Maybe they said that about Mark Minichiello and Brett Delaney,and they haven't done so bad.I can't remember Brett pulling up trees before he joined us.I'm willing to trust GH's judgement,if it comes off, hope he is more of a Wayne Collins rather than a Paul Bell.

The scene is the headingley boardroom, 2016 recruitment meeting,October 12th 2015. Uncle gary "well brian the good news is we have 2 potential overseas options for hooker that fit in with my moth infested salary cap wallet" Brian Mcd " fabulous gary pray tell me their names I am agog with anticipation, are they akin to Daniel buderus." Uncle gary " we'll we have feau balloon or glen buttkiss" . Brian Mcd " have you still got robbie ward's phone number?"

Beau Falloon was the Titans player of the year in 2014 after having a great year. Obviously 2015 has been a disrupted season, missing most of it through suspension (due to the drugs trial) and then a couple of minor injuries. The reason they're letting him go is because they've trying to clear salary cap space to rebuild after putting all their eggs in the Cherry-Evans basket that went wrong an they've got young Kieran Mossely (who is seen as a star of the future), plus a couple of other experienced back-up hookers in Nathan Friend and Matt Srama.

They're certainly not letting him go because he ain't good enough. Granted, he's not a superstar, but neither was Paul Aiton and look at the impact he has had on how we played this year. Falloon is a better all round player than Aiton. If we sign Falloon, I'll be having a punt on him for MoS next year.

Cheers super ted. Hope you are right. All I know is 4 mins on YouTube where looks to have good pace which will help our attack. Just love his name. If he is as good or better than Aiton it will be great news because we really miss him. You need a tackling hooker. Burrow is a great player but trying to hide a hooker for most of the game in defence is a real drawback and one big reason some of the other forwards like Ablett, jp etc have got worn down.

Beau Falloon seems to be the likely replacement for Aiton and maybe we may have got a very good player due to his unfortunate circumstances down under

I would have liked Josh Hodgson as my 9 for next season above all othe 9's mentioned but he looks destined for a great NRL career

Any news on buttriss?

Falloon was cack this year. The Titans aren't trying to make space on the cap - they've got oodles of space because DCE isn't joining them. They have been a poor side for a number of years, and once Searle left the club to let it's been run by people who know what they're doing. They've looked at the squad and realised there are far too many garbage players and a very bad culture amongst the squad. Hence the clearout.

Falloon would probably do a good job in SL, but TBH he's the sort of overseas player that shouldn't be getting a gig in SL.