Yeh, I pretty much agree with that.

I think once we confirm Huby signing either Kirke or Bailey will be moved on.

Would prefer better. I think we should sign someone for the backrow, as I don't think we have enough variation of player there in the club. Chan is the type we need, a line breaking offloading back rower, but I just think we could do better if we were really looking.

Huby? He has signed for the Giants hasn't he?
Gotcha Achurch has an offload in him and was looking decent before injury struck ,Cuthbertson has the offload in his armoury and IF England breaks through that kid offloads and line breaks for fun.

I must admit I actually forgot about Achurch. He is the only one who is different to what we have in the back row.

I don't think England will stay with us to be honest, so wasn't including him.

Chan has been awful this season, a mistake ridden penalty machine.

I heard somewhere (not necessarily anywhere of good provenance) that he was going to stay at Cas after all. Has anything been confirmed? We were mentioned in earlier rumours, but those seem to have gone away.

I quite like Jason Chan, but I also don't think in a salary capped sport that the back row is where the most urgent investment will be needed at the end of the season, unless it was for a real gamebreaker, and I don't think Chan is one of those. Not many of them around.

If we were going to get Chan the time to do it was when we signed Hauraki instead of him from the Crusaders when they went belly-up.
Too late now.

We are signing vainikolo and fielden so don't need him

I thought Lomu was a done deal? Do we need Vainikolo as well? Don't forget Wendell Sailor will definitely play for us loads of times as a dual code player, and not just once in a Boxing Day friendly.

To be honest I don't think we need Chan, he's an ok player but nothing special. For next season we have: Singleton, Peacock, Leuluai, Cuthbertson, Bailey, Clarkson, Kirke, Foster, Jones-Buchanan, Yates, Achurch, Delaney and Minchella who can all play somewhere up front. Another forward isn't the problem.
We need a good half-back combination to fill in when McGuire and Burrow are gone (which arguably in McGuires case is already!)