[url=http://www.reds.co.uk/rugby-news/jordan-james-next-to-join-redsJordan James Signs[/url.

Good in defence but not as strong in meters, Also confirmation of the Joel Moon singing, Future looks bright.

I thought Moon was a player not a singer!

haha, nice spot!

Jordan James is an older version of Sidlow - can't understand why we would sign him - Championship looks more his level but he can by all means prove me wrong - don't remember him playing regularly when Crusaders were at full strength?

I'm hoping this signing is just a cheap option to bolster the squad and that he won't be getting much game time unless injuries hit us. The pack is looking really week IMO, its early days so I'll reserve judgement and see who else we bring in.

he scores against us everytime!

Says more about us than James...............

This signing smacks of 'cheap and available'. I'm with Fred the SCR who thinks he is simply an older version of Sidlow. I sincerely hope I'm proved wrong, but when I've witnessed our pack dominated season after season, the loss of Cashmere against the recruitment of James and Gledhill looks to make us even weaker for next season. Unless we come up with a MAJOR signing in the pack between now and the start of next season, I'm already fearing the worst.

As for Moon, I don't know enough about him to comment, but we have been crying out for some class in the Centre position and I hope he can 'do the business'. Saying that, it's up front where we need to strengthen. If we fail to bring in another proven prop, it places an awful lot of pressure on Matt to raise the performances of the players we already have.

Jewitt, Boyle, Sidlow, Neal have been 'promising' and Feka a 'has been' for most games this season. Behind them, we have Adamson and Anderson two others classisfied as 'promising and 'has been'. For the last two games Mark Henry has been in the pack and improved it, which illustrates my point.

We have Two decent hookers and Stephen Wilde for next season who can compete against the best. I'm afraid that's not going to be enough.

Would LOVE to be proved wrong!

I pretty much agree with what everybody has already said and shall wait to see how he performs in a Reds shirt prior to making any judgement on the guy.

I also have every faith in Matt Parrish's decisions as head coach and trust his judgement which will be good enough for me.

hmmm,
Our recruitment policy so far reminds me of the John Harvey years ' Jim Smith , Craig Makin, types' .
we had some real duffers , however we also got some pretty creditable performers ( Darren Brown , Kris Tassell etc ). so lets give him he benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise.
Salford will be Gloucester born James 7th Club, Played 15 times for Crusaders this season mainly at interchange prop.
maybe with a good pre-season we will have inherited a useful addition to our squad . remember he featured heavily in the 2010 Brian Noble side that reached a play off position .

Jordan James was a decent player for us, Swinton lions but that was obviously at Championship 1 level and he was around 26 then.Very good defender but as someone pointed out not strong at making yards.

It doesn't make sense Salford signing him if there ambition is a strong young side to get them out of the bottom tier of Super league.

Yep Cashmere & Ratchford out; Moon & James in. I'm booking my Wembley hotel today.

Massive signing for the club!!!!!....funny how parish said a few weeks ago he wasnt interested in any crusaders players!!!! perhaps ric flare likes the look of him?.....typical salford....any half decent players crusaders had were soon snapped up,,,and good old salford give a home to the leftovers that knowone else wants!!

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Jordan will prove to be a valuable signing!! Strong in deffence in the middle of the pitch is EXACTLY what you are lacking at the moment, and atleast he cant take a flat ball to the line at speed!!

Let him play before judging him, think hes played in all 8 of the Crusaders last 8 matches at starting prop not bad considering all your opinions of him on here

I agree with you as I have also previousley said I shall wait to see how he performs in a Reds shirt prior to making any judgment. I think our fans views are that he doesnt seem to be the high calliber of player we are expecting to sign to fill big Ray's boots.

You can never have too many work horse's!!

the men who do the donkeyb work, the hard ball carries the 3rd n 4th man in secure tacklers

Fans can feel underwhelmed by signings. That's fine. But we should not cast judgement on someone until they actually play for us. Players can be invigorated by a Club switch. Good players in one side may become mediocre in another and mediocre players can shine and become good players in others.

Pre-judgement is a human failing. Let JJ's performances dictate how you feel.

Listening to Matt during the recent interview, he sees JJ "toughening up" the defence and appears to rate him as a professional pretty highly.

Like my lad says: a switch of clubs can alter a lot of things for a player. If he's good enough for Matt, he's good enough for me.

Did he used to work on the doors at the bluebell?

I'm really hoping the signings of Gledhill and James are more, Finnigan and Wilshire, than Jim Smith and Makin.

If Sidlow can't reach his potential, still think we need to sign a better quality prop.

Matt Parish might get the best out of him its happened before.

You can't polish a Turd , but you can roll it in glitter ...



smacks of a Harrison era ' pet project ' signing

Last pre season it was all ' top 8 ' we're going to sign Sinfield & Morley Etc, to the point where performances were never going to meet the hysteria.

low key signings could work in the new coach's favour;- everyone will write us off and better than average performances will add to the Parish myth like status,

However JJ like signings arn't going to make pre season ticket sales fly.

He sure did.