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Hopefully he is recruiting some dense boned pack members and preparing their visas in the back ground.

The only thing that worries me about them 3 numbers are that 10 could have been left as they assumed Joseph might sign, and 12 I worry was earmarked for Foster who seemed to hang around long enough to get a decent offer but I'm ultimately guessing didnt get an offer he could accept. After seeing his Cas debut and how good he was defensively we surely could have done with him in the centre where Rohan signed him for

TBH I'm 99% sure Lowe has next to nothing to do with running the club. His health problems mean he's based down under and I doubt he's got anyone "lined up". He's been out of the game for too long. When he was last involved in RL administration he promised big things at NZ Warriors but failed to deliver.

Back in Oct/Nov, Joseph was going to be 13 I thought, and he was also a decent back-up hooker as well.

This may have legs, as i seem to remember Reveready (who seems to have some sort of connection to the club) said we had signed to NZ props from French RU.

Not sure if we are ever going to see this bloody visa though!

I'm not meaning to 'bag him', Bullseye. I mean, I fully appreciate the problems he's had (or would have had if he'd got his visa......), and my thoughts are actually nothing to do with this season. When the 'coalition of chaos' currently running the club turns into a 'Strong and Stable' leadership group, he may well turn out to be the super duper coach every seems to believe that he is, and indeed, let's hope so.

What I find hard to understand is, how we (the 'Royal' we, that is) whilst looking through his record, got the idea that he's somehow a great, top notch, proven coach, when to my mind I just can't see where that notion comes from.