With only Hardaker confirmed next year and an exodus from the squad taking place, are there certain players you would like to see come in?

I think we need a top class centre as Sarg has been well off the pace
2-3 additions in the pack
New scrum half
Potentially new stand off ( if the Rumours about Williams to Catalan are to be believed)

Hardaker is obviously confirmed..Greenwood will be like a new signing still..Manfredi will feel like a new signing

I feel like we need much more grunt in the pack but with a good skill set to open that second phase of play on contact?

Thoughts...ideas...dream players?

Answers on a post card

desperate for a centre

First call, recruit a new coach so he can input on the players he wants.

100%

I think over the last few years we've tended to exaggerate how much we've been short there. Sarge last time round was pretty good, Gelling & Gildart were a good partnership in his absence & Bateman has always been a very capable stand in.

Completely different picture now. Sarge hasn't got going & Bateman (probably) going means we're effectively down a top class forward AND a centre. I'm not too disappointed that we didn't bring Gelling back, but thinking about how short we'll be next year and the lack of an obvious or available replacement, we probably could've done a lot worse.

I’d be looking to bring in Bousquet, Charlie Gubb and a good centre, Junior Sau maybe?

For me you can put it into two different sub sections;

Absolute Necessities
New #7
[iPowell just doesn’t cut it as a scrum half. He lacks creativity, speed and general game awareness and is utterly wasted. He might go well for a lower SL club at #7 but certainly not one wanting to challenge consistently. Some might say Woods but as well as he’s done recently I’ve re watched the Warrington game and I’m not convinced he is a long term prospect. Having said that a new coach and new tactics for Woods may prove me wrong.[/i

Centre
[iSarginson was a complete waste of cap space and money to put it brutally. Bateman, as good as he has been at centre is a much better back rower and putting him there alongside Greenwood and Hamlin/SOL at #13 is a formidable back row IMHO. We need a right centre that can create chances for his winger and defend well. Sarginson offers neither.[/i

Would be nice
Prop
[iIt feels a bit strange saying this after his performance v Warrington but I feel we’ve seen the best days of Flower. He just hasn’t been the same player since the Grand Final incident and doesn’t seem to make the hard yards he used to. Barring the Grand Final incident the same could be said for Tony Clubb, maybe it’s due to the way SW has them playing but I like seeing props who run the ball in as hard as they can and make yards on each drive being equally brutal in defence. I just don’t see Clubb & Flower offering that any longer. We’ve got young props coming though along with the emergence of Hamlin/Navarette (the former of which I see making the transition to #13) and we need an experience prop in there. I wouldn’t mind seeing Kopzcak or Casty (as being rumoured) in there.[/i

Hooker
[iCan we mess Powell about again by shifting him back to hooker? I’m not sure. TL has been very good and consistent this year but the rumour is that he is also off. With Ganson seemingly not getting a look in I think this is an area we may need to look at. Oh how I long for Micky Mac to be back[/i

Other than that I think we’re looking good for next season squadwise. Strength in depth and most areas covered as well for injuries.

Playing recruitment aside; it’s becoming more and more important our new coach is announced sooner rather than later. Surely it’s affecting our own recruitment, I mean who wants to sign for a club with no announced coach? Effectively a rudderless ship come October. It doesn’t make for an attractive proposition and is probably why Catalans are chancing their arm with Williams.

It’s about priorities.

1 - The right coach
2 - scrum half
3 - Centre
4 - prop

1. Lam
2. Drinkwater
3. Sau
4. Bousquet

Rumour on the other board that Lam will be the new coach.
I really do hope not.

Why FT? I don’t know much about him as a coach.

Hope Adrian can bring his son with him, Lachlan looks a cracking little player

sau is a left centre

saw him on "the NRL rookie" some techniques looked unorthadox, especially putting players submersed in cages with the tide coming in, might be there a while if they do that at Southport.

Radford was asked last night on a radio interview if there was any truth in the rumour that Sneyd may be going to Wigan. He said "he might be going to Wigan, but only for a weekend away"

So that one is closed

I expect Dave Furner will be the Wigan coach next year.

League Express confirming Bateman to Canberra on a 3yr deal. Expected but it represent a huge loss in addition to our other departures.

Thankfully I believe Hamlin will step into Bateman’s shoes and role for however long we have him for.

Bumps up the need for a genuine right centre even more then.

I'm still hoping on hope that he doesn't go. He will leave *such* big boots to fill if he does. It hardly seems fair at this stage of his career to load Hamlin with that level of expectation.

And i still don't see where Bateman would play at the Canberra: Joey Leilua has just signed a two year to renew at right centre, club captain Croker is at left centre, and they have Whitehead and Papalii in the second row. I can't see JB displacing any of those four.

Until the club confirm it I’ll cling on to the hope he’ll stay. Do you have the link from League Express please? I can’t find it.

Read it in Monday’s edition of the paper mate, I haven’t seen any links for the story online.

Ha, modern life eh? I’ve not read a paper for years mate, I tend just to read online articles these days!

Thought I’d roll back the years and get a feel for paper again. I might even use it to wrap fish and chips in later

If the rumour I’ve heard is true, then I wouldn’t get excited about any new ‘glamour signings’ coming in next year. Apparently a big reason why Wane has jacked it in, he asked if the money recouped from all our departures would be put back into the team, was told no and to bring youth through instead.

Haven’t read much on here in a while so not sure if anyone has hear similar?

Some of us older one's used it for something else.



Oh, and you had to learn to whistle too.