1 Jowitt
2 Johnstone
3 Tupou
4 Lyne
5 Kay
6 Miller
7 Lino
8 Fifita
9 K Wood
10 Arona
11 Ashurst
12 Tanginoa
13 Westerman
14 Pitts
15 Gigot
16 Batchelor
17 Green
18 Senior
19 Crowther
20 Arundel
21 Walker
22 Tangata
23 J wood
24 Croft
25 B Walker
26 Aydin
27 Kershaw
29 Hampshire
31Bailey
32 Greensmith
33 Bowes
34Windrow
25

Where is number 28, and 30?

Any news on the awards yet.

Arona coaches player of the year
tanginoa man of steel, fans and players player of the year
Harry Bowes rising star

Vacant as far as I can see

It's early days, but we're looking low on quality and quantity at the moment. Some work to do on recruitment before the season starts.

How the hell are we short of ‘quantity’? 32 players will be far more then most squads in 2021

2 decent props and a winger and it’s a good squad!

I hope you don’t mean me,

that’s the sort of remark BLM would make.

There's four full backs in the squad, two lads who've never played first team and another who's out on loan for the season.

Strongest 15 or so players stay fit we will be good lose 4 or 5 of then i think we have issues.

The squad looks low on forwards well mainly props , where not only low but for me we lack in quality there other than 8 and 10 . I feel squad is a little unbalanced like why so many full backs max alex and gigot would all say thats there prefered and best postion and rocky probably played some of his best rugby there.

Feel it be better not having a walker and gigot on the books and at least one more prop on the books....
That said we are looking so hopefully somthing comes good

Whether it’s his best position or not, unless we add at least two very good props then we’ll have no choice but to play Kelepi in the front row.

Agree dont want to see that but needsvmyst and all that.

Do the 4 full backs not count then? Seen as one of them can cover the entire back line and half back and another one can cover full back, centre and half back.

And this time last year 3 of them hasn’t played first team. What’s point of having an academy if we just dismiss the kids in the squad as not counting!!!

Do you look at that squad and think there’s the quality and depth to compete?

I didn’t question your ‘quality’ comment. I questioned the ‘quantity’ and 32 players with more to come is more quantity then the vast majority of squads will have.

We only need two props to get injured and we're in trouble. It won't matter how many full backs we have.

Especially the "vacant" bit DS.....

I'd happily play 26 of that team in the starting 13.
We could probably add a prop or two but I'm not worried about any other position.

That applies to every team, please name this magical team with 7 or 8 specialist and experienced props?

You can’t, you just peddle this stuff every year.

Two numbers left vacant.

Hopefully one will be Battye. Didn't somebody mention on here aw had been in talks with Mullally. Gone backwards a bit lately,but did well for us in his loan spell with us. Maybe a last chance of a super league contract.

I’d happily take Mullally he’s got what I love to see in a forward, he’s “radged in the head” adds some aggression and when he played for us on loan he gave 100% every game

I think we need one prop for sure two if possible.

However we should have all worked out by now that numbers are worthless without quality. I’d rather get by with what we have than sign a player who brings nothing.

Battye brings something we know that for certain, Mullaly did 5 years ago far from convinced he does now. Since he played for us he’s stagnated and he really should have gone on to far greater, the fact that he didn’t is a concern.


We don’t need world beaters we need grafters, harder to spot than you think.

Someone will turn up they always do.

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I agree.
We've done well by keeping some change back before too so that if loans become available in the season we can add people in.
Sounds great to have a 32 man squad of internationals but in reality you don't need that in the first few weeks/months.

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Quote ="vastman"I think we need one prop for sure two if possible. However we should have all worked out by now that numbers are worthless without quality. I’d rather get by with what we have than sign a player who brings nothing. Battye brings something we know that for certain, Mullaly did 5 years ago far from convinced he does now. Since he played for us he’s stagnated and he really should have gone on to far greater, the fact that he didn’t is a concern. We don’t need world beaters we need grafters, harder to spot than you think. Someone will turn up they always do.'" https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/55435947 there was a possibility second rower but a good runner