[quote="Kirmudgeonlyisback":1dfply4p]Guess time will tell but great replacement for hood. We have a three quota players on one year deals so guess we can create space[/quote:1dfply4p] Who are the 3? Walmsley Faatili and Atoni? Could be any of those 3 to be fair.

I stand corrected my memory playing tricks on me.

Yep, just means we have players playing for something and a point to prove, will only help us further. Makes a change we are doing business early rather than waiting for the scraps when everyone has already done their business

[quote="Scarlet Pimpernell":m9nwfqng]I thought Lino’s contract ends this season. I recall that Atoni improved greatly when the work was shared with DF and good props are hard to come by.[/quote:m9nwfqng] Correct - Atoni improved massively when DF joined him. He has all the ability and I'm confident he will do tbe business now there are quality props in depth.

[quote="1315trinity":2f2sb4bp]Correct - Atoni improved massively when DF joined him. He has all the ability and I'm confident he will do tbe business now there are quality props in depth.[/quote:2f2sb4bp] He did improve for last 1/3 of season and I’m hoping to see that continue.

The situation regarding Walmsley is a bit puzzling to me. If he stayed fit last season he'd have smashed the tries in a season record. I'm confident he would have scored all those tries that Olpherts scored when he lost his place to him through injury. That's taking nothing away from Olpherts who I thought was unlucky not to get another contract. I think Walmsley may be the one to go, especially as we have Russell and the young kid from HKR- but it will be through no fault of his own - he's done everything asked of him and I rate him quite highly. For me he's starting winger with Tom but we'll see how it goes I reckon.