When Meli took one of the several interceptions on offer last night Webb looked shot in his "chase" back. Well I say chase back - what I mean is leisurely saunter. For God sake I could have put my pie down, made my way to the pitch and wobbled my fat ass down field, stopping on the half way line to catch my breath and still get there before Webb did.

He's a spent force and is best days are well behind him now - how long before BJB is fit?

Bish Is about three weeks off, and watkins 5 weeks according to mc

good not too long then hopefully they will get a chance if nothing else now lets give some of these young lads some first team exposure and experience, along with hood, singleton, Stewart, Wilson etc...

I agree - we need a clear out which will include the coach/es and some high profile players.

Did we make a clean brake once last night? McDermout!

If as I fear changes will not be as far reaching as we would like and mac is retained how do we think attendance will be effected

Down to 7th in the league after Catalans win against Wigan today.

Brilliant not a good weekend

Hooray, that means we've beaten a team above us in the league.

Two teams in fact cas and catalans. Not doing too bad are we, things suddenly seem bettericon_wink.gif

Three apparently.

two of them were in the changing room toilet though

Ali needs to eat some pies . Preferably lard pies . Slimline Ali ain't got the impact that he had in previous seasons .

When Gary H went to Australia in November last year he said he had met with all the player's agents and was looking at signings for 2012 as he always plans a year in advance. Let's hope that the "sleeve" has some player(s) already identified or even signed up as last year he left it too late as the best NRL players had already signed for other clubs. I think we need a couple of marquee quality signings, a centre and a tough go forward prop. We have lots of good young players with loads of potential who can gain experience from these few quality signings. Various names have been mentioned but they maybe are only rumours. Matt Cooper is out of contract at the Dragons and Antonio Kaufusi is not wanted by Bennett at Newcastle, are these two on Gary's shopping list? Not sure on the rumoured swap of Chase an Burrow. Gary H also spoke with Andrew Dunneman about being Assistant Coach. Is it worth revisiting to work alongside Danny Buderus who could be player coach in the short-term?
To sign anybody we need room under the salary cap. But if Webb, Senior, Leuluai, Lauitiiti and Kirke/Bailey left as speculation suggests then there would be money available. How many spaces are available for overseas players as I assume Cross and Hauraki are filling up 2 spaces which is a waste. Overseas players should only be signed if they add something to the squad.
Only Gary knows what's happening but we should be preparing now for 2012 so we can hit the ground running next year.

Season ticket sales were 1500 down this year you would expect the same is not slightly more next season if things continue - a pretty soft run in might help sway some?

Hull Kr - home
Crusaders - away
Bulls - home
Wigan - away
Catalans - away
Hull - home
Salford - away
Castleford - home
Harlequins - away
Wakefield - home
Huddersfield - away

From that I would expect 6 wins - 3 defeats and the two games against the Hull sides could go either way.