I don’t pretend to know the salary each player is on but I imagine if prior went to Bradford we would need to cover a really large portion of his salary as they simply couldn’t afford to pay him more what we pay him.

Also I don’t know prior but I do wonder why he would want to finish his career playing a year at Bradford? He was thinking about going back to aus before he resigned with us so unless it is purely a money thing wouldn’t he just rather go back to aus and get a job?

I doubt he would get a job playing rugby in Australia.
And I do think if he has any sense he will stay on for another year and get a decent salary.
I reckon a loan to Fev or Bradford with us paying some of his wages and maybe Leigh doing a deal with us to get MacDonald otherwise they are over their quota.
Win win!

Wouldn't Prior still be on our quota though?

I presumed the same.

Why would it even be a loan? He's in the last year of his contract anyway so one year deal - we pay half (or whatever) and Bob's yer Uncle.

Is MacDonald the centre we need? Imagine he’ll be another 2 year deal?

Wakefield were apparently interested in Lisone. Maybe they'll be open to taking Prior with us covering some of his wage

Sam is best buddies with Fusitua and mentions hooking up with him and Rohan again as key reasons why he’s signed so I doubt Fus is going anywhere

Very happy with this signing. We need a big impact prop. Smith knowing him is a big positive. As others have said it’s about as good an nrl signing as you’ll get these days. The perceived speed of the move seems to suggest we’ve been working on this a while and I suspect we’re not done yet.

Looks like we'll see a very different prop rotation next year. With Lisone, Sangare and Holroyd you have a set of props who will add real oomph to what was a really powder puff front row. We might also see a more aggressive defensive structure as well - the more passive version was probably about conceding we couldn't hold the middle rather than a sustainable strategy.

We definitely look short of a centre, and we don't have a lot of depth at halfback. Myler is probably OK as first reserve halfback if Hooley is solid, but after that its Sinfield or Cam Smith.

With 2 shorter minutes impact props it'll be interesting to see how Smith starts and rotates. Neither are starting players and you wouldn't imagine bringing both sangare and lisone on together.

Oledzki Tetevano Prior Holroyd Sangare Lisone Walters only Oledzki and Tetevano stand out as starters although i'm not really a fan of Tet starting doubt Prior will be used much at all if all stay healthy.

I don't think you'd want to have Tetevano and Oledzki on the field together too often. Very little go-forward and too lightweight in defence against big packs. I'd see those two spelling each other and the rest spelling between themselves so you always have an impact prop alongside one of them.

With Sangare, Lisone and a fit Holroyd we could move Tet back to LF