I am happy to give Ben a chance to show us what he can do for me he looks a good prospect weather that's in the backrow or front. By the sounds of things we will be announcing more signings in the pack next week. And we need in the backs at least another halfback and i see Inu as joined the backroom staff at salford i wouldn't of mind him joining us and there's Langi who as been released by Catalans he would do for me at . And welcome to our new assistant coach and conditioner they are important additions too.

Slightly off topic which bright spark from the rfl decided to play next seasons summer bash at york. I get some people want it scrapped altogether and some like me liked it at Blackpool but to play it at the home ground of one the sides taking part is ridiculous. Could you imagine a super league side having home advantage for magic weekend the other clubs would have a fit. Under the img proposals the bash will be gone anyway but to finish it like this is very poor for me.

I totally agree with what you say but really it's just common sense. Presumably that's summat that those who make these decisions are utterly bereft of.

Doro an excellent signing.If we were in for Walshaw at Batley,certainly should have been,he’s staying there rather disappointingly.

Doro does look a good 'un!

After what happened with Titus I would have preferred Eribe on a 2 year deal as he does look as though he will make an impact, lets hope he does whilst he's here and we can keep him.

So with eribe doro signing we appear to have a good mix in our pack , with Murray being in the championship team of the year calcott coming to the boil the back end of last season and Maher and doro signed we look very good in the prop department, throw in tangata , larroyer and fairbank into the mix we look strong there . Second row will probably be gee and Kavanagh with the rumoured ryan king battling for places , there’s also the young Forster and hopefully an improved matured Oakley to select from . Due to the new stricter rules on late hits 2nd rowers seem to bare the brunt of bans so I hope we add another to cover for bans , last year we had kav , barber , gee , Knowles , Oakley , garside , so hopefully we have one more to add to the selection.

Hearing him speak,he believes he''ll only be out of S/L one season,so we've done well to get him at all.
Don't know the detail behind Ritson to St Helens but appears the second year contract isn't going to be worth much to Barrow anyway.

Yes that's how I read it with Eribe, it was more his choice than ours and can understand his ambition to be in SL.
Bit of a catch 22 involved in these cases, if he rocks out he likely moves out.
Regards to Ritson it will depend on what the terms of his original contract were, eg if there was a release clause should a SL club come calling and any fees involved or not.

Welcome Eribe doro this is a good signing for me a all action type of prop. Like as been said the only downside is him only signing for 1 season but it is what it is and hopefully he can have a very good year for us and then sign a longer term deal.

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Quote: faxcar "Yes that's how I read it with Eribe, it was more his choice than ours and can understand his ambition to be in SL. Bit of a catch 22 involved in these cases, if he rocks out he likely moves out. Regards to Ritson it will depend on what the terms of his original contract were, eg if there was a release clause should a SL club come calling and any fees involved or not.'" https://www.facebook.com/groups/9083064 ... 173599996/

First game looks likely to be a very decent challenge, Sheffield have some impressive additions to what was already an OK squad in Oliver Roberts, Jesse Sene Laffao plus a motivated Cory Aston and Titus from Halifax. I would hope we've still a couple of new signings to announce plus confirmation that remainder of last seasons squad are staying- but being a bit nervous about how we often start a season would have preferred someone like Bulls first up who once again look to be in a bit of a mess.

Bit dissapoitned in the off season this year no standouts to get excited about, other clubs makign big signings. We have not done much compared to last year with the videos it seems a poor do going in to the 150th year with nothing to get excited about

I think we should be excited about our 150th year!