Stand-off Lee Hanlan and forward Matt Lambert have been sacked by York Rugby League Club.

Coach Dean Robinson today placed the pair on the transfer list and declared neither would not pull on a Wasps shirt again this season.The Wasps boss said he was unhappy with their commitment to the club both on and off the field.

The club have not set transfer fees for Lambert and Hanlan but are "inviting offers" for the two players.

Said Robinson: "With both of them, I have not been happy with their commitment to the club both on and off the field in certain areas.

"And, having focused positively on the second half of the season, I feel it is time to make sure there was no one in the camp I was not 100 per cent happy with and was not giving 100 per cent to the promotion drive.

"They will not train with us from now on. There are no prices involved, we will listen to reasonable offers. We have another 24 players who need my attention."

Hanlan, scorer of three tries in his nine games, endured the wrath of his coach early in the season for missing training, finding himself dropped from the squad for the second game of the league campaign.

Since then his only absences were enforced by injury but the writing appeared to be on the wall when the half-back was hauled off at half-time in last week's defeat of Doncaster Dragons.

And Robinson clearly believes the half-back combination of John Strange and Mick Crane, which brought the Wasps six second half tries last week, is promising enough to jettison Irish international Hanlan.

The 26-year-old's career has been somewhat nomadic in recent years, including spells at Hunslet, Wakefield, Keighley, Batley and Halifax.

Lambert, also 26, made an impressive start to his York career with a man-of-the-match winning display in the Silk Cut Challenge Cup tie at Swinton.

However, only two starts have followed and the versatile Australian, signed from Featherstone Rovers, has sat out half of the club's Second Division matches.

The coach declined to expand on the stated reason for the players' departure, except to say there were "a number of incidents in relation to their commitment".

Prop forward Lea Tichener was found not guilty by the Rugby Football League disciplinary committee following his sending off against Doncaster.

Dragons second rower Tony Miller, dismissed in the same incident, received a "sending off sufficient" verdict.

Following the game, Tichener insisted he threw no punches in retaliation after being kicked in the face by a grounded Doncaster player.

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