He’s a real find and one we can’t afford to mess up. Sadly you just can’t push it. He’s moved from Academy to reserves to Barrow and is now with arguably the best non SL club. That’s good going. I expect him to feature heavily in any friendlies this year and take it fro there.

I agree. He’s not far off and another pre season and a few friendly should see him challenge for a SL place on the bench. He may get the odd game back end of season if he keeps performing well for featherstone. Lad could also have a chance to play in championship playoffs/final.

Just thinking about our forwards and props for 2023.

Is there any realistic targets for us from the NRL?

What about David Fifita? For me he is still a very good prop and I think would be worth another season. Would his brother be an option for us perhaps. Seems he’s played a number of games in the NRL but I’m not sure on how he’s been playing. He would most certainly have to take a pay drop to join us and potentially David. Maybe he could bring young Franklin Pele with him!

There was mention of Will Maher but not heard anything on that for some time.

Eseh looks like he could be ready to go in 2023 finally. Would be good to build a monster pack for next season but I suppose we’re not the only team looking.

I see Robbie Mulhern is the next out of the door at Warrington.

A very Trinity type signing. Lost his way a little at Warrington but a talented lad with lots to prove.

I think he could be an astute long term replacement for Arona with him being comfortable as a natural middle although he does bring a bit more natural size than T and also non quota obviously.

Fully agree with this analysis

Yes 100% he’d be an excellent signing, just seems to have lost his way a little at Wire but a lot of players seem to have there at the minute. I’d have him in a heart beat, class is permanent and the lad has it in abundance.

Reports say contract talks unsuccessful. It seems to be more of a case that they couldn’t agree terms rather than none offered.

I’d be a bit cautious to offer any big money but certainly worth looking at for sure.

Aye just noticed that. Big difference isn’t it.

On the games I saw him play for Hull KR, as they came back up in 2017 or 2018, always looked to be on of their better players.

Seems to have lost his way at Warrington.

But still only 26/27, and a few years ahead of him.

Could go well for us. I think he’s a local lad too, which can be a bonus.

Mulhern would be ideal for us
Could be a very good long term non quota addition to trin with his best years yet to come

I’d be pleased if we did sign him

Mulberry’s play is obviously suffering with the ongoing issues at the wires and as such had been mediocre, but obviously when he was signed he was playing good rugby for the Robins . Can we afford him firstly as the wires seem to have a bottomless pit of monies to throw about ,and I’ll bet he was on a decent wack to drag him away from HKR .
If we can sign him all well and good, I’m sure he would settle in to our style of play ,but I’ve a sneaky feeling we have far bigger fish to fry on the prop forwards front .

Story surfacing that we are trying to get him signed up before weekend. Heard owt?

That would be our type of deal, as Warrington would be paying him until November

If it’s a loan he will in the least give a ton of effort in order to secure his livelihood. Decent signing.

It's Bowden I'm referring to. We were discussing him some time ago and I dug this link up before the separate thread kicked off.

We all want to Keep Mulhern as he's solidcand consistant but apparently he's asking (well his manager) For too much money so we're letting him go

I would point out that Warrington are investing heavily on new signings from the NRL, plus they have several already on large contracts. This is why they are trying to offload players probably to keep within the salary cap. I could be that his demands are quite reasonable but not at a club with an already hefty wage bill.

My Wire mate says the rumour on Mulheron is he's off to Leeds

If he’s asking too much for Wire to agree to I highly doubt we would be in the market for him.

It’s a shame as I think he’s a quality prop and is better than Butler and Bowden….

Not too sure about I think he is overated

Agree, I think we are building Mulhearm up a bit too much. He’s a solid prop in my opinion and in an underperforming forward pack at Wire has stood out a bit. If he was that good then Wire would be willing to meet his demands I have no doubt of that.

The issue is the success of being called up to the England and England performance squads, his market value increases but this was whilst he was a top performer at KR. He’s then joined Wire as more of a rotation forward (imo) where the pressure is on and hasn’t stood out as he did in the more underdog role. Wrongly he’ll be expecting the big money deal that the likes of Wire can offer.

I don’t think we’ll see him at Trinity, although I was reading he was with our academy at one point which I didn’t know.

He did stand out at Warrington, that's why many of their fans don't want him to leave. Every time I watched them I thought he was their best prop.

Difficult to assess the Warrington players as the club is all over the place.

The difficulty for Willie, and any coach, is to decide if the player will perform in your team, regardless of how they are performing in their current team.
Plenty of top players don't perform after a move and equally plenty of average players can become the best at the new club.
Tough task.