He looks like a little lad on a site seeing tour

He looks like a seal pup

Perhaps after a culling session

The 'baby faced assassin' is home.

I don't think we will get that lucky and that could be one of our drawbacks next season, but hopefully we will see a much fitter Feka, a much more fired up and enthused Fielden, a more experienced and improved Paul Prescott & Eamon O'carroll and Andy Coley to follow on from his good form last season.

All realistic IMO.

MM stated in an interview a few week back that they where looking at possibley signing 2 players one was a current SL player (obviously Deacon) and t'other was an NRL player, if true maybe we could be looking at a forward that was involved in the 4 nations, hopefully it will be a big NZ'r

(could of been IL who mentioned it)

What interview was that?

Can't remember, it was from a link someone posted in the rumours thread

If Prescott keeps progressing as I think he will and Fielden and Feka work their backsides off for new contracts as I expect them to I still think we'll go pretty well.

One more aggressive prop forward would really give us some good balance though.

I remember reading something like that. I'm sure it was on Wigantoday.

If we bring another prop in, I'd hope/expect O'Carroll to join Ben Davies in going out on loan.

Has O'Carroll ever had a full, consistent season of Super League without getting injured or being dropped?

Not thrilled about this myself another 'quick fix'

We should be looking forward to the future not signing 30 year old players

Not sure, i thought it might have been in the Sydney Sun Herald or League HQ for some reason

So I imagine he will not be earning too much in 2010, followed by a rather large increment for 2011 and 2012....

Against the spirit of the cap - almost certainly!

Good work IL. I like the commitment to developing local coaching talent as well as playing talent.

Part of this deal is 'looking to the future' with his coaching role for 2011 onwards.

It could never be described as a quick fix when the main aim of signing the lad is in the hope that he could go on and become a top class coach.

It's a long term investment with the short term benefit that he can cover as a player for the team.

Super business.

Read the full press release - he is being brought on board for his future coaching potential rather than just a quick fix.

EDIT** Sorry the previous two posts beat me to it

And what does deacon bring that any other coach cant?

So lets see who gets dropped sam,piggy or mcilorum cause one of them will

I'm sure IL knows about his coaching potential far more than any of us do

Brian Noble would have worked with him for years too so may well have recommended him before he left.

Why waste money on the cap?

Why not bring a coach up who has some expeience in the roll?

We all have diffrent opinions i think this is a shocking move by us

Specialist halfback coach and kicking coach. His greatest strengths - being a master of organising a team around the park - is Leuluai's and Tomkins' drawback.

The whole arrangement is from a coaching prospective rather than a playing one. He adds some depth for a year as Tomkins and Leuluai might have to go on international duty (not to mention injuries) plus Joe Mellor, Sam Tomkins and Thomas Leuluai can learn from one of the best in Super League in regards to kicking and organising a team. Plus he is a very handy goal kicker as well, something Pat Richards had a poor season with IMO!

Time will tell I suppose.

But hopefully he won't take up too much room on the cap - hopefully we'll be paying him far more when he is a full time coach compared to 2010 when he counts on the playing staff.

Why? He is here more as a coach than a player.

Surely the depth we now have should be applauded? Before if Riddell (which was a common occurence last season) or Mike McIlorum were out of form we would have no-one else to play in that position. Now there is more pressure for them to play better.

We have seen the juggling about we have to do when McIlorum got injured - if that occurs we can move to Deacon to 7, Tomkins to six and Leuluai to nine. We have seen the result of losing Tomkins to international duty (Celtic Crusaders away) and injuries (Huddersfield away) we now have cover in Paul Deacon.

A positive move by the club.

We have got bigger problems than or 6&7's kicking game

We sign gleeson now we go sign another halfback when we really need some bulk in our pack if we do sign a prop imo i think we could have used this to sign another one

It's hard to judge what he's being paid but I can't see it being a fortune. He's still a decent player who imo will be acting as cover and not be starting every week.

As for his credentials as a coach the club and people within the game must know something about him as a person and an influence around the place. He's well respected at Bradford and has been a very loyal player for them for 12 years. He's also a leader and you can never have too many of those.

He is inexperienced as a coach(as inexperienced as you can get) but the club have stated they'll be following the Melbourne model of a coaching set up and thats giving a young coach his first chance as a head coach and then him hand picking young,up and coming assistants to learn under him.

It's worked ok for them!