Looks like according to moley on twitter that Brett hodgson is joining!usually bang on the money with what he says!thoughts?not bad for a season or to old?

Hope I'm wrong but I think it might be a veteran too far

Very underwhelmed.

With Sa'u, Puletua, Smith, Rapira and supposedly Chase signed, isn't that it as far as we're concerned for quota/non-federation players?

Stanley Gene anyone?

Hodgson has been here since 1946 so probably doesn't count.

Be brilliant to have a decent goal kicker in the squad perhaps?

Is it just me who feels that he'd be a good signing for a year then? Watched him plenty on TV this year & never thought he's looked past it. Still I suppose that being a regular for the team that'll finish 2nd in the league, reached the CC semi final & will possibly be contesting the GF isn't good enough to qualify you to play for Salford these days

Cracking signing for a year as long as the fire is still burning. Most Warrigton fans will tell you they'd rather keep him for another 12 months.

Never too late to talk Steve Menzies out of retirement eh.

I've heard Brett Hodgson's off to Bradford.

So do we assume that Billy Slater's not off contract until 2015 and this is a stop gap?

Correct, he's a good signing.

Hodgson is still one of Warrington's best players, he is still very fit and he makes good decisions on the field, he positions himself well, comes in to the attack at the right time to be a threat, good goalkicker, he's old but still probably will be one of the top 2/3 fullbacks in SL next year.

Also I have to say with Hodgson on pound for pound toughness he is up with the likes of Dean Bell.

Aren't we supposed to have signed Jake Mullaney from Parramatta? If so, we couldn't sign Hodgson because that would leave us with too many 'non-federation trained' players wouldn't it?

All will be revealed on Thursday.

Assuming that Chase is (a) signed, and (b) non-federation (regardless of citizenship) then him, Smith, Puletua, Sa'u and Rapira fill our non-Fed quota, so unless there's a get out for Chase we're not signing either of the above.

Which would leave us without a full-back (other than Niall Evalds). I guess we'll just have to wait until Thursday and see how everything falls into place.

Maybe Chase comes off the list if he takes Citizenship in the off-season?

I thought that too, how stupid is it that an English national and english international rugby player would count on an restriction of foreigners list.

It's not technically a "foreigners" list any more though - it's a list of people who were schooled in Rugby League outside the UK. You can change citizenship, you can get various passports based on your family tree, but you can't change where you developed as a player. Jack Reed at Brisbane for example - born in England - but played all his RL overseas, so would be non-fed.

That said, this is RL and goalposts have a habit of moving - so we'll see.

I'm guessing Jordan Davies won't count as 'non-Fed' trained, but I'm not really sure how these rules work.

Could he some way count as ' club trained'?

If he doesn't we are going to find it hard to get the number of 'non -fed' trained players down to the twelve that will be needed, if we are going to get eight 'club trained' in the top 25 on the salary cap.

Maybe this is where the rumours about wanting to unload Jewitt are coming from.

I would of thought that Hodgson would be off the oversees quota after playing his first game for Huddersfield in 2009. I was under the impression that after five years a player didn't count on the quota .correct me if I am wrong.

Your wrong. That rule went years ago. It's players who came over before 2008 who get exemptions now.

Hodgson told Wire players on Saturday that he has signed for Salford. (Kit man was the `spy`)

Well we have 6 Non Fed already so are we perming? Not a signing I would have made with Mullaney coming too & probably not old enough for Nobby at 36 in 2014.

Bit of a strange one for me seeing as we have signed Mullaney. A decent loose forward and winger would be where id be looking to strengthen unless Noble is planning playing Mullaney on the wing and gaining a years experience off Hodgson.