That's the Radford way,look for players who can cover several positions.
Again we will end up with the slowest backs in Super league

If Fonua is our centre then who is replacing Lineham?

I wish I had a season pass so I could throw it out my pram.

Reckon it will be internal, Lancaster, Naughton and Talanoa fighting for the two spots.

Maybe Michaels also?

I still think Fonua will play on the wing.

Fwiw I'd take Paterson as an impact back rower coming off the bench. Always looks dangerous with ball in hand, a little suspect in defence though.

Just been told cory patersons off to leigh.

Great. Maybe one could stand on anothers shoulders and then put Lineham's shirt over the top.

I'm grasping at last straws.

Really surprised you are concerned about replacing a winger, let's be honest he is a good SL but that's it, he is a good finisher and strong, but he hadn't the pace to break away and score a try like many wingers do and still has defensive lapses.

I quite happy to give Naughton or Lancaster a chance, both have more potential than Lineham.

T Rex was mentioned on Love RL this week??

Gamble signing, not done it for the Dogs, but if he could get his Manly form back he would tear up SL. Won't be cheap though, although we could get a Pritchard type deal with them paying some of his salary.

I'm not concerned about wingers I'm concerned about tries. We aren't going to get 20 tries from any of our existing players and that's going to cost us points.

Both the young wingers are capable of getting 20, both have excellent try scoring records so far. Plus Shaul and out two new overseas players look on paper on scoring a few try's.

Our backs certainly look at improvement on the likes of Sa, Yeaman and Michaels.

Surely this SL back rower in the middle 8's is washbrook? We can't be signing pritchard, washbrook and another back rower to add to mini, westerman, yeaman, turgut and whiting? We're short up front. Sign an out and out prop and let ellis continue in the back row (assuming he gets fit). Suicide to go into 2016 with only 1 recognised hooker in the squad. If houghton gets injured we could end up in the bottom 4 just on the back of that. washbrook isn't, and never will be, an adequate hooker at this level.

We have no decent centres and are losing our best winger so we sign a stand off to play in the centre and a winger who looks like he may also play centre. Add in yeaman who is past it and michaels who really isn't the quality we need and we are as bad, if not worse, than this season in the 3/4's.

Other than taylor and pritchard I'm really struggling to see how the other recruitment is really addressing the needs in the current squad

Carlos is a big gamble if he to play centre, hopefully pay off like Gelling has for Wigan.

Fonua has played more at centre in the last two years for one if the best teams in the than Inu has and everyone thought he was the answer to centre problems.

We have only been linked with one top chads centre and that was Hodges, he would be great for a year, but a big risk at his age and only a short term signing.

Fonua is about as good a outside back we or any other SL will sign for next year.

Fair enough so that's one of the centre spots sorted. What about the other one and a winger? Maybe we can play a couple of our spare back rowers there?

Fonua is being brought to play wing outside carlos as far as I know.

Think we may have been watching a different Lineham over the last few years.

I give up trying to make sense of it. Radford seems to think they are all the same position anyway.

I was reading about Ballin at Manly. Do you reckon they'd pay us to take him off their books?

Wouldn't be a bad shout, and could be very destructive from what I've seen on Tube?

People mention LR trying to replicate 'that Bradford team'..... I may be wrong but didn't at one point have Vaikona and Vanikolo at wing and centre? They did alright....or was they both wingers - can't remember.

Anyway if these two can even get close to them, then could be great signings.

I feel pretty positive about them to be honest.

The only question for me is has LR got the game plan to make best use of them?

Just seen on twitter that rankin is gone or going

We've known that for months

If these are our backs at our club next season
Shaul
Naughton
Talanoa
Fonua
Yeaman
Carlos
Logan
Micheals
Lancaster
I'd go for as follows if I have the new signings in correct positions
Shaul
Talanoa
Carlos
Fonua
Micheals
If fonua is a winger , looks like talanoa centre which I don't like .

Can't believe we would evcen consider signing paterson. Utter garbge. I'd rather platy washbrook, whiting and hadley before him. Can't tackle and goes missing

Yes but not sure if the tweet meant he has gone now.

What does it say?

With all due respect Dave, Lineham has far more in his locker than Naughton and Lancaster have shown so far.