Very good squad, short of an experienced prop for me though. Nice to have the cap space free should something come up.

As far as I'm aware, the isnt much cap space to play with. We went for a winger and couldn't do the deal as we couldn't pay him enough due to the cap.

No prop coming in

Was it a case of not being able to stump up enough or deciding there wasn't value in the deal?

But you can gain cap space during the year surely. If you loan players out, you reduce predicted spending and bringing in partway through means the player costs less overall that year. So it gives us more wiggle room the later you leave it.

We just didn't have the cap space

Not entirely true mate. Even if we had the space to pay what he wanted, I very much doubt we'd have paid that much for that player.

We have enough space to bring in an above average salary.

Who was the winger mate?

Cory Patterson is a decent signing for Salford, could probably have done a job for us.

He's a good signing for Salford. I think they will go well next year

Me too mate I agree, as long as they don't get stung with a few injuries. Their first 17 looks good but still lacking depth for me.

He's building tho, the squad getting bigger and better next year. I expect them to make about 5th this year and then build on that each year.

Yeah probably right. The battle for top 4 next year should be a good one, especially those last 7 games.

Can someone please pm me with the name of the bloody winger

J R Hartley.

A decent enough squad but dragged down by numbers 4 & 5.

What's your issue with Swift?

No issue, just don't think hes good enough. I hope he proves me wrong but I am entitled to an opinion.

And Josh. Josh is a very useful player. Not many can play second row and centre.

He has had problems in defence but so has every young winger in Super League; he isn't on his own though.

However in attack there are only a handful in this country more dangerous than he is.

The problem is Swift needs a settled centre alongside him to create an understanding partnership, I,ve watched in detail the Jones/Swift position, in my opinion it doesn,t work.

I think swift is a very good player.

I agree leave Swifty alone he can beat a man and just needs to improve his defensive duty's and he could play for England one day. Cracking prospect still young.

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A great deal of improvement required before he is international standard. Just because his name is Swift it does not mean he is fast.

Jones is not a centre. His handling and reading of the game leaves much to be desired in this position.

I'm a big fan of Jones in the left centres position.

His defensive abilities and strength are important for the left hand side. His attack does need work, but because of the way he plays, I think it's easy to forget he's only a year older than Percival.