I hope he has a grear season and then we let him go and get someone on who wants to play for the club and not a contract

There isn't many who play for pride in the shirt anymore. RL is a short career and money more than often rules over anything. I'll take Patrick playing for a contract if it meant we won something.

I do fear us to be short on the second row though unless somebody comes through who isn't expected. Roberts should get a chance but would still like to see a second rower with experience playing at a high level signed. Even just a squad player.

You are bang right there but IMO that is more to do with a clubs culture in keeping players happy in their working environment rather than chasing the bigger salary elsewhere and being enticed by the lure of the Koukash dream
I know you've heard it all before but the Rhinos have kept so many players over the years because they were happy to be playing where they were happy
Sir Kev mentioned this in one of his GF winning speeches when he said that they could have all earned a few more quid elsewhere

The Giants have got so much going for them if they control and manage it right, If the players buy into it as a collective group then the rewards will certainly come to those that decide to stay on the ride rather than those that decide to jump off at the first opportunity of more money elsewhere

Lee Smith is on trial at Hull FC, worth a punt as cover at the right price? Plus he's won some big games which is what we need...

No.

+1

We either give youth a chance or add some quality.
Smith is not a centre or a second row which is where we may struggle.

There seems to be a few very good NRL centres up for grabs at the moment, whether we could land them is another question, but at the moment there are James Roberts, Peter Hiku and Tim Lafai all looking for clubs, hope some enquiries are being drafted.

Thought some announcements would have been made by now in all honesty with regards to the squad, ferres etc.

A top quality centre would be great as currently i don't think Connor is good enough as first choice.
That would allow Wardle to move to second row and along with Lawrence,Taai,Patrick and Roberts we should have enough cover in this area.
I would also expect Hinchcliffe is an 80 minute player so during games if Robinson or Leeming come on from the bench he could move into the back row for this part of the game.

Pomeroy also without a club...

looks like hinchcliffe will be given the number 9 shirt and playing hooker for next season, good news

ferres given the number 11 squad number for 2016.

ferres has to have a sq. the legal in and out. the key is who can we get to replace him the squad even with ferres looks light in the back row and backs

yeh does look abit light

we are relying alot on hinchcliffe this year i think

some of the youngsters are going to have to step up too i feel which is no bad thing. roberts could be the one

wardles brother even brought in we are that light in the backs

huby broken his wrist



out for first 6 weeks of sl season

rapira, crabtree, smith with maybe taai filling in at prop now? anderson might go with josh johnson too

You would think we might be trying to bring someone else in now, second rower perhaps, otherwise we will be expecting BIG seasons from one or two of the young forwards.

Huby. broken wrist or is it hand.? What is it Coach Anderson and how did it happen????????
Ferres saga???? Going to be lightweight thinks.

I'm really worried about our strength in depth particularly now Huby's out for 6 weeks.
A lot will depend on Rapira and his fitness and I wouldn't want to put my mortgage on Rapira's fitness, I'm afraid.
Suspect the club are happy to take Ferres' contract off the cap as - unfortunately, as usual, season ticket sales have been nothing to write home about and we're skint.
Not all that optimistic for the season (can you tell?)

Oh, and whilst I'm on my high-horse, In my opinion, once again the club (Thewlis) has been appalling in it's communication with the fans since the end of last season which does nothing whatsoever to foster any spirit of 'togetherness'.

I've been of the quiet opinion for a while that Thewlis is the weak link in the giants chain

I wasn't optimistic last season either, but I'll wait to see how we run before I make judgement

think last season alot were thinking we werent even going to make the top 8
but they surprised us and may very well do so again!
when you have danny brough in your team there is always a chance!

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.