After watching Morley demolish Wigan the other night I would say he is probably still the most destructive forward in SL.

Yep Brain fart.

I wouldn't call Morley a mid-season signing he only played in 5 games.

Yeah.. I was thinking that.. but i wouldn't call Ben Harris a 2004 signing either.

And he did very little in them. We would have been better keeping Lynch in the side.

The signing that got us going that season was Hendo.

Back to this season, I do think we need a signing to get us going again, Rinaldi has done fine, but I do think we need to freshen the competition in the backs

Although I think Morley didn't make that much of an impact, a couple of big runs at OT aside, how exactly would we have been better? We went on a long winning run and won the title did we not?

Lynch was also a different player the next season, reacting the right way to what happened and kicking on.

Financially?

Bringing new people in would be good. Unfortunately fitting them under the cap may pose a problem!

Greg Bird wouldn't have been coming cheap.

Indeed.
I don't know if we could get Rinaldi and someone else into the squad though.

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Tupou out and Bird not signed = Rinaldi in? Surely not.

The problem is finding someone available at this point, and then them wanting to come here.

And Peter Hood said, at the start of the year, that we had cap space available should someone be available. From that and the outgoing Toupu we must have space for at least 2 players. Rinaldi's deal being only short term means we are flexible so if better options become available we don't retain him beyond the 2 months but I'd be ok with extending his deal to the end of the season pending a fuller review of the squad.

Making any major singing now has risks as anyone available is normally damaged goods in some way or not deemed worthy at their current club and for every Hendo that works out there's a Tupou who doesn't.

That's always the problem mid season

Is Tupou's salary not paid to him then under this ruling?

Indeed, that's a point I made when others were coming out with the "we are saving money for a mid-season signing if we need it".

Unless you've got money for a transfer fee, or an eye for some decent talent languishing in a NRL reserve grade, you are probably left looking at a drunk, wife-beater or some other deviant.

He was paid his two weeks notice.

or you take a risk that someone playing at a lower level can step up but they are all risky signings.

Ben Harris didn't fit in to any of those.

Can't remember the exact circumstances (homesick girlfriend?) but the few exceptions usually prove the rules!

That is alot of players

Yeah lets sign up Solomona the man who may never be fit to play AGAIN ever and who landed us with a £75,000 bill for blocking a toilet

A well thought out post, completely spoiled by this gem.

he also cost us in the region of £90000 AND Brett Ferres.

I like the topic starters optimism however there's little similarity. Also remember belief was still there from the '04 GF appearance. You have declined for a few years now and that shatters confidence and belief from both fans and players.

Straugheir hasnt even been spoken to yet about a new contract, why leave it late to look at contracts surely they know who they want by now, they should do decent thing and tell players who they are keeping or letting go so that they can sort summat else out, it would at least put the players mind at rest if they had another club lined up.