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Re: Recruitment

Post by tigerfeat » 05 Aug 2018, 18:32

We've not had our money's worth from Roberts maybe there will be a twist in the tale and he will help win us final in a few weeks ..
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Post by tigerfeat » 09 Aug 2018, 22:01

Wonder if jon wells is thinking of Anthony gelling for next year no way known to man will Widnes be in super league
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Post by jackknife » 10 Aug 2018, 10:23

Gelling would of been perfect for us but can only think he wanted paying to much
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Post by Mysterio » 10 Aug 2018, 17:44

tigerfeat wrote:Wonder if jon wells is thinking of Anthony gelling for next year no way known to man will Widnes be in super league
Think the deal isn’t dependant on SL status
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Post by MØL » 10 Aug 2018, 17:45

Mysterio wrote:
tigerfeat wrote:Wonder if jon wells is thinking of Anthony gelling for next year no way known to man will Widnes be in super league
Think the deal isn’t dependant on SL status
Didn't someone post something about Gelling saying he'd still play for Widnes in the Championship if they went down.

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Post by HuddsTigers » 10 Aug 2018, 17:54

Yeah he did say that but it's not always a case of what the player wants but whether they need to cut their cloth.

Their attendances aren't sustainable even in the Championship and I think they'll cut their cloth to avoid another Leigh scenario.
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Post by MØL » 10 Aug 2018, 18:00

HuddsTigers wrote:Yeah he did say that but it's not always a case of what the player wants but whether they need to cut their cloth.

Their attendances aren't sustainable even in the Championship and I think they'll cut their cloth to avoid another Leigh scenario.
Well if they need to offload him, Cas should be sniffing around as other clubs will be.

Attendance last time was very poor, something like 3400 but suppose losing 16 (now 17) on the bounce doesn't help.

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Post by fords » 13 Aug 2018, 09:06

Mysterio wrote:
tigerfeat wrote:Wonder if jon wells is thinking of Anthony gelling for next year no way known to man will Widnes be in super league
Think the deal isn’t dependant on SL status
Unless QLT, Webster, Springer, Maher, Aston or anybody else not required go not sure who we will sign if anybody as we must be almost up to the cap now. All these new contracts to keep our best players wont have come cheap.

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Post by Sharlotiger » 13 Aug 2018, 11:35

fords wrote:
Mysterio wrote:
tigerfeat wrote:Wonder if jon wells is thinking of Anthony gelling for next year no way known to man will Widnes be in super league
Think the deal isn’t dependant on SL status
Unless QLT, Webster, Springer, Maher, Aston or anybody else not required go not sure who we will sign if anybody as we must be almost up to the cap now. All these new contracts to keep our best players wont have come cheap.
But doesn't the SC go up by another £100K next season? So with 1 or 2 leaving it may give us the opportunity to bring in another couple of decent players.

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Post by Casmoley » 13 Aug 2018, 17:48

next year is interesting for me, if we are up to cap we may be already looking at letting some players go at the end of next year. The likes of Ben Roberts and Mike Shenton will either go or have a cheaper contract. If Gadwin and Will Maher stay next year I think they won't earn new deals. Mitch Clark would likely get a better deal. Egodo, Gill and Aston need to prove their worth. Meaning we should have plenty of space on the cap. We would need to fill that with some squad players if some of the above go but we could see some class come in.

I would expect a quiet pre season this year with hopefully one or two qualiry additions. But a busy end of 2019 leading into 2020.

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Post by HuddsTigers » 13 Aug 2018, 18:04

People like Shenton and Cook will be in the latter stage of their careers so their value will reduce as a result. I can't see Roberts staying unless he has a huge 2019 season. Even then it will be on a lower contract than he's on now. Personally, I think he'll go back to Oz on his own terms and perhaps go play lower grade with someone like Dorny where there's less demand on his body. Think we could free up around £150k here along with retaining Shenton and Cook, enough for two more players or a decent replacement for Roberts.

It will be interesting to see whether we keep Massey too.
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Post by Casmoley » 13 Aug 2018, 19:16

HuddsTigers wrote:People like Shenton and Cook will be in the latter stage of their careers so their value will reduce as a result. I can't see Roberts staying unless he has a huge 2019 season. Even then it will be on a lower contract than he's on now. Personally, I think he'll go back to Oz on his own terms and perhaps go play lower grade with someone like Dorny where there's less demand on his body. Think we could free up around £150k here along with retaining Shenton and Cook, enough for two more players or a decent replacement for Roberts.

It will be interesting to see whether we keep Massey too.

Massey & Minikin the two I missed off (wasn't with my contract sheet) expect both will stay unless they have hurrendous years in 2019

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Post by MØL » 13 Aug 2018, 20:56

HuddsTigers wrote:People like Shenton and Cook will be in the latter stage of their careers so their value will reduce as a result. I can't see Roberts staying unless he has a huge 2019 season. Even then it will be on a lower contract than he's on now. Personally, I think he'll go back to Oz on his own terms and perhaps go play lower grade with someone like Dorny where there's less demand on his body. Think we could free up around £150k here along with retaining Shenton and Cook, enough for two more players or a decent replacement for Roberts.

It will be interesting to see whether we keep Massey too.
Been thinking that since early in the season. Would imagine we will retain him as a squad player.

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Post by lurcher » 14 Aug 2018, 00:03

Casmoley wrote:next year is interesting for me, if we are up to cap we may be already looking at letting some players go at the end of next year. The likes of Ben Roberts and Mike Shenton will either go or have a cheaper contract. If Gadwin and Will Maher stay next year I think they won't earn new deals. Mitch Clark would likely get a better deal. Egodo, Gill and Aston need to prove their worth. Meaning we should have plenty of space on the cap. We would need to fill that with some squad players if some of the above go but we could see some class come in.

I would expect a quiet pre season this year with hopefully one or two qualiry additions. But a busy end of 2019 leading into 2020.
wonder if he's gone already, wellsy did say we now had £416 cap space. :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Post by steadygetyerboots-on » 14 Aug 2018, 00:06

MØL wrote:
HuddsTigers wrote:People like Shenton and Cook will be in the latter stage of their careers so their value will reduce as a result. I can't see Roberts staying unless he has a huge 2019 season. Even then it will be on a lower contract than he's on now. Personally, I think he'll go back to Oz on his own terms and perhaps go play lower grade with someone like Dorny where there's less demand on his body. Think we could free up around £150k here along with retaining Shenton and Cook, enough for two more players or a decent replacement for Roberts.

It will be interesting to see whether we keep Massey too.
Been thinking that since early in the season. Would imagine we will retain him as a squad player.
I was under the impression he has a deal at Toronto, but not seen anything confirming it.
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Post by Nobody » 14 Aug 2018, 00:18

I know he sold his house in Cas and moved to another house in Cas. Unless he's renting the new one. Having said that he's just bought a brand new motorbike as well. He was also spending time decorating the new house.

Be strange to move into a new house and decorate if he wasn't staying in the area.
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Post by the machine » 14 Aug 2018, 00:53

MØL wrote:
HuddsTigers wrote:People like Shenton and Cook will be in the latter stage of their careers so their value will reduce as a result. I can't see Roberts staying unless he has a huge 2019 season. Even then it will be on a lower contract than he's on now. Personally, I think he'll go back to Oz on his own terms and perhaps go play lower grade with someone like Dorny where there's less demand on his body. Think we could free up around £150k here along with retaining Shenton and Cook, enough for two more players or a decent replacement for Roberts.

It will be interesting to see whether we keep Massey too.
Been thinking that since early in the season. Would imagine we will retain him as a squad player.
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Post by betts21 » 14 Aug 2018, 14:34

Im a Massey fan always does the hard work rarely misses a tackle or drops the ball tends to win the floor for a quick play of the ball underrated player as he doesn't do the flash stuff.

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Post by the machine » 14 Aug 2018, 18:07

betts21 wrote:Im a Massey fan always does the hard work rarely misses a tackle or drops the ball tends to win the floor for a quick play of the ball underrated player as he doesn't do the flash stuff.
That pretty much echoes my sentiments
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Post by peter parker » 14 Aug 2018, 18:41

the machine wrote:
betts21 wrote:Im a Massey fan always does the hard work rarely misses a tackle or drops the ball tends to win the floor for a quick play of the ball underrated player as he doesn't do the flash stuff.
That pretty much echoes my sentiments
Yep. I agree with that completely.

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