Hope he does well for us goes without saying but still unsure about the whole deal especially a 3yr contract!

Paul Aiton will do a very good job for you.
He rarely misses any tackles and he tackles hard, he is a full 80 minute player and will run his blood to water. This season he regularly took a break by playing at loose forward. His distribution is good enough and when he's running himself from dummy half he is a threat.

Hope he doesn't mind long spells on the bench.
Think we will see a lot of sinfield switching between 7 & 9 next season.not happy losing mcshane but wish him well now here's here.

Doubt he'll need to showcase that stamina for about 3 years.

Who knows things might change

with a proper hooker signed I would expect him to be starting. I would now expect to see burrow start at 7 or adding impact from the bench as in 2011

the reason McShane was dropped was because his defence was poor for a hooker, while he didn't offer the same going forward as Burrow.

With Aiton now starting at hooker, we can afford to have Kev & Danny defending out wide, keeping them fresh as they get through far fewer tackles. With Sutcliffe ready to step into the halves for poor form / injury, and Stevie Ward coming into the BR, we have good cover all round for our pivots.

Meaning our best side now is:

1. Zak Hardaker
2. Ryan Hall
3. Kallum Watkins
4. Joel Moon
5. Tom Briscoe
6. Kevin Sinfield
7. Danny McGuire
8. Brad Singleton
9. Paul Aiton
10. Jamie Peacock
11. Brett Delaney
12. Carl Ablett
13. Stevie Ward

14. Rob Burrow
15. Kylie Leuluai
16. Ryan Bailey
17. Jamie Jones-Buchanan

Starting the season with a proper number 9 has to be progress on last. Let's hope he turns out o be a shrewd acquisition.