Hope he can get over his injury problems, seems to have been nothing but professional in his time here, all the best to him wherever he goes

Salford bound

To replace Croft I assume

Good luck to him

Great move that. If I could pick a coach to help him regain his confidence it would be Rowley and Salford have rebuilt a few players in this last 4 or 5 years.

Hope it works out for him.

Wigan lad, relationship with Wane, we’ve got boat loads of cash.



Hahah not going to happen but funny that they are on strings at the minute

Just the start of big investment into the women’s team.

I'd love to see it, but there's no way it's going to happen. I suppose, just conceivably if the so-called Farrell deal turns out to be nothing, but if OF does come, then there'd be no room on the cap, not without further losses, and we don't want those ... everything's neatly balanced at the mo.

Personally, if the idea of the OF deal is true, I hope the club are treating that pot of money as a separate one to anything else.

On the playing side of things and outside of the marquee rule, it's a massive opportunity for Danson to not only flex his cash, but gain a massive advantage. Getting talent from outside of the sport is an avenue that no other club have either really explored, or have the funds to exploit properly. Make no mistake about it, there's some serious talent in RU and if we can leverage that, outside of the cap - then it's a win win.

Absolutely, whether there is anything in the Owen Farrell deal or not the sport in this country should be looking to RU in Wales and England for talent. The big wages are just not going to be on offer as widely as before in the other code and for players who can see that their international ambitions are not going to be realised, jumping ship to RL should be a realistic back up option.

We should keep an eye on KPP's "little" brother at Saracens!

Thornley to Wakey confirmed

If he stays fit he will absolutely dominate the Championship.

Good luck to him. It’s a shame his body has let him down in this second spell because I thought there were some really good signs there when he got on the field. He was an absolute handful in quite a few games. Fingers crossed he stays fit at Wakey and if so, he’ll go well for them.

Isnt it his 3rd spell? I cant keep track

That’s true, I think it is. Wigan, Union, Wigan, a few clubs and then Wigan again and now he gets to play in front of the Benidorm flats. He’s hit the jackpot!

Hes certainly been around. Didnt he go to Catalans at some point?

Good luck to him though

Yeah and HKR. Shame he ever bothered with that Union move, as that probably set him back a bit.

Cracking lad Iain. I hope he does well at Wakefield.

I noticed this at old Trafford (didn’t come across on the tele) but Miski was hurt badly in the second.

Was hobbling around, Isa keep talking to him to make sure he was fine, King dropped back for a few kicks.

Some effort to get through the game.

Been told unfortunately he needs a op and will miss the start of the season.

Immediate chance for Eckersley?

The Union move definitely did. Good for the bank balance but less so for his development (that’s not a pop at Thornley - we make the best decisions for our family and I respect that). Madge was furious and I think he made some remarks in the press after he’d gone that showed that.

Thornley has had a good career but I always felt he was destined for more. Never placed for England etc.. He was destroying youth teams at centre playing for our academy and he needed to be pushed earlier to play against players his size so he could develop further and not just rely on his size advantage. An advantage he wouldn’t have when he joined the first team. As a country we don’t seem to be able to produce top class centres. Thornley had the potential to be a top class centre.

At one point before he moved to Union Brisbane Broncos were interested in taking him. Would have loved to have seen how he would have turned out there.

We can add him to the list of Union casualties.

Henry Paul, Iestyn Harris, Joel Tomkins. None of them came back the forces they'd once (or could have) been.

Not great for Miski.

Obvious thing to say, but a good pre season really sets a player up right for the whole season. Was it Byrne who was injured last year? It took him a while to get up to speed and then he pulled up injured after that. French missed a pre season a while back and suffered a big injury a few games into the season etc.

Like you said however, it opens the doors for others - much in the same way that Miski has benefited from previously. I'd expect Eckersley, Douglass and even Hampshire to be training the house down over the next 3/4 months.

Could be wrong but I think Miski got injured early in the game rather than the second half, and managed to get through it. That's not to say he was 100% but I'd hope/assume it's not that bad an injury if he played through the majority of the game with it.

Still hoping we (Hull FC) will try and Sign Joe Shorrocks. I'm guessing with the strength of your pack for next season then his game time will be limited.

In theory we're not ridiculously well stocked at second row. We're losing KPP and Farrell turns 34 next year.

That said, he's still behind Faz, Walters, Isa and Nsemba, so it makes sense for him to move on now for the sake of his own career.

Potentially Isa's last season with us in 2024 plus who knows how long Faz will go. Take those two out and we look short if injuries occur.