Sibbitt outclasses donaldson in all areas, who would have thought that of a 30 odd yr old ex salford player and donaldson being an up and coming 19 year old in the england knights squad! laughable really!!

Sibbitt is a borderline Chamionship 1/2 player. He makes the era of Matt Cook and Simon Finegan seem halcyon and should be in the taxi with Sykes and Herbert. He is Michael Worrincy without the tries, pace and likable demeanour.

Far too much hype/pressure has been put on the young players who are being brought into a very poor team. Whitehead, Burgess look good but the rest have all had one thing in common; they look physically short in a team which is itself lacking physical presence and leadership. If they had a decent crop of senior players around them we could judge but as they're packing down alongside crocks and journey men, it's hard to say how they'll develop.

Thanks Moislebugs, you got there before me.

Back to the question, what are his strengths that when added to more experience and coaching work on his weaknesses, will develop his potential into achievement for us?

if you watch donno he plays without fear and has fantastic technique in defence,in attack i think it has been obvious that he is low on confidence,he does have a good round the corner offload only seen it twice this year though i have noted it a lot more previously.he does have a passing game but i dont think he has ever had a run at thirteen to show this.he did prior to injury have good footwork and speed- only really seen in that break against halifax but he is building confidence and i think potter is saying just go and run the ball in build your confidence that way.think considering his size in that role he rearely goes backwards and does get over advantage line.

thanks domthebull, the stats confirm his tackling technique, a good offseason and with few injuries elsewhere in the pack he should have the confidence to get back to doing what he does best.

i must have been watching a different sibbit this year. the guy works, makes yards and tackles well. plus he will be on peanuts.

a rugby team needs players to do the dirty work, and sibbit does this. one of our better signings this season for me.

I don't normally agree with B4C2010 cos he appears to dislike everybody that plays for Bradford (and his opinion on Kearney inparticular is lunacy) but I'm with him on James Donaldson.

over rated. he's not very good. much like a lot of our young players.

Herbert can kick.

Briggs can kick

Sykes can kick

Ah Van certainly isn't the only bull that can kick

Jefferies has also kicked in the past I seem to remember. Addy also.

Exactly

Im quite sure many of the team are more than capable of making sure the KO doesnt go out on the full too

he does have quite a decent KO though. he's often caused a lot of confusion with them and a couple of times we've had the ball back from it.

I don't quite understand the slating of Ah Van. He's done a good job on the wing for us. All the best to him at Widnes, I'd have lived to have seen him sign on for another year or two on the wing for us.

If you are on about PAV then 6 kick offs on the full is shocking.

Looks like joel moon has signed for salford. Shame

From over here...

Leon Pryce - St.Helens
Chris Riley - Warrington
Matty Blythe - Warrington
Karl Pryce - Wigan
Ryan O'Hara - Crusaders
Brett Ferres - Castleford

If we have a quota spot left...

Sika Manu - Melbourne Storm
Todd Lowrie - Melbourne Storm
Brent Kite - Manly Sea Eagles
Ben Galea - Hull KR

Also Witt has signed for Harlequins

I DID tell people that I had been assured that we had more chance of signing the man in the moon than Joel Moon - but did people listen?

Kite or Manu would be great signings for us. Kite is possible but i doubt it.

T&A has Hood "vowing" there will be more signings.

Lets hope we get a quality signing, i got my letter through this morning about the season tickets, and how we need to spend the full cap to compete at the top, i reckon just 1 quality international player could sell a few more season tickets.

Could do with an imagination catcher. Leon would have fitted the bill.