From Yorkshire Post website..

Good, shame he left League for Union so hope he comes back.

Is Thornley a better player than the Rhinos already have? The last sentence of the article is interesting in that allegedly the Rhinos are looking to bolster their backs for next season. Obviously Brian McD is wanting to strengthen in this area.

Hopefully this is a sign of things to come. Maybe Joel Tomkins will end up been loaned at Leeds Carnegie if he starts performing badly for Saracens.

there would be alot of angry people at wigan if this was the case. but in hes last season at wigan alot of people was saying now others have caught up to him he wasn't no where near as effective.

Sign him up.

at the moment hardaker is yet to have a full season @ centre , watkins is yet to finish one and smith couldn't run one last year so another proper centre avoids playing second rows there

How good a player is Thornley and is he better than Watkins, Hardaker etc? It apppears that Rhinos management think we need some addition to the threequarters but the new signing should be of the right quality. I assume we woul have to pay Sale a transfer fee?
Gary H is going to Australia next month and it would be interesting to know which player areas he is looking at.

I would agree......but unless the new addition is exceptional/Ingliss then Watkins and Hardaker should be given every opportunity to stake their claims as starting centres. Their 2012 squad numbers do indicate that this echoes the club's sentiments too.

I should imagine that if we made a signing like this, it would be to provide initially back-up to Watkins and Hardaker (you have to have more than two centres available) and hopefully subsequently competition if he's up to it.

Am I right in thinking our only cover at centre thats proven would be Ablett?

And Delaney.

Both can do a perfectly good job there, but I think both are better used in the pack, and if a suitable, affordable out-and-out centre could be found, that would be better IMO.

d'oh, forgot t'old crayola arms

For centres the full set would be:

Zak Hardaker, Kallum Watkins, Lee Smith, Ben Jones-Bishop, Brett Delaney, Carl Ablett, Jamie Jones-Buchanan.

You forgot Ryan Hall ! NANTWICH'S GONNA GET YA!!!

As "proven" centres, I appreciate that you can define "proven" in a variety of ways, but how many senior grade matches have BJB and JJB played at centre? I can't remember JJB ever playing there. Willie Poching played about 60 minutes of a win at Odsal as a centre once, but I wouldn't have regarded him as suitable squad cover for the position.

........good one.......

Didn't JJB play centre in the home game against Cas when we were missing about 18 players, mainly due to the international call up's?