He's signing for Halifax Town to pair up with their mysterious German star.

I hope we have signed Jake that type of signing is what can get fans excited for next season. Also and it is no surprise as he as been pictured in preseason training Cole Oakley as signed for another year from a physical point of view he looks the part but we all know it takes more then just a good body to be a good rugby player.

It can’t be long now till maizen is announced, Keyes , jouffret, kav , all following on instagram, plus cash generator Halifax and he’s taken a pic of walmsey with his dog in the frost/ snow .

Part Quote. "he’s taken a pic of walmsey with his dog in the frost/ snow ."

Why not use a camera like everyone else.

Announcement at 5pm - hopefully confirmation of Maizen

Brilliant signing this , just what we need , can play wing , centre and fullback ramping up competition for places and fax have a very explosive back line now .

Very happy with this signing lets hope the lad can live up to expectation if so we will have a very good player on our hands.

Potential to be a very good signing for us and fills the empty centre spot we have. At this point I think our squad looks pretty complete, we have cover in pretty much all positions and I think overall we do look quite a bit stronger than last season which should be enough to put us around that 3rd spot and maybe compete with Fev and Toulouse which would be nice. Again though as has been mentioned before, the one thing we can look forward to is playing some good rugby, we have exciting talent all over the pitch and in that respect it should be another enjoyable season.

Aye, this looks a good signing from what i've seen of him albeit his hat trick was against Scotland with Lachlan opposite him. What Fax have now is real pace and as we all know that's summat that can't be taught and with a few flyers it really gives the opposition food for thought. Can't wait for the season to arrive. Up The Fax!

My only reservation regarding the squad if I’m being hypercritical is second row , we have king , kav n gee which are all top players then Oakley and Forster the two young lads , the interviews with Grix regarding the two young ones seems to suggest they’re not quite ready and they’ll have to prove themselves this year , especially Oakley who needs to ‘ dominate’ when out on loan to champ 1 clubs which seems to suggest he hasn’t been . I asked Matt shaw about anymore signings on his rugby league live yesterday, he said ‘ relatively quiet but maybe a couple more signings, see how the next few weeks pan out ‘

My Christmas wish is Fax hit the ground running and we don t play catch up as the past couple of years.
As has been said we have fliers across the park, just hope other teams are scared of our backs and the forwards dominate.
Looking forward to a great season.

There are several others who have played 2nd row in the past who no doubt could do again if needed - Larroyer, Tangata and Fairbank - with Maizen signing I'm now pretty happy with the numbers and quality of the squad. In fact when everyone is fit Grix is going to have a challenge keeping some very good players happy who are not getting in the 17, in both the forwards and backs.

Let me digress my thoughts, we have finished 3rd on two consecutive seasons on the back of a rebrand and new coach , my feeling is that Dave Grayson and the new board have spotted a window of time where fax have an opportunity of success ( my personal opinion is that if Simon doesn’t achieve superleague with fax within the next 2 seasons he will be snapped up by an existing super league club perhaps Warrington given his affiliation with that club) I genuinely believe Grix is one of the best young out and out coaches in rugby league, when I look at other coaches in the championship and some of the super league there is no one I would rather have ( side note craig lingard appears to be an exceptional coach certainly at this level, Rohan smith another ) The takeover to me coincides with the process of licensing, Dave Grayson as said the reason for the consortium was to give more funds to Grix , the championship will be a lot closer than previous seasons, as far as I am concerned now is the time to challenge for promotion, a quality 2nd row and half is what we need to challenge.

If we role play last season into this our injuries early season we’re , woodburn hall , gee , Knowles , worthington , we were lucky in the halves compared to Robinson and Harris the year before, do we have the quality to replace them at the same level with the current squad, I think not , that is the basis of my reasoning.

think loan signings can cover any emergency

We have twice finished in third place on the back of slow starts. That's where we need to improve. We have the players and coach to do just that. Up The Fax.