But does he want to be just cover?

Its not perfect, but i would rotate him and Eastmond(barring excetional form), both given the knowledge that winner takes all at the end of the season. I also think that Eastmond could do a job a fullback when wello hangs up his boots.

Id be suprised if there wasnt a large chunk of money around.
All of the players i named would from reputation be on reasonably large wage and releasing 4 of them would provide us with some money

IMO anyway

Quote ="LS14 RHINO"Nathan Hindmarsh has knocked back offers from both Wigan and Saints to remain loyal to Parramatta. www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/s ... 66,00.html'" Shows Saints are looking for a Second row / prop aswell as the Sola signig. Glad we missed out on Hindmarsh. Too old. I want Mark O Meley.

Quote ="LS14 RHINO"Nathan Hindmarsh has knocked back offers from both Wigan and Saints to remain loyal to Parramatta. www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/s ... 66,00.html'" Shows Saints are looking for a Second row / prop aswell as the Sola signig. Glad we missed out on Hindmarsh. Too old. I want Mark O Meley.

Not too old to make 50-60 tackles a game though.

We have Wilkin to do that job.

We need the hard yards down the middle. A prop who will get us valuable metres when we look tired or off our game.

Nathan Hindmarsh is not that type of player imo.

O'meley, god yes please!

If we have Hindmarsh to do the donkey work, Wilkin can be a more ball-playing backrower.

I'm with Ashmeister on this one. We have plenty of grafting back rowers already. The one thing we are missing (and have been since Anderson retired) is a big brute of a front rower who guarantees yards forward, regardless of who the opposition are.

I don't think we can afford to lose KC, Gidley, Long and Cayless all at once. If we do lose them, then I would say we have to look at recruiting two more players for our squad even if Eastmond, Wheeler, Soliola and Moore take up spots within the side.

IMO, we need a workhorse prop and maybe a back.

The thing is, people are already saying we don't have enough depth in the squad. If we lose them four players, and replace them with the four you named, then we will be even lighter in the squad as two of those players already take up 2 squad places. IMO, we need to keep Long, Cunningham and Gidley, and look to replace Cayless with a big prop. Then we will have the current squad, plus a prop forward to replace Cayless and then Moore and Soliola in the squad. I'd also look to bring in another back, preferably a very quick one, that can add a bit of compeition and pace to the side.

Sidlow and Ratchford from Salford being "monitored".

Lack of game time and being played out of
position/opportunities respectively
means they could be available for
next season.

Sidlow provides a domestic replacment for Cayless
while Ratchford is seen as a hb with
an all round kicking game.

Ratchford would be good for the future.

I think Ratchford will be better than Myler and would love us go for him.

www.skysports.com/story/0,19528, ... 62,00.html

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Would be nice, but a bit of a kick to Kyle/Matty

Anybody smell yet another Australian international on the lookout for a big fat new deal down under?

Not a cat in hells chance of seeing Thurston over here until he's at least 31-32.

Funny when you think because when he was in the Bulldogs reserves i bet a superleague team could have got him for about 40k a year

That was my thought too.

he already been there 1 was on wigans scholarship and fired him off whats up with sam tomkins anyway

Lets hope we don't let Ratchford, Myler, Adamson, Sidlow or Turner go

At best that is just for 2011 and by then surely your kids will have stepped upto the plate,otherwise you'll lose them?

At worst its just his agent trying to get him a better pay packet

Not a rumour but i would love us sign Craig Hall from Hull.

Think he could be a great addition to our backline. Very fast and good hands.

Not getting a look in at Hull at the minute but i reckon we could get the best out of him.

I agree to some extent. I think he has been very poorly handled by Hull. He should be a world beater by now.
I remember watching him play against Israel Folau in the academy internationals v australia and he was every bit a match for Folau.

It says a lot about UK player development that Folau is regarded as one of the worlds best players, while Hull have ditched Hall for some journeyman

Where would we fit him in though? I'd take Wheeler at centre before him and Lomax at full back.

He needs to move somewhere where he'll be taught how to defend pretty quick though.

As you know I've been on about that many times.
Darryl Goulding was the other centre and they were certainly not overplayed.

Somehow we don't seem to be able to take that next step (admittedly a big one) that takes us to that next level.

I've lost count of the number of beers I've managed to get down my throat discussing the reasons with true RL supporters of many clubs, and NEVER being able to come up with definitive reasons.