PNG played better with Wabo at dummy half.

Well he' here now so let's get behind him. Hope we use him as a full starting close to 80 min hooker.
Welcome and good luck

Well said he is a Rhino now therefore we support him. It is not possible to judge a player from 1 performance, especially one where his team had no direction from either of the half backs. IIRC he created a very good PNG try last night.

How Fatboy can question our CEO's aspirations after he has steered us away from oblivion to 1 challenge cup, 3 WCC titles, 2 League leaders shields and 6 titles is beyond me

You know what - you're right. He is who we have.

...and what the fekk do I know? When I found out we'd take Lunt on loan I had much the same apathy, but the end of the season I was screaming for his signature.

I hope the same is true this time. At least we all have a good reason to get behind PNG on friday now (apart from them being massive underdogs and a win for PNG could help England). Could it be possible that the south stand could shake the kiwis up a bit?

Given the article on the Rhinos website GH seems to be focused on the re-development of Headingley at the minute.

Player of the year at Wakefield last year.

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.