Brough can't work miracles. If the pack gets Hammered, He will as well, more often than not.

Hope Hinchcliffe turns out to be as good a buy Hogson did.

Hinchcliffe is going to be very good for us, one of our best overseas in fact. Him and Rapira are world cup and grand final winners, they know what it takes, providing we can play as consistent as we did when we won the LLS, those two may just be the difference between us and a tin pot.

I saw us play well half dozen times last season, thats it, we were missing a bit of guile at times, hinchcliffe will bring that, you're talking about a guy only kept out of 9 jersey at a grand final winning team by some average player that goes by the name of Cameron Smith.

surely we cant get off to a worse start than last season with 3 losses

hope for 2 wins from the first 3 games this time round that would be good, saints away, wigan home and widnes home (that would be the banker)

interesting comments in the yorkshire poset

patrick going to play at loose forward for us this season....

taai other side in 2nd row, not sure about who else in 2nd row..maybe wardle if they decide to move him from centre but that would mean connor at centre and not happy with his defence in that position.

roberts maybe the man to replace ferres

lawrence off the bench

Play Lawrence at second row. He will do a solid a job as Hughes did last season. He can play 80 mins with a few more tackles and although we've not seen much of it we know he can pass!

Will work no doubt Jools but I feel that Bruno has been bulked up and has lost quite a bit of speed.Maybe they will have been working on this in pre season.

taai - lawrence
patrick

who off the bench... roberts?

looks weaker than previous seasons does our second row/loose combinations.

All because a fella couldn't keep it in his pants!
With huby out too taai may be needed up front!
Connor is really going to have to step up this season iMO.
As for off the bench- may be we won't need anyone- Hinchcliffe can easily play 80- start at 9 then switch to LF?

i think anderson will go with the youngsters and see how we get on till huby is back

at prop mason/johnson/dickinson can step up

2nd row hard to know if he will opt for wardle to go in the second row again

roberts will def get a chance i feel , upto him to take it

Josh Jones coming back to SL after a brief spell in RU. I'd be surprised if we weren't interested, will have a relationship with Balloo as well.

We've ruled it out according to Totalrl. But theres the possibility of Jamie Buhrer allegedly www.loverugbyleague.com/news_205 ... ip-18.html

We've ruled it out according to Totalrl. But theres the possibility of Jamie Buhrer allegedly www.loverugbyleague.com/news_205 ... ip-18.html

Don't know much about him but sounds to have pedigree and has won things. Coming back from a knee recon so might be a gamble.

would think we would be interested in jones being young, british and we have links with saints with purtill/anderson , cany say i know much about him though, cant look good for connor at centre if we brought jones in.

Regardless we need the depth and the competition. Perhaps connor won't be long term centre?

www.totalrl.com/josh-jones-to-re ... by-league/ not for us.

www.totalrl.com/josh-jones-to-re ... by-league/ not for us.

22 old utility player is just what we need at this moment in time

brough interview on total rugby we need a couple of new player not happy ferris sold to leeds his tone not a happy man

yeh brough talking top 8, anderson talking top 4

think we all agree we are abit light in the sqaud this year , we will just have to be patient and hope some youngsters surprise us when they get their chance like simpson did last season

I got the impression it was ferres he wasn't happy with not the selling of him....

jools is not happy with him going to leeds making them a lot stronger side

Has anyone got a link to the interview please?

just google total rugby league, danny brough it will come up

Nice one ta

Brough not happy it seems. Does not think the squad strong enough it seems. As the Captain it is not the message he should be sending. Time will tell if his pessimism will be proved to be true. Would help if players would stop punching walls ! Can't wait till we play Rhinos.

think we could maybe do with a good back up back,maybe Hallett could be that man? and possibly a good ball playing 13.
but at the moment the squad looks OK,
potentially
FULLBACK
Grix,Simpson,Murphy,Cudjoe, Connor
WINGERS
Jerry, Murphy, Simpson, Cudjoe, Connor
CENTRES
Wardle, Cudjoe, Murphy,Connor
HALF-BACKS
Brough, Ellis, Robinson, k.Wood
HOOKER
Hinchliffe, Robinson, Leeming, k.Wood, Ellis
PROPS
Huby, Rapira Crabtree, Ta'ai, Smith, Patrick, J.Johnson,Mason,Dickinson,M.Wood
BACK ROWERS
Ta'ai,Smith, Lawrence,Patrick, Wardle, Roberts, L.Johnson,