Signed till end of season 35 years old

Better playing for us than sat warming the bench at Salford, if he can stay fit, even at his age he will be a great asset. He isn't cup tied either which is a bonus

Have Rovers de-registered Allgood for the rest of the season then?

Shame for him, but if there was only a chance of him making it back for the 8s, I can see why it has been done.

Welcome Tony Puletua!

Surely he should have signed for the pensioners?

Maybe next year, or the year after.

Your not allowed to say things about kr players on here.

Great signing, if it was 5 years ago, that's two loan signings, should be looking at using your youth system rather signing loan players, I'd get one loan signing, but you now have 4 on your books.

I suppose that's what the the threat of relegation does.

You can, but if you silly things people will call you silly. Like when I'm being tedious and people use the yawn emoticon. I've set you up there...

Now, people shouldn't be calling you a cretin or a moron and 'tsk' to those people. Gormer is the officially sanctioned term, everyone should know that by now.

I know you were probably fit to burst by the end of your losing-streak hibernation, but please troll responsibly, there's a good chap.

So Tony Puletua - if the rumour about Burke is right, we might even have options!

I haven't derailed nor called any forum users names have I?

I must have dreamt green, cox, ollet, esslemont, and holker playing at Leeds then



IIRC our u19's are on the whole a year or 2 younger than hull's current crop and we simply do not have props who are developed enough to play super league yet, when you are down to. Only 2 fit props in the club it seems pretty reasonable to bring in a couple of loans

Makes teams try to win as many games as possible rather than using a supposedly elite competition for development? Madness.

Of our fringe first teamers, only Esslemont is even vaguely a prop. He was mainly a second rower coming through the ranks. It's unusual and potentially damaging for players to go from 19s to first team in one leap nowadays. And I doubt many could hack it for more than a couple of weeks at prop. So while you might label this as a short term solution, it'll have more longevity than dropping a teenager in over his head.

Forgive us if we don't use your club as a template for success.

Indeed not.

I haven't ever learned to play the piano or kissed a girl from Burundi.

Who said you should, have I even mentioned Hull in my post?

How about you use the top sides in the league, the ones that continually win things as a template, how many loans players do they regularly sign?

Are teams trying to win more than last season though? You could argue the opposite was happening at Wakey under Webster.

You played last week without this signing and did really well against the best team away and I'm sure you will have more bodies back this week, if you don't have another forward ready to step up, then maybe you didn't deserve that recent good rating for your academy system.

A bit of a pointless dig at rovers really larroyer lunt where wanted on permanent deals i can't say wether Burke is or isn't wanted on a permanent deals, and the 2 come in this week are to get us through a terrible time with injuries, loan deals are coming more regular now by most clubs

I'm distrustful of RFL ratings. Hangover from the licensing debacle, and I think their approach is way too one-size-fits-all prescriptive.
When I win Euro millions, I'll have glance at their tick sheet, borrow anything that i think is useful and then have a think about what might really work and what is really the best way to allocate resources.

Teams are limited on what they can spend on players outside the top 25 earners. Most teams carry 6 or 7 I think. As it happens, we could really do with a prop and we've mainly got backs and backrowers.

tbf, if Campese, Kelly and Blair were all out long-term, I'd not be calling for a Marsh-Robinson half back pairing to fill the breach for any great length of time either..

You don't become ready by playing before you're ready.

Given that the 'Good' rating was given a matter of weeks ago I doubt it's likely that we'll see the results on the pitch for a few years yet.

Or were you just trying to make a cheap dig...?

Tony Puletua, very good player back in the day, will give us a bit of size and experience when we are lacking,

When did he last play? Was a good player at saints and will add some size, what happened at Salford?

Weyman & Bailey gone for good, Allgood, Walker & Tilse all medium to long term absent.

Losing 5 experienced props would force anyone into the loan market but we'll still have 2 local products as our starting 8 & 10 on Saturday. At this stage of the season availability of quality players is next to zero so I think Chris Chester has done well to bring in Greenwood & Puletua. Who else could he have got...at this stage....of better quality?

Maybe you think that if Hull were to lose their 5 most experienced prop forwards for a significant period they would simply rely on local kids but with respect I think that is a very naive point of view.

Puletua I agree would have been a better signing 5 years ago .........so would Leon Pryce, Mark Minichiello and Gareth Ellis. But unlike them he is strictly short term and a minor investment.

BTW Larroyer & Lunt technically are loan signings but they have finished permanently with their parent clubs and will not be going back. Larroyer definitely and Lunt probably will be signing deals to stay, the loan deals were a mechanism to get things over the line and allow time for further negotiation.

You have been in SL for a good few years now your academy should be ready to support your first team. Rovers fans have used that for years.

You can't still count Bailey and Weyman as they left months ago and one of them has been replaced already.

I forgot about Lunt, so that's 5 loan players.

People who know my posts, know I'm not a troll or after cheap digs, I'll give rovers credit with signings etc, but this is disappointing, I'd rather have a young lad playing then a 35 year old average player who hasn't played for months. I'd say the same if Hull signed him, like I did when we signed Howarth.

Watch him score the winning try on Saturday now !!!!