It's a smokescreen. The real target is Lionel Messi.

Stef and family there again last night

Isn't Liam Foran more of a Centre than a Half?

Foran is a 7.

My mistake, must have just seen him play centre at Manly as a stand in

What about Sneyd? There was some comment about not playing Evalds as a "local" lad and now Sneyd was MOM in League Express will not play at 7 on Friday? He produced two pieces of magic for tries, put in some other deft kicks and generally played well.
What we need is a general to organise the team on the pitch, some big go forward forwards and a proven goalkicker.

I've got to say I wasn't a massive Sneyd fan up until last night. Thought he had a poor opening 20 but so did the rest of the team, after that he was fantastic!! For Friday maybe him at 6 with Foran 7 & McGoldrick replacing R.Williams at centre or Murphy at Full Back if Evalds isn't giventhe nod??

I can't see Wigan letting Tomkins go as they'd need to use Murphy at full back




Just read that Ben Barba's in all sorts of trouble in Australia might be worth looking if he's available as he'd be just as prolific as Tomkins.

Ben Barba is currently the best fullback in the world IMO. It would be an absolutely outstanding signing, it's obvious he needs a fresh start aswell so it's not totally unbelievable that it could happen.

It wouldn't be the first time an outstanding young talent from the NRL has come over here to escape the media spotlight in Australia. If he has gone off the rails a move to Superleague would give him a new start and an opportunity to sort himself out.

Plus, we're all about the fresh starts these days with Mr Gleeson and Longy. Would be a better signing imo.

On a serious note, the main problem you are going to have is that if you manage to tempt a big name like Tomkins to your club, they are going to have to be massively overpaid in order to just get them to join, so taking an unrealistic chunk of your Salary Cap.

We had similar at Wire, when we signed Langer and then had to stack the team with some right rubbish around him...



At the moment, your problem is that you don't exactly have much to entice a big name player, bar the Doctor's hefty wallet - Your crowds are pretty dire and though you might claim a big signing would boost this, its fair to say that you also claimed the new ground would increase crowds too, yet it obviously hasn't worked.

I think you'd probably be wiser going the Widnes route of steady improvement, but I suppose its the Doctor's prerogative to wave his wad about??.....Personally, I think your best bet would be to get a big name coach and build from there - I think a top class coach would attract the players as much as earning big cash in front of an empty ground would.

Thanks for the offer of your services Tony I'm sure they will put your cv on file.

"I think you'd probably be wiser going the Widnes route of steady improvement"

EDIT TO

"I think you'd probably be wiser going the Warrington route of steady purchasing"

a couple more big names in the mix... www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sp ... d-bid.html

a couple more big names in the mix... www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sp ... d-bid.html

Some serious names being thrown around atm.

Soward is OOC at the end of the year and his agent has apparently been touting him around SL Clubs. Think he was linked to Wigan last year. Carney is another troubled sort who might fancy a change of scenery. Who knows.

As for Hanson, he grew up inside the Willows and would be a cracking signing.

Seems like every man and his dog is being linked to us. Exciting stuff.

Todd Carney, Jamie Soward! I think it's common knowledge that I'm a big fan of the NRL and trust me, disregarding the legitimacy of the Sun's claims, this does funny things to me...

Soward was mentioned at FR last night if I heard the big man correctly. We also made an enquiry about Ben Barba according to Farish.

Oh stop it Martin, you're just teasing me now.



Just to add, Soward fell out of favour a tad last season in what was the post-Wayne Bennett era at St George. He got dropped a couple of times due to poor form. However, he's still a fantastic, free-running stand off who would tear relatively slow defenses to pieces over here.

Todd Carney, a bit hot at the moment. As a likely state of origin player for the foreseeable future, it's unlikely he'll leave Cronulla.

Barba - No chance, he'll take his time to sort his problems out and be back withb the dogs.
Carney - Unlikely, Cronulla want to keep him, a couple of clubs also interested in the NRL
Soward - Good chance, OOC, was looking to come over to SL last year, would be a good SL HB, but he's a wan ker

How about Ed Farish as CEO (Former finance director for Australia NRL, and CFO of Gold Coast Titans), Graham Lowe as Director (Prolific club coach both in UK and Australia, and SOO coach / club administrator) and Andrew Chalmers as Director (Former Chairman of NZ Rugby League). Not a bad head table, really: I think these will have the clout to bring a few top-class players in, as the respect they have in the game is strong.

This is what most people are missing, and is the most impressive thing that Koukash has done. He's been brilliant at keeping us in the press with his plans, but the fact is that he has made the key appointments at a director level to hopefully move us forward. Fans can laugh at our deisre to buy big names, but the appointments that he has made cannot be faulted.

what will happen to sneyd and theo though with all the half backs we are being linked with ?

We could put them out on loan to Warrington, they seem to have a bit of a fetish for our halfbacks.