I think Arthur will start with Handley at centre, reckon he will want 4 ball carriers from 2-5, Connor can put pressure on them all and Frawley for the 7 shirt.

Our kicking both at goal and general play looks like a question mark next year.

Hope young Sinfield is watching what Harry smith did in both the semi and GF

Kicking at goal is a huge concern for me. Connor would be the natural choice but he has to be on the field.

I’d say the next cycle of recruitment will include a Centre, a Halfback, a Prop and a Backrower. We should have 2 quota spots to play with.

Yeah lisone and frawley should create two spots. I would hope that we can produce a centre from what we have and not need to recruit outside (we need home grown players for cap dispensation allowing us to spend bigger on outside recruits). A prop, overseas half back and a back rower. We should be looking at that now and signing the highest quality we can in those positions. Hopefully we can keep Arthur a few years and he can see a route to winning the comp in 2-3 years and wants to do that before he heads home.

This might be a bit controversial, but I think raiding the NRL for a half back is a futile quest. Given the huge difference in respective salary caps good ones either don't want to come, or are injured/well past their best. You then end up with Frawley type players on inflated wages. I'd rather give Connor a go and get Sinfield out on loan and give him the game time he needs to develop. We'll get far more bang for our buck targetting 2nd row and prop in the overseas market.