"Our focus as well as the pre-season training programme now includes further recruitment which at this time of the year is far from ideal, however these are the cards we have been dealt and we move on from the past and look forward with excitement and confidence to the start of the Super League season.”
This load of tosh sounds to me like that will be his excuse when all the fans kick off when we announce Ryan Bailey in a Giants shirt. I will be FUMING if this is the case.
We currently have 1 EXPERIENCED prop in our team and loads of youngsters. When we have 2 quota spots available and we are losing experienced British players such as Huby and Eorl. Unless we sign a Burgess or a Graham I don't see how they can be replaced so easily as most squads from UK have been complete - which makes me think the Bailey rumours could be true.
I think people need to wake up and realise how badly the club is run. We must have ridiculous amounts of cap space available at the moment.
We have lost:
Huby, Crabtree, Johnson, Grix, Connor, Wood & Ellis and still potentially Wardle and replaced with Clough, Gaskell & Ferguson and we were extremely short of players last season.
Although most of the players which have left I agree with we are still massively short of around 3/4 maybe 5 decent players now if we are going to compete in top 8 and push for top 4 again - I just can't see it happening or where players are going to come from as most UK teams are complete.
The only other British prop I can think of available is Ben Harrison but I would much rather have Huby.