Negotiations in progress, no point in saying anything now that might cost us some more money.

Read the post again and you will see.



But I take it that although you dont want to sign overseas players, you have no problem if they are already here?



How would say bringing someone like Tate in now whilst Watkins is fully ready, be any worse than not resigning a gited britsh player for various positions but resigning Donald who can only play wing?

He's two years older than when we signed him, my guess we would be we don't want to pay him anymore than we are now. Maybe even less in fact.

In other words our esteemed chairman will have offered them both deals. Those deals will be in line with our structure. If they don;t accept those deals and choose to move on they are free to do so.



There are not many players in this squad, if any, that we should break the structure for. If McGuire, Burrow and Sinfield can play within it should be good enough for Lee Smith. If it isn't, good luck Lee and I hope the move works out better for you than it did Chev.



Same for Kylie. I can understand why he'd want to cash in and if he does, good luck to him. He'd actually be much harder to replace than Lee Smith, IMO.

I've eluded to his age, but to be fair, I don't think Kylie's age matters much. I bet he's doing a similar job now then he was doing 5 or 10 years ago. He plays in short, sharp, spells. So he could play to the same level (barring injuries) for quite a few years yet. His performances haven't declined and he isn't dropping off. He's a right goer.

Again where am i been a hypocite??

We HAVE young british players to replace the departing british player if that occurs.

Broughton.

Ben jones bishop

Watkins

Gibson

Hall.

The fact we have overseas players here already is nothing to do with it nor does it equate to signing an overseas player to cover the loss of a british one.

Would you prefer to resign a overseas player who can play only one position (wing) at the expense of losing a gifted British player who can play various positions?

Replacing Chairman with CEO, that would be my interpretation also.

That doesn't come into it if we can't match the wasps offer and smith decides he's off!!

If it came as a straight choice to keep either donald or smith then i'd keep smith IF it fits within the curent wage structure.

That is all hypothetical though because each case is dealt with differently by GH.

Thats always been the case with GH.I get the impression he offers a figure and its not up for negotiation.

TBH can't knock him for it thsi club was on it's knees when he and caddick came in and they've turned it around.

Too many people don't know or choose to ignore the state we were in and if tight control of the wage structure plays it's part in our overall strenght as a club then long may it continue.