Good to hear , I think we should still go very gently and mainly play Bentley

No Bentley?.

Though I'd go that set up too.

Gannon / Mcdonnell/Bentley as first choice with cover from Oxonnor and Jenkins etc should be fine.
Any academy backrowers pushing up?

If Gannons main / only issue has been concussion stuff but he was still able to train then starting early on bulk up would be a great idea

Littlewood is the next second rower expected to come through.

Re Gannon,just a remark from Rob Oates on the recent podcast ,”Has Morgan been out of the gym at all this last few months,he’s huge” or words to effect!

Gill Spencer new president

Personally, I don't give two hoots about Owl's on again/off again season ticket melodrama and think it would be best if he tucked his head under his wing and roosted through 25.

Probably hankering back to the days of Tawny Smith

Boo, get off the stage…

There’s something quite eyrie about you Arthur.

The eagle eyed among us have spotted the issue. We need to stop Harpying on about the Goldens and face the Bald truth.

Fran Goldthorp will sign for the Rhinos soon you'd imagine

Maybe. Maybe not. She's signed with the Loughborough RU team, and it sounds like it's with a view to her making the squad for next year's RU world cup. Not sure she'd want to jeopardise that by playing more games.

So maybe if she doesnt get picked, ... certainly need her, half the squad seem to be hanging up their boots...

He played for both whilst she was here before.

Sivo not looked good for Fiji. Granted only one game. I love how much PNG have come on in recent times.

That Nene Macdonald chap looks decent

Yeah Sivo looked slow and error ridden.

Macdonald is a very good player but left us no option with his disappearing act.

If we do have Hall and Sivo on the wings next year, on a wet and windy Friday night at Craven Park, I know which wing Mikey Lewis will be aiming at. If Momorovski does free up an overseas spot, I think we may be better getting a direct replacement from the NRL. Keep Handley on the wing and for me Jake plays 7 to put pressure on Frawley.

Sivo is knocking on but he's been class for a while.

I think a back line of

Miller
Hall
Handley
Newman
Sivo

With Connor / Edgell / Lumb /McCormack/ etc as cover is better and more reliable than we have had for a long time.

The go forward in those early tackles shoukd be much better and really help out the forwards

The thing to remember about Sivo is that his try scoring record his unbelievable. Not far off one a game competing with the big beasts in the NRL. If we can't (assuming he comes) get 20 tries out of him next season something is very wrong. I'll be able to live with a few errors in return. Agree with you regards Connor.

Sivos try scoring highlights seem to mainly show him getting on the end of passes to finish from close range. Not saying it's easy but he doesn't seem to create much himself ie from range and our 6, 7 and 1 need to combine well to make the best use of sivo and Hall.

I'd watch a couple of games, or at least the extended highlights. 15 metres from the line he's not just a full backs nightmare he's a wing, centre and full backs nightmare. Agree though, Arthur set up his left side well enough to insure he had a number of walk ins, but any wingers highlight reel has a lot of those.

McDonnell to centre good grief FYI Jenkins was one of the fastest 19year olds over 100m in Australia he could probably give McDonnell half a pitch start and still beat him over the other side a good grafter ill give you.

Yeah but we are talking about McDonnell covering centre if. If a starting centre gets injured. We should not carry a back on the bench, if a back isn’t fit then he doesn’t play. If you want to move Jenkins to centre over McDonnell if we get an injury that’s fine as well. However, if Jenkins is going to come as a prop who can cover back row then I’d probs move a back row one out to centre over him.