Total RL and tomorrow's League Express saying that we are close to signing him for next year. He looked a handful last year.

I'd be very happy with this, i was hoping we'd sign him when London were relegated. Puts in really good minutes, hits hard and is defensively sound. And he's still only about 20 years old. Yeah this would be a very positive step towards a long term prop for me

I'm surprised that he wasn't signed by a SL club as soon as London got relegated.

Would be a very smart signing

Great signing if true. Loads of potential and British.

Don't know much about him to be honest, I guess he's someone to provide cover to the first team squad with a view to breaking into a place in the 17? Can't find any stats on him with regards size and only a short video of him smashing a Hull KR player from the kick off last year. Doesn't look small though.

Whatever happened to Leiws Bienek from London? After watching his youtube clips I remember being disappointed when we missed out on him and he went to Hull FC, but doesn't seem to have done much since...

If we Did sign butler he'd play every week off the bench for me ahead of Sita, if we've signed him we've a raw quality forward.
Bienek is still at Hull i think but with the pack they have i can't see him getting much game time barring injuries. He's a massive lad with shed loads of potential. I think he was on loan to a championship club last year, could be wrong on that though?

Bienek was on loan at (my club) Doncaster briefly in 2018, Batley in 2019 and has again gone out on loan for 2020, this time to Leigh.

I'd also have to do some checking, as far as i can recall from last year he wasn't a big forward, more joe philbin than carvell, i stand to be corrected on that though.

There's a picture of him lining up with Toby King on his twitter feed, he looks at least as tall as King and he's 6ft 2. Butler looks 6ft 3 ish to me...

How did he do?

Quote ="Alffi_7"There's a picture of him lining up with Toby King on his twitter feed, he looks at least as tall as King and he's 6ft 2. Butler looks 6ft 3 ish to me...'" i'll take my comments back i think i was thinking of Gee or yates, who were a bit more on the davis size. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Tv1O8URxxU number 23

Quote ="Alffi_7"There's a picture of him lining up with Toby King on his twitter feed, he looks at least as tall as King and he's 6ft 2. Butler looks 6ft 3 ish to me...'" i'll take my comments back i think i was thinking of Gee or yates, who were a bit more on the davis size. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Tv1O8URxxU number 23

He (Lewis Bienek) looked like he would do a job at Championship level but would need to improve quite a bit to figure on a regular basis in Super League. It wasn't the biggest surprise to see subsequent loans to Championship clubs.

Confused, who are we signing, Butler or Bienek?
Both, I have to admit, are under my radar as I cannot recall either of them.

Butler, according to League Express.

Thanks, MKK. I note that he's had game time at London, before Covid19 interrupted most facets of our existence.

Sorry that’s my fault. The potential signing of a London prop for next year (Butler) reminded me of a year or two ago of missing out of signing another London prop (Bienek) who looked a beast on his you tube video. By all accounts Bienek hasn’t progressed well with the step up to SL.

No problem. If Bienek was a good prospect a couple of seasons ago, then he hasn't managed to realise that potential.

2 pages into this thread and RD hasn't commented yet on how we should be signing battye and not butler. He will not be happy!!

I don't think i have said this about Warrington for a long time but that is a smart signing. He looks to have bags of potential. Was he the local London lad signed from union as a youngster? He looked very good in SL though and is certainly a raw talent. Luke Yates was their star man though and he has struggled at Salford.

From Rochester, Kent. Came through the juniors at Medway Dragons (Amateur RL) before joining London Broncos Academy. Made his first team debut for the Broncos in 2018 aged 19 and has recently turned 22.

Hope he signs, will give extra interest for locals in Market Inn Sandwich having a Kentish lad playing for us, seeing as they are an unofficial support venue for the mighty WIRE. Before lock down a few more people were coming to watch us each game and getting interesting in rugby league in general.

Good work spreading the gospel, SW.

I’d be very happy with this signing. He looks like a handful and still only young with time to develop he does tick a few boxes. We are in desperate need of another big mobile front rower, we are already light in that department and question marks still remain over Latu/Kibula. Really hope we can pull this one off as oppose to being just another rumour.

Sitaleki just posted a picture on Instagram of him, Latu, BMM and Bodene Thompson. Latu looks to be in good shape, he's definately lost some timber since when i saw him when he first came over so hopefully he's taken his fitness seriously whilst in Quarantine and wants to hit the ground running hard

This could be an important bit of business. The market for props is not very deep so we need to try to discover a raw talent like when we got Hill from Leigh. I'd rather us focus on guys like this than be held to ransom by the agents of average props with SL experience taking advantage of the lack of alternatives. The potential upside for Butler is high.