I think we need that bit of grunt in the halves rough the opposition up a bit and looking at burns on u tube he's certainly Gonna ruffle a few feathers

We have gone soft just lately, we are in need of an enforcer.

Travis Burns is the same height as Chuck Norris, so he's well hard.

176cm to be precise and 85kg in weight that will do nicely

just watched this guy on the tube, hurry over you look like what we have been missing for ages my one fear is he a david watkins

1.New Full Back / Sherrif
2.Salter
3.Welham
4.Gleeson
5.Caro
6.Hall
7.Dobson
8.Lovegrove
9.Hodgson
10.Tuimavave
11.Mika
12.Paterson
13.Burns

14.Paea
15.O Hara
16. Withers
17.Griffin
18.Horne
19.Peterson
20.Green
21.Cox
22.Hodgson
23.Ollet
24. Hiel
25.Carlile
26.Hepi

Another full back a winger and another forward on top of these players and i think we will be ok good blend of experience and youth.

My guess:

Fullbacks - Hall and Sheriff
Wings - Hodgson, Caro (?), Latus
Centres - Welham, Gleeson, Salter
Halfs - Dobson and Burns - need some cover, though Hall could go into 6.
Hookers - Hodgson, Withers (and Carlile?)
Props - Taylor (or a replacement), Paea, O'Hara, ET, Green, Netherton (and Beaumont?)
Second row - Paterson, Cox, Mika, Horne
Loose forward - Lovegrove, Griffin.

with uncertainties that's ~25 players. I'd expect Peterson to be retained, Ollet, Heil and Johnson would depend on who's coming from behind, in the 20s and 18s.
We could do with somebody who can cover 7 and a wing (Dave Scott, perhaps)

Ill make a prediction. By next mid-season, Tyla Hepi will be a first choice player in the back row.

FB: Hall/Sherriff

W: Hodgson/Caro(?)/Latus

C: Welham/Gleeson/Salter/Heil

HB: Dobson/Burns

H:Withers/Carlile

P: Tuimavave/Taylor/O'Hara/Paea/Green/Beaumont

BR: Paterson/Mika/Cox/Lovegrove/Griffin

LF: Hodgson/Peterson

Thats how I see it with a couple of promotions from the academy. Maybe lacking the star names of previous squads, but it looks a solid squad that if players in key positions stay fit, could perform above the sum of its parts.

Regarding it being a thinner squad - well we are trying to trim the wage bill by all accounts. Plus one or two have taken a step forward in recent weeks. And we either have or want to upgrade some players' deals.
If we've replaced Clinton, Webster, Galea and B. Green with ET, Gleeson, Paterson and Burns, then we need to fill the gaps left by Watts, Wheeldon, Murrell and McDonnell. We really did start this season with a lot of props! Green, Griffin, Sheriff and Peterson have all shown promise. I'd like one more quality signing - but then I'd like all sorts of things.

Regarding Hepi - that'd be great. Unless you mean we're selling everybody else!

but is he as tall as bruce lee

If Burns is better than Green , would Wigan not have gone for him instead?

on that basis then why did ellis go to hull

Wow, you're quick, aren't you.

Question mark has been purposefully omitted because it wasn't really a question.

Ah, the rhetorical question.

As you're no longer a woman, you must by default be a psychopath.

You bad man, got an autograph for you today but you're not having it.

How did this move come about? Did Blake instigate this? Or his agent? Or Rovers? Or did Wigan just come knocking?

Green started it 'cos Rovers are skint and he hates the coach and Chris Chester made him clean the toilets when he was injured.

That’s what I heard as well, he was also sent to Burger King every day to get the whole teams lunch with just £5, and Neil Hudgell asked for change.

No wonder he wants out!

The David Watkins who played for Salford?

he was a good player but no one was able to control him

Is it true he did some doorman work in Cardiff?

I dont know but i remember a doorman at the Bali Hai nightclub banging him to rights one night, so to speak.