It will be good if we can finish higher this season , especially with the way the 3 year average works , however it shouldn't make a difference to player recruitment for 2026 , as this should be something that we are looking to do from the moment we are able to talk to out of contract players at other clubs. All our main recruitment for 2026 should , theoretically , be completed by mid-season and long before our final position is known . That said a team performing better on the pitch (in the first half of the season) and with McGuire's potential connections, would certainly help to attract new players to the club.
The Category A grading this year is the reason we will/should be able to recruit better players for 2026. MJ said in his podacst that one of the hardest things was trying to convince potential signings that we were going to be in SL in 2025 , even though we knew that we would be . I think that this will be a bigger factor in attracting new players to the club than where we finish in the league at the end of the season.
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