It may not be a popular opinion, but our youngsters are simply not as talented as the likes of Leeds, Wigan, Wire, Saints and even Bradford, we still have a few very good young players but look at the junior rep squads to back this up, that said I would like to see Williams at some point this year.

I'm a big fan of Obst and would be very happy if we signed him!!

still need 1 or 2 signings to balance the squad. a hopefully a half and then somebody that can cover the pivots or play right centre

Monaghan is Wire's no1 hooker, with Higham being spelled off the bench. I think that if all 3 are fit then Clarke will be used at LF with Harrison playing more at prop.

Jack Briscoe, Reece Lyne, Jordan Turner and Lee Williams could be getting a bit of game time this year then.

Good luck to them.

so who is the next signing to be announced?

Serious question all you in the know that was saying we had signed someone last night , was it phelps or sammutt ? Or someone else ?

Phelps.

Well thats got to be some sort of record, even for this board!.........47 posts on a rumour thread & guess what.......................not a hint of a rumour!!!!!!

Peter Wallace and Dane Tilse for 2012 if you want rumours!

Much beter.......Press conference before MM

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He'll have a great year this season, Canberra have got 4 very useful props.

Things moving quickly? We need a 7/9 still so Obst wouldn't be a bad signing nor would Micky Higham. Squad looks desperately short though.

In that case he'll soon get signed back on by Canberra or at least be offered big money to stay in NRL?

The new tax ruling will soon put to bed most of these "he's coming, he's signed" rumours im afraid mate.

My opening comment was down to a lack of names on the end of the last thread so i usually continue it on when we start a new one and there was no one to add.

I am hopeful of one more.

Anything come of this Sheldon?

At least the Sammut rumours have finally been put to bed as we couldn't sign him due to having 5 non-fed players now.

(Please don't someone mention Tongans/EU passports! It wouldn't make a difference!)

Is it just me or does it look like someone as nicked thier banjos

It's not the end of the tunnel. It's a train coming to run everyone over. Or so some would have you believe!

Some interesting theories, I'm not saying it's true for one minute but if we did "load" the salary cap last year someones head should roll, we would have effectively had more then £1.8 worth of player and still performed poorly, and would have put us at a big disadvantage for this season.

Again I'm not saying it's true, I'm not even sure if there are any rules against it, but people have said it's how Warrington can seem to be able to spend more then anyone else, but they get it right on the field and juggle it so that they are competitive each season.

One more to come

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"[uAt least[/u one more"

Good quote from Long about the compassionate leave story:
"Reading in the Sun newspaper last week that I had been sent home from training on compassionate leave all I could think of is why has nobody told me. Sat at training reading the story my first thoughts were, why didn't I get the memo.[u I could have been at home, my feet up, with a cup of tea watching some of our squad's relatives appearing on the Jeremy Kyle show.[/u"