club, along with the DoR describing it as a huge coup, then the context of him continuing in his role in Australia while providing this service should've been provided as well. 

Fair comment as usual from yourself and the "huge coup" statement is clearly a bit of spin to put it mildly but it seems like a good idea to me too.

[Damien]

If this was true you'd imagine SL clubs would snap him up:

 

[Chrispmartha]

On 04/10/2024 at 19:18, Damien said:

If this was true you'd imagine SL clubs would snap him up:

 

Rumour is he’ll end up at Leeds.

talking of which

 

[Chrispmartha]

Add another to that. Looks like a good young prospect, he’s a big lad, and fast apparently. Watched him play for Norths yesterday and he stood out.

 

 

[binosh]

Tesi Niu confirmed to Leigh replacement for Leutele.

https://x.com/loverugbyleague/status/1843589141264478453?s=46&t=o2BhmpVeQSD-bQHijYmFag

 

Edited October 8 by binosh