For all the criticism of Sinfield he had to go with Myler and Tui at half back at start of this year as they was both on long term deals. Neither was his signings but that's the reason the rebuild will take time. Stupid long term deals given to average or in these cases below average players.

Having said that I'm not convinced by Lui.

If you put Lui with a good game manager he will go ok. Though as well all know we are in desperate need of a game manager which is why this looks an odd move if done in isolation.

There simply has to be a game managing hb on the way as well. There must be.

You're not getting Hastings for this or next year I thought that was common knowledge by now. His mum put on the Salford fan group on FB that you had offered him a 3yr deal but he wants to go home by then. Same situation last year with when Wigan came in for him and he chose to stay at Salford.

160k a year salary seems rather steep if that what he's on

I really would not get hung up on media reported figures.

It's alright getting in some decent players for next year and Watson has done a brilliant job on peanuts but if you've got no halves to work with doesn't matter who the rest of your squad is. Part of the recruitment is to try and persuade Jacko to stay another year and to prove we have the players to compete in the top half of the table. I just wish we could pull in an extra 1500 fans at home games to make Watto and Blease's job a hell of a lot easier.

Gutted about Lui going as him and Jacko work great together but if we have to balance the books then I guess it's rather him than Jacko. Oh and I'm gonna upset a few Leeds fans here but I think Jacko will only go elsewhere in SL for a genuine chance of winning silverware. Let's be honest that ain't gonna happen at Leeds for at least 12 months.... by which time he'll hopefully have a gig in the NRL. He's best mates with Lussick as well and they live together and if we can match any offer that Leeds and Wigan put on the table I think he'll stay with us. If it was a long-term move then obviously Leeds or Wigan would be a more viable option as they'll pull themselves together eventually but it's 12 months so not sure it'll happen. I have a feeling Koukash may well make up any shortfall in wages to keep him at the AJ Bell.

As for Lui, class player. Any of your fans saying otherwise are just plain dumb or don't want to admit that you've fallen so far you have to try and cherry pick Salford's best players to stay up!

He's not what's needed but much better than lolohea, if it happens the future doesn't look good for tui, you certainly can't have them in the same team

Gotcha made it clear that Scott Murrell would be his target.

Interesting reading the Salford forum, they rate him very very highly, I think were just going to see how he goes, put it this way I’m more confident of picking up some wins with someone like Lui in the halves rather than what we’ve got

I really can’t get my head around this until I see the bigger picture, assuming there is one.

It’s not impossible that Lui could spark enough creativity to help keep us up. Is it a signing for a table-topping Leeds though going forward?

End of the day there is a difference between who we want and who wants to come. Players can see how we’re performing and we look a long way from being the kind of quality side that quality players want to be part of.

They do. Hes a very good signing no doubt. If true of course

Some of the comments from our fans especially on SM are pretty embarrassing and actually downright disrespectful, Lui IS a good player and we will be a better team with him in, just because we want Hastings or Malony doesn’t mean we can just click our fingers and they will join just because we are Leeds

I’m struggling to get overly excited by this news. We need a general, someone who will direct is around the park, and put on the right play at the right time, whilst also marshalling the defence (it seems that Walker is yet to learn this, and Tui simply doesn’t speak).

I don’t think that Lui is that kind of player, so whilst he’s more creative than what we have now, he doesn’t actually solve the problem.

Who’s available that does though?