I would still think that Albert (Featherstone?), Ferres, Myler and Cuthbertson could all leave / retire if the right opportunity came up.

This would leave us with a leaner and meaner squad that is still a prop and hooker short plus has a reserve team filled with the exciting youngsters ready to step in when required.

That said, even if an experienced prop comes in, we would still look short of cover here, so maybe Cuthbertson goes around again if the 2 gaps can be filled by English players (I have no idea who though)

Kind of recycling the same views here but with us letting Lunt go you have to assume we are in for a hooker. Johnson is way to green to be a regular and Dwyer way too erratic to be an 80 minute player each week.

What I'm not sure on is if releasing Peteru is to allow a hooker to be signed or to allow us to sign a better prop. We will have Crosby back which will be like a new player but obviously his injury record isnt great.

Then there is the talk of a winger.

I think we will see a hooker, a prop and a winger. It's just what level of quality we can get with cap and quota restrictions.

Still no news on Singleton?

Pete Smith tweeted that the Singleton to Toronto "was still very much on" or words to that effect.

He was replying to me, “very much on the cards” is what he said.

That says signings incoming to me. Otherwise its madness

Sounds that way. I'd say we will sign a prop, hooker and winger, once the wages of Singleton and Petaru are off the cap. Could be others moving on too?

One big game of chess...

Ferres one year deal tba shortly plus the prop looks to be Kyle Amor

Dunno which piece of news is worse...

Amor wouldn’t be bad, he’s better than Singleton or Petaru for example.

It’s not like we would be able to sign JWH or similar.

Yep pretty much agree, hopefully not on a really lengthy contract would be a stop gap to bring the younger props through and mature and an upgrade on other two going