MCB

I'll be honest if MCB goes it is a sad indication of where we are, if we are to be a top 8 force players of the quality of MCB are what you build a squad with.

I'd love for us to keep him.

The realities may be different though. I understand that Clubs can't retain everyone, and with us not knowing where Ian and Tim want the team to be heading next season, player-wise, these things will happen. It can't help the Club being in the M8's again, which means that retention and re-signings are put on hold until SL status is confirmed can't help the situation. He's coming to the end of his contract and is playing really well. I'm sure MCB will be offered something at Salford. Whether it's what he wants may be another question.

I wouldn't blame him for keeping his options open.

I think fans although they may be disappointed if he leaves they have to realise the realities of the game don't often meld with what we would like to happen. This happens at every Club and is not an indictment of Salford in my eyes. It's just the fluctuating coming and goings of employees in a workplace.

if MCB does depart, I would like to think he would be to a team with perceived 'better' prospect and development for him personally. I see Wakefield as a side ways step at best!

Hope he stays though.

That's what I was thinking, we might not have brought him through our system but letting a talented young British player leave is a retrograde step.

We must have problems in the Club if he Prefers the Tetley stadium @ Dewsbury to Das Grand - Stadion auf Dem kanal

I really think people should be a little more thoughtful on the subject of players leaving.

As fans, we're emotionally attached to our club and we deal with these things emotionally rather than with our heads. Our first thoughts are to be disappointed and feel the need to attach blame and then use it as an example of how negative the whole Club is in general. I think this is a self-defeating attitude that really contributes to the actual negatives at the Club such as crowd figures.

The reality of a professional sport means that people come and go. Just like any workplace you get people who are ambitious, happy, unhappy, disruptive, leaders, and any number of other traits. They earn a living by giving us our hobby. For us it's whether we start the week feeling optimistic after a win, or worried all week about the next fixture. It's banter at work, and something to look forward to. For them, it's their living. It's hard hard work, and putting your health on the line. It's contracted short-term work where it's tough to see even a few years into your future.

Players come and go. In May we had to legally offer MCB something or allow him to search for other employment before the end of his contract. We don't know what Watson and Sheens has planned for the next two years and it's their job to make tough decisions about players. I trust their judgement. I like MCB and would like him to stay, but we don't know the realities that the lad faces. His employment contract is coming to an end and he's spent a lot of time out of the squad this season. He may have had offers from elsewhere that secured his financial future for the next few years. We don't know. Maybe he fancies a change of scenery. Who knows?

I've seen the Club and MK getting stuff on social media thrown at them by fans who just go with their emotions about a subject and don't stop to think about the bigger picture, and I think this is more damaging in the long run than losing a player. Players come and go. That's the reality of pro sport. Our fans should listen to the many interviews Sheens has given and the parts where he talks about the ebb and flow of the game off the pitch, contracts, signings, loyalty in players are really worth listening to. I think a lot of RL fans are still quite parochial in the way they believe things should happen. Like they've got stuck in a mentality from thirty or forty years ago while modern life and the modern game move on.

Just my thoughts.

Trouble is, MR, is that you're taking one situation (MCB possibly going) and then using it to apply to another area (The uncertainty of MK) without any evidence except your own uncertainty on the subject. Got to be careful linking unrelated things together as it's quite easy to convince yourself, and then consequently others, of its validity. This was my point in the post above.

We can't keep every player that plays for us. I'm sure there may be others before the start of next season. Teams and Clubs are built this way. Sometimes it's that simple and there isn't any underlying reason behind every decision a Club makes.