agree with you there GG, hope the new coach realises that nev is purely a tackling 2nd row and uses him as such instead of flogging the dead horse that is playing him at prop!

Horne is set to be loose forward, Murrell is in talks with Wakefield and Salford.

Which is then an argument to play Wheeldon, Watts, Lovegrove or whoever else misses out in any given week.

While Netherton's stats are not good - but there is no stat for speed of ptb, either when he's been tackled or from the tackles he makes. And that is what allows us to get a roll on or get a defensive line set and then up quickly.

If our other bench prop was a tackle-busting, offloading, defensively suspect, knackered after 10 minutes type, then JN would balance that well. Our problem, IMO, is that we've become all bread and no jam.

Netherons ptb speed is no quicker than any of the players you mentioned there so let's put this non existent argument to bed right now. All three players mentioned plus Taylor are much better front rowers than Jase both in terms of effectiveness and technique.

No...



...but, assuming they are close to their best and fit I wouldn't have Netherton in the 17. I'll be interested to see what a new coach makes of it. And how he sees a couple of younger players who started out as back-rowers and are used as props by JM.

I'm not so sure about Horne, although I've not seen a lot of him to be fair & he certainly ran riot against us the other week. It may be that my opinions of him are based on his FC days, so hopefully he has come on leaps & bounds since then.

Who is signing these new players, a new coach or your chairman?

Your guess is as good as mine. As the new coasch hasn't yet been announced, I'm assuming the chairman?
Probably wrong though, I usually am.

Probably our chairman. Like ive said before this season the new coach will be given a squad to work with and told "earn the right to build your own team". We have 14 players OOC at the end of 2012, if he has earned the right, he can build his team then.

I was just thinking if it was your new coach it could point to who it was based on the players he wanted.

Andrew Webster so I'm told.

U avin a laaarf

I met up with a couple of old rugby mates yesterday, one of them is friends with Steve Macnamara who told him that Rovers were making a top signing in the near future, he said he couldnt name him

and didnt say wether he was English or Aussie, i will watch this space with interest.

Would have thought this was a given tbh, given the number of players rumoured to be going, plus Mason's cap money.

there top signing is g horne

Mmmm, im just curios and impatient to know who it might be,

i suppose i will just have to restrain my curiosity and wait to see.

Their

Announcing any signings early is, of course, "selling the fans short". Just the three announced so far then.

I've no complaints about the signing of G Horne, from what ive seen of him this year he looks a good aquasition, he certainly looks a much improved player from when at Hull Fc, however i do know he's not the player been refered to as the top signing in question, sorry to dissapoint you.

You should leave those magic mushrooms alone.

Maybe a British International if the story came from McBannana ?

Hey, are you saying he's a bit of a fruit?, seriously though, apparently he just said that he knew of a top signing by Rovers but wouldnt elaborate by stating names nationalities etc.

Coach do u think or player

Was that not in the year of Crocker signing? I forget - but then it never mattered much to us.



Crocker was announced in late May, which is a bit different to mid-August - and not in the least relevant if I've got the wrong year.



seventies red's tip, I've decided, is Gareth Ellis, whom Peter Gentle will be bring across in an oversized hold-all.
But that's for t'rumours thread.

Another second rower?