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Forgotten about Edwards. What a great signing he was. Gave 100% every time and pretty injury free if I remember. Could do with half a dozen like him now.

Yeah - fair enough. They were decent pro’s who worked hard.

Before him, Cockayne and Horne. We’ve never replaced those two, a ball playing forward and a tough half-back who created something out of nothing.

In terms of Yorks ‘star signing’, there’s been one - Thompson. The rest have been a waste of time and money.

Just add him to the list of lousy signings (there are several other words I could have used that are less polite). Getting to be quite a long list since 2019. I don’t think the word “commitment” and “Ritchie Myler” should ever be used together.

I hope the lad goes well for us, but I’m not sure a 21 year-old second row who has played an handful of first team games for for 8 or 9 clubs (albeit mostly on loan) is really the answer for York. But if the cash isn’t there, what else can they do? On a different note, where is our Chairman by the way? Keeping a very low profile this season….

Lets just hope we can avoid the jaw-breaking and pointless late hits on the opposition. The last thing we need is more of the team sitting in the stands to add to our obligatory injuries. Any news on Bailey and Levi? I’d quite like to see them play again before I take my final journey to the crematorium. There’s nothing wrong with me, but the speed York players recover you never know.

Would be great to have a Chairman with some real cash. I’m another who has never been convinced by him. That’s the only way we’ll ever be a SL team, let alone a quality one. Even then it’s no guarantee - look at how much Hughes has pumped into London. During my 50 years of watching York it’s always bemused me why the city has never been an RL powerhouse (or a football one for that matter) and failed to attract fans and significant investors.

Hard to rate our performance once we went down to 12 permanently. Not sure for how long we had 13 players on the pitch? 20 minutes if that? If Dagger did headbutt then he should know better. So that will him out for what, 3 or 4 games? Thought Myler showed touches of class, but where is our offloading game? Been like this for years now. Haven’t had an offloading forward since Horne retired. I hope a returning Bailey or Levi can induce a bit of spark. Team seemed flat.

Got some quality backs to come in, some sooner than others. We’ve got the new loanee in the forwards (only a youngster and for how long?) plus Ronan and Bailey (not for a while). That’s it (I’m talking bulky forwards not Daley, good though he is). We’ve lost Kirmond, Clarkson and PP (if you want to count him). Forwards hardly set the division alight last year. Given the forwards squad, why do people expect this year to be different in the middle? Guess we’ll just have to see. Assuming we beat Dewsbury, Sheffield will be a good marker.

PP - 24 games and 2 tries. Usually on the pitch for about 30 minutes resulting in about 6 carries and 6 tackles. Should have killed it at Championship level and he didn’t. Toss up between him and sick note as to who was the biggest waste of money. Divide £’s payed by minutes played and those two are up there with Ponga and Cleary in terms of reward

That’s great news. So we’ve got Harris, Hingano, Myler, Cunningham and Daley who can play half-back. Surely that should be enough cover?? Plus don’t some of the new young lads play there? If they are all fit, that will be some selection headache. Still think we are short on big, top Championship-quality props, but what do I know. Roll-on next season!

That is a signing! Will he be full back or half-back? Is it me, or so we seem to have a lot of half-backs all of a sudden? Can’t wait to see what Hendo’s preferred first 17 will look like.

Lots of willing blokes in the pack, but we rarely dominated anyone. When Fev and Leigh turned up they had some real beasts and dwarfed some of our forwards. PP is/was the only York player of similar stature. Need more size.

Well he’s off to play for the Cutters who are the feeder team for the Cowboys. Might work out for him, might not. But he’s giving it a go and being 22 and playing RL in Aus has probably got the edge on being pimped out to various RL teams in the north of England. Good luck to him.